Yoko Li
Yoko Li is a partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen HorowitzAndreessen HorowitzAndreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. It invests from the seed stage through the growth stage and provides operational support to its portfolio companies.Open the full entry focusing on developer tools, infrastructure, AI and creative tools; an engineer by background, she is also known for cartoons that explain technical concepts.
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Key facts
February 23, 2026Publishing the TetrisBench Experiment
On February 23, 2026, she published an article on the Andreessen Horowitz website about TetrisBench, a project she built in which large language models compete at Tetris; by her account, the idea came while playing Tetris 99 on a Nintendo Switch and wanting to play against a system that reasons differently from a human.[1]
As of October 2026: Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
The Andreessen Horowitz website describes her as a partner at the firm focusing on developer tools, infrastructure, AI and creative tools; she sits on the boards of Resend and Relace and is a board observer at Mintlify, Clerk, Phota Labs and Inngest.[2]
Her GitHub bio describes her as a cartoonist, engineer, product manager and investor who works at a16z during the day and draws cartoons and writes code at night, with San Francisco listed as her location.[3]
Career Background
According to the Andreessen Horowitz website, before joining the firm she worked as an engineer at AppDynamics, as a founding engineer and product manager at Transposit, and as head of product for Terraform Cloud at HashiCorp.[2]
Open-Source Projects and Cartoons
Open-source projects she has built include AI Town, AI-tamago, companion-app and local-ai-stack. AI Town is a deployable starter kit for a virtual town where AI characters live and socialize, inspired by the paper “Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior” and released under the MIT license.[2][4]
She posts cartoons on X that explain, and poke fun at, technical concepts.[2]
Related Organizations, Websites, and Public Accounts
Andreessen Horowitz: Official website: https://a16z.com/ (opens in a new window)[2]
Personal website: Public link: https://yoko.dev/ (opens in a new window)[3]
X: Public account: https://x.com/stuffyokodraws (opens in a new window)[2][3]
LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yokoli/ (opens in a new window)[2]
GitHub: Public account: https://github.com/ykhli (opens in a new window)[3]