The Real Deal

Laela Sturdy has invested in some of the world's most consequential companies, including Stripe, Duolingo (DUOL), Gusto, UiPath (PATH), Unqork, Curated, Webflow, Whatnot, and Chief. She brings hands-on operational hypergrowth experience and deep, cross-sector knowledge to CapitalG. Laela serves on numerous public and private company boards and is known for the high level of engagement, wide-ranging expertise, and unwavering commitment that she brings to every investment. Laela joined CapitalG shortly after its inception in 2013 from Google, where as managing director of emerging businesses she launched and scaled a number of domestic and international high-growth businesses and held leadership roles on the YouTube and Google Search teams. Before joining Google in 2007, Laela was a consultant at Bain & Company, advising companies across media, retail, CPG and private equity. She holds an AB in Biochemistry from Harvard College, an MSc in Multimedia Systems from Trinity College Dublin and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. An avid basketball player and former captain of her college women’s team, Laela enjoys spending time listening to live music with her wife and kids in San Francisco.

Dami is Head of Value Creation for the SoftBank Opportunity Fund, where she’s charged with helping the portfolio companies grow and scale. At SoftBank, she’s led ecosystem partnerships and value creation work for companies in SB’s $100B Vision Fund including WeWork, Uber, Bytedance, amongst others. She also created and launched SB’s early-stage global accelerator, Emerge, where she led the sourcing, investing and support of companies across health tech, fintech, e-commerce, edtech, and software industries, and sat on the Investment Committee of. She’s invested in 12 companies from this inaugural cohort, which has now gone global. Prior to joining SoftBank, Dami helped lead Intel’s $75B Corporate Finance and Strategy team, and managed an extensive fulfillment operation with more than 100 employees, filling 15,000 orders a day at McMaster-Carr. She’s also led operations and finance teams at Sprint Corporation and Kraft Foods. Dami holds a Finance and Chinese degree from Emory University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.