Rachel Lam

Co-founder and Managing Partner of Imagination Capital (www.imaginationvc.com), an early stage venture fund seeking to back companies that are poised to capture an industry shift, with a particular focus on institutional seed stage companies. Firm was launched with co-founder, Richard D. Parsons (former CEO of Time Warner Inc.) in November 2017. Rachel Lam currently serves on the public company boards of Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI) and Porch Group (NASDAQ: PRCH). She was named to Gold House's inaugural A100 List in 2018, honoring the most impactful AAPIs in culture annually (https://goldhouse.org/a100/), and in 2024 she was recognized by BoardProspects as one of 100 AAPI Board Members Making a Difference. She founded the Time Warner Investments group in 2003, and was head of the strategic investing arm of Time Warner Inc. for 14 years until early 2017. Under Ms. Lam's leadership, the venture capital group of Time Warner invested over $325MM in 54 companies. She has led numerous investments in early stage digital media companies, and managed Time Warner's investments in and exits from many portfolio companies, including: Maker Studios (sold to Disney), Bluefin Labs (sold to Twitter), Admeld (sold to Google), Playspan (sold to Visa), MediaVast (sold to Getty Images), CrowdStar (sold to Glu Mobile), Kosmix (sold to Walmart), iSocket (sold to the Rubicon Project), ScanScout (sold to Tremor Video), Turbine (sold to Warner Bros), IPO Glu Mobile (NASDAQ: GLUU) and IPO Tremor Video (NYSE: TRMR). Additionally, Ms. Lam was an officer at Quetzal/Chase Capital Partners, and at CSFB Equity Partners. Prior to that, she was Director, Office of the President at Time Warner Inc., where she worked with Imagination Capital co-founder, Richard D. Parsons, on corporate transactions and strategic initiatives. She received a B.S. degree in industrial engineering and operations research from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School.