Yuan Shi

Yuan Shi is an investor with The51 Food and Agtech Fund, a $50M deep-tech, early-stage venture capital fund, investing in outliers solving the planet's most urgent climate challenges through food and agtech innovations. Prior to joining the fund, she was the Director of Creative Destruction Lab – Vancouver providing mentorship and investment to early stage deep-tech and deep-science companies. Under Yuan's leadership, CDL-Vancouver reached over $4 billion of equity value creation from portfolio companies; she also launched the inaugural Climate Stream. She is an environmental engineer by training, and led M&A and investment banking projects. Yuan comes from a 4th generation farming background from an underprivileged community, and was a small-scale farmer in British Columbia.