resume | arielle lok

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hi, my name is arielle lok and i'm an:

ex-founder planting seeds to create a better world for future generations. i built western canada's most sustainable grocery service and spent 15% of my life in early stage vc covering food, general enterprise tech, and commerce

areas that currently excite me include:

sustainable agriculture, urban vertical farming, decarbonizing buildings, CO2 transformation, energy transformation. basically anything that can get humanity to net-zero and beyond by 2050.

founding team at cascade climate

nov 2023 - present

open system climate interventions

in the last few years, i was:

co-founder, coo/cfo at peko [acq. freshprep]

jan 2021 - mar 2023

built canada's leading 'imperfect' online grocer. rescued over 300,000lbs of produce and saved ~$1m for our users
bootstrapped and scaled company to $[redacted] in ARR, ran all operations on/off ground, directly managed 12+ employees, lead business partnerships, legal compliance, B2B sales, and kept business alive when it did not want to live

corporate development at shopify ventures

jun 2021 - dec 2022

sourced and successfully closed shopify's first international investments. conducted technical product diligence through customer and engineering calls. ran market/TAM sizing for regions in early stages of digitalizing payments & commerce
notable transactions: WATI Series B. Nomba Series A. many anti-portfolio deals. more at shopify.vc
main point of contact with 30+ portfolio companies

venture analyst/community at ripple ventures

jan 2021 - dec 2021

venture analyst at district ventures capital

sep 2020 - apr 2021

canadian consumer deals in an investment team of 7 under arlene dickinson's (dragon's den) $100M fund
notable transactions: FODY Foods Series B, Sapsucker Series A, Vertiball Pre-seed

ambassador at children first canada

nov 2017 - jul 2019

cowrote the canadian children's charter (canadian equivalent to US constitution), resulting in the additional allocation of $100M+ to youth-focused investments and food subsidies for children specifically in canada's 2019 federal fiscal budget

i barely studied at:

mcgill university

2019 - 2023

senior stock chair of the mcgill investment club
creator/head of lettuce at the mcgill lettuce club. no biggie.

but i like this stuff most about myself:

silly dev stuff: comp20<3, trivial, o-range julep, covemail
interests: ex-competitive gamer, mechanical keyboards, ssb melee, haruki murakami novels, recreational mathematics, capybaras, and recently pokemon tcg!
awards: RBC's women of influence 2023, BC 30 under 30 2022, DMZ's women of the year 2022, $100k in scholarships & an awesome full ride [that i may or may have not lost in my 4th year] to mcgill!