Sophie Yao

Speaker Bio

Sophie Yao has served as a top executive at international companies such as Intel and Microsoft. Currently, she is committed to building a bridge between start-ups in the Pegasus incubator and the LPs of 500 global large enterprises, through investment and incubation as the link, to jointly develop and build an efficient and professional docking and communication platform for start-ups. Sophie Yao 's investment areas cover AI, the Internet of Things, and quantum computing, and she has invested in projects such as SpaceX and Airbnb, both of which have performed well internationally. Sophie Yao was awarded the "Technology Entrepreneurship Mentor Contribution Award" by the China Association for Technology Entrepreneurship, the "Outstanding Alumni Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship between Australia and China" by the Australian Trade and Investment Commission, and the "Outstanding Young Alumni Award" by the University of Queensland. She was also selected as a "2022 Pioneer Investor" by the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily.