Summary
Ami Yoshimura is a community builder and scout with eight years of experience designing both physical and digital ecosystems—from membership co-living and hacker/content houses to large-scale DAOs and tech conferences. As co-founder of Verci and a scout at a16z and other funds, she blends early-stage investing with hands-on community operations, having launched initiatives that raised seed capital, sold seven-figure NFT projects, and grew DAOs to tens of thousands of members. Her background spans growth, platform building, and creator-focused strategy at companies like Facebook and StartupTree, and she has a technical curiosity reflected in self-study of DL/ML and a history across Perl, JavaScript, C#, and Python. Based in New York, she’s fascinated by the future of living, cities, and creator economies, and she frequently advises startups while writing publicly about culture and community.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Industrial & Systems Engineering and Music, Bachelor's Industrial & Systems Engineering and Music at Lehigh University
Columbia University
Columbia Secondary School
Japanese