# Valerie Bertele

> Valerie Bertele is a seed investor at Yellow Rocks! backing Software and Real Estate. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Yellow Rocks!](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yellow-rocks-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vbertele/

Valerie Bertele is a seed investor at Yellow Rocks! in San Francisco focused on Software and Real Estate. Early Stage Investor, Individual/Angel. Late-stage fundraising from Family Offices, Sovereign Funds and Institutional Investors.LinkedIn Top Voice https://www.linkedin.com/in/valerieberteleValerie, a global leader and advocate for female empowerment, she is also an angel investor, VC and an international speaker. She isan alumna of Stanford Graduate School of Business, Nankai University and was previously with Google and Boston Scientific. Currently, she serves as the CEO of Yellow Rocks Capital, https://yellowrocks.vc/ - San Francisco based early stage VC fund and accelerator. With a career spanning multiple countries (China, Germany, Belarus, France, Australia) and disciplines, she possesses extensive global multidisciplinary experience.Valerie is also consulting several governments on Innovation, Investing and building a GovTech community.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 100% |
| Real Estate | 1 | 50% |
| Information Services | 1 | 50% |
| Property Development | 1 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 50% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 1 | 50% |
| Russian Federation | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| InTone | As businesses grow, scaling human call operations becomes increasingly difficult - hiring, training, and maintaining quality across hundreds of agents takes time. InTone makes it easy to scale with AI voice agents built for sales. They qualify leads, book meetings, follow up, and speak with human-like tone and flow - running 500+ calls at once,24/7. We plug it into your CRM, dialer, and workflows to scale sales without extra headcount. Currently powering over 1M calls daily in healthcare, finance, insurance, retail, and more, we deliver tailored solutions for any industry’s needs. With SOC 2 Type II compliance, we ensure top-tier data security and trust. | $1.7M | Seed | May 11, 2023 |  |
| Jome | Find, compare, and buy your new construction home — all in one place |  | Seed | Apr 01, 2022 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [A.Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Unpopular Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unpopular-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Yellow Rocks!

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Yellow Rocks! invests in fast-growing early-stage companies with a clear global expansion strategy. The fund is focused on companies that are leveraging disruptive technologies and that are ready to reach $1B.Yellow Rocks! is based in San Francisco & Lisbon and we consider ourselves geo-agnostic. We truly believe that brilliant founders canbe found anywhere irrespective of geographical location. That being said right now we are focused on startups from the US and Europe.Yellow Rocks! is formed by successful serial entrepreneurs and investors with a deep understanding of fundraising and company’s development. GPs have a 10+ years of track record in well known organizations (World Bank, IFC, Google, EPAM), universities (MIT, Harvard, Stanford) and startup ecosystems (Y Combinator, TheEngine, TechStars, MassChallenge, 500 startups). Our team is distributed around different countries including the USA, Portugal and Armenia.

4 contacts available at Yellow Rocks!.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sergei Bogdanov | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sergey-bogdanov |
| Valerie Bertele | Partner, Head of San-Francisco office | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valerie-bertele-01fc |
| Roman Beloded | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roman-beloded |
| Sasha Polovinkina | Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sasha-polovinkina |

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## FAQ

### What does Valerie Bertele invest in?

Valerie Bertele invests primarily in Software, Real Estate and Information Services startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Valerie Bertele last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Valerie Bertele closed in May 2023. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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