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 my teens in early stage vc covering food and tech. now i just do the stuff.

areas that currently excite me include:

carbon removal, sustainable agriculture, food systems, transit, decarbonization broadly. basically anything that can get humanity to net-zero and beyond by 2050.

founding team at cascade climate

nov 2023 - present

philanthropically-backed nonprofit accelerating progress in 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
sold to freshprep feb 2023. peko now operates in BC and AB with expanded offerings! wahoooooo

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!