Laurie Yoler

Partner at Playground Global, Innovation & Technology Board Governance Leader

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2026
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Board Member
Jun 2026
Voltera builds and operates the high‑throughput infrastructure networks that enable autonomous fleets to launch faster and scale smarter. We develop and operate next-generation hubs that combine charging, servicing, staging, and operations — so fleets can maximize uptime, accelerate deployment, and grow reliably across the globe.
Board Member
Jan 2021
Saltbox solves the hardest parts of running an ecommerce business with human-centric logistic solutions. With a purpose-built network of flexible warehouses in major metropolitan areas, fulfillment centers and on-site services across the country, Saltbox addresses the most critical challenges ecommerce entrepreneurs face when starting, growing, and scaling their businesses.
Board Member
Dec 2019
The Leaf Logistics platform connects shippers, providers, and partners to deliver the future transportation market. The Leaf platform allows all participants to gain network efficiencies and unlock a forward view of tomorrow's transportation market. Today, Leaf technologies like the Leaf Adapt continuous optimization solution and Leaf Flex committed contracts allow users to engage in the network and build their most resilient transportation plan.
Investor
Mar 2013
Broadway Angels is an angel investment group made up of world-class investors and business executives who happen to be women. We each have decades of experience investing in and managing some of the best technology companies in the world. All of us are or have been General Partners in top tier venture capital firms and, or Senior Executives in leading technology companies. We have built remarkable careers and portfolios by cultivating a deep network of relationships with amazing entrepreneurs and executives. Broadway Angels invests in the very best people and ideas in early stage startups. The majority of our investments are in information technology, an area of deep expertise for most of us, but we are also open to exploring other investment opportunities. We are great team players and work well with other angels and venture capital firms. We typically do not take board seats but serve as excellent advisors and sounding boards to management teams. We have deep expertise in the areas of strategy, marketing, operations management, corporate governance, fundraising and recruiting. We believe corporate governance is essential to the long-term success of any company. While we are all women investors, 60% of our founders are men and 40% are women. We invest in the best entrepreneurs. Among our portfolio companies are: Other Machine Co, SupportPay, RocksBox, UrbanSitter, GemShare, Strevus, and Prism Skylabs.
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2026
Board Member
Jun 2026
Voltera builds and operates the high‑throughput infrastructure networks that enable autonomous fleets to launch faster and scale smarter. We develop and operate next-generation hubs that combine charging, servicing, staging, and operations — so fleets can maximize uptime, accelerate deployment, and grow reliably across the globe.
Board Observer
Feb 2026
Bodyport is on a mission to empower every person to live free from complex chronic conditions — by delivering actionable insights gleaned from unique health signals and simple, at-home experiences. We’re advancing the standard of care for complex chronic conditions like heart failure. By integrating a sophisticated biomarker platform into simple, easy-to-use devices, we help patients and their care teams better predict, understand, and intervene in changes to heart health — keeping people healthier and out of the hospital. With one simple step, our platform noninvasively measures a broad spectrum of hemodynamic biomarkers to assess heart function and fluid status, giving every person at-home access to comprehensive health insights. In addition, we’re exploring the application of our platform on a range of other chronic conditions. Learn more about us at bodyport.com
2021
Board Member
Jan 2021
Saltbox solves the hardest parts of running an ecommerce business with human-centric logistic solutions. With a purpose-built network of flexible warehouses in major metropolitan areas, fulfillment centers and on-site services across the country, Saltbox addresses the most critical challenges ecommerce entrepreneurs face when starting, growing, and scaling their businesses.
2020
Advisory Board Member
Jan 2020
TTI/Vanguard is a unique forum for senior-level executives that links strategic technology planning to business success. In private conferences that are part classroom, part think-tank, and part laboratory, our members—corporate and government leaders, entrepreneurs, researchers, and academics—explore emerging and potentially disruptive technologies to assess their impact on organizations, policy, and society. Five times annually and with a wide-angle view, TTI/Vanguard heightens thinking about technological possibilities. We futurescan. We focus on unanticipated sources of change and evaluate their transformative promise. In dynamic, highly interactive sessions, debate is stimulated and breakthrough ideas flourish.
2019
Board Member
Dec 2019
The Leaf Logistics platform connects shippers, providers, and partners to deliver the future transportation market. The Leaf platform allows all participants to gain network efficiencies and unlock a forward view of tomorrow's transportation market. Today, Leaf technologies like the Leaf Adapt continuous optimization solution and Leaf Flex committed contracts allow users to engage in the network and build their most resilient transportation plan.
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