Caterina Fake

CEO and Founder in San Francisco, California

Caterina Fake

CEO and Founder in San Francisco, California

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Caterina Fake is a partner at Yes VC, a pre-seed and seed investment fund.

Previously, Fake was the cofounder of Hunch, a search and discovery engine, and cofounder of Flickr, the popular photo sharing site. Hunch sought to build the "taste graph" of the Internet, mapping every user on the Internet to every entity, and their affinity for that entity. It was acquired by eBay in 2011. Flickr was one of the principal "Web 2.0" sites, integrating features such as social networking, community open APIs, tagging, and algorithms that surfaced the most popular content. It was acquired by Yahoo! in 2005.

Fake was Chairwoman of the Board of Etsy, Board of Directors of CreativeLive, and serves on the Advisory Board of the UC Berkeley School of Information. She was named to the Time 100 most influential people in the world, and has received Honorary Doctorates from RISD and The New School.

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    • Vassar College
    • Rhode Island School of Design
    • The New School