Parable — Seed VC Firm

Anne is the founder and GP of Parable, complemented by relationships across the old and new guard of Silicon Valley, as well as industry insiders in power centers around the world. Prior to Parable, she invested in legendary consumer technology companies at a16z, including Whatnot, Kindred and Cider. She's had a front row seat to the founder journey, supporting her husband in building Amplitude (NASDAQ: AMPL) from 0 to IPO.

Erin partners with founders building generational consumer and prosumer AI companies. Before Parable, she did frontier science philanthropy at Schmidt Futures and founded FacePrint, an AI platform for diagnosing neurodegenerative disease from video. She studied Symbolic Systems at Stanford and trained as a computational neuroscientist through research at UCSF, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and the Weizmann Institute.

YQ is both a personal and professional connoisseur of global consumer culture, passionate about cutting-edge behavioral shifts. A former founder of an anime e-commerce company and most recently a strategist behind TikTok Shop, she has gone from zero-to-one building to scaling one of the world's fastest-growing consumer platforms. Earlier, she was a McKinsey consultant and began her career in investment banking, covering growth-stage technology companies, at Credit Suisse.