Yatong Li

Managing Director, Teachers' Venture Growth @ Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

About

I’m a venture capital investor with close to a decade of experience across both fund investing and direct deals. At Teachers’ Venture Growth (Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan), I lead our global venture capital and growth equity fund investment program and also support sourcing direct opportunities alongside our GPs. My focus is on building lasting partnerships and backing category-defining technology companies. Before TVG, I spent nearly ten years at Sixty Degree Capital, where I led the firm’s fund and direct co-investment strategy with a four-person team. Over that time, I led investments in companies such as Cato Networks, Grafana Labs, Aqua Security, Arctic Wolf, Cyberhaven, Paperspace (Acquired by Digital Ocean), Schrödinger (NASDAQ: SDGR), Docker, Pragma, Navan, Grubmarket, Lime, DataGrail, and MioVision. With a background in Finance and Economics and experience living and working across North America, Asia, and New Zealand, I bring a global perspective and a strong analytical foundation to venture investing. I’m passionate about partnering with exceptional managers and founders who are shaping the future of technology.

Country

Canada

City

Toronto

Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Skill

Venture Capital, Financial Modeling, Financial Analysis, Valuation, Data Analysis, Economics, Bloomberg Terminal, Capital IQ, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Teamwork, Morningstar, ThomsonOne, Pitchbook

Experience

Managing Director, Teachers' Venture Growth

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

2025-4 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Teachers' Venture Growth (TVG) invests directly in innovative late-stage companies (Series B onward) that are using technology to shape a better future. As active investors, we partner with founders and management teams to provide global expertise, resources, and guidance - rolling up our sleeves to support them in fulfilling their bold visions. While we prefer to lead rounds, we also participate alongside like-minded partners. In addition, TVG selectively invests indirectly through fund commitments with some of the world’s leading venture capital and growth equity firms. Our investments span North America, Europe, and Asia. At TVG, I lead the global venture capital and growth equity fund investment program, building long-term partnerships with top-tier managers and supporting direct investment collaboration with our partners.

Member, Leadership Development Advisory Council

Capitalize for Kids

2023-3 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Capitalize for Kids is a Toronto-based non-profit dedicated to improving the child and youth mental health system. We partner with service providers to tackle capacity and access challenges, offering pro bono advisory support and innovative funding solutions. We bring people together through events like the C4K Investors Conference and Bay Street Games, raising awareness and resources so more young people can get the mental health care they need, when they need it.

Managing Director

Sixty Degree Capital

2017 - 2025-4 · 8 yrs

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Led Sixty Degree Capital's technology investing efforts focusing on Enterprise Software, Cybersecurity, and Data/Cloud Infrastructure. Select investments: Schrödinger (NASDAQ: SDGR), Paperspace (Acquired by Digital Ocean), Grafana Labs, Cato Networks, Aqua Security, Arctic Wolf, Cyberhaven, Docker, Pragma, Navan, Grubmarket, Lime, DataGrail, MioVision. Sixty Degree Capital is a global investment firm based in Toronto, Canada, investing directly in high growth private companies across their lifecycle. Established in 2017, Sixty Degree Capital is a long term investor with over US$700M in assets and investments across North America, Europe and Asia.