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Yaqi Grover
Yaqi Gao Grover is a Partner at Lever VC, a venture capital fund with over $150M in assets under management that invests in early-stage food and agriculture companies globally. At Lever VC, she focuses on identifying and supporting high-potential startups transforming the food system, working closely with founders from seed through growth to help scale innovative businesses.
She began her career on Wall Street as a trader and financial structurer at Citigroup and Morgan Stanley. In these roles, she developed and managed complex financial products and investment strategies and worked with large institutional portfolios and multi-billion-dollar mandates across global markets.
Yaqi holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and is a CFA charterholder. She has a strong interest in impact-driven entrepreneurship and farm animal welfare.
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Strategic Capital: How CVCs Empower Innovation Beyond Investment20-Mar-2026Main Stage
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