Managing Partner at CapitalG · Joined 2013
View Live Interactive Profile →Laela Sturdy joined CapitalG shortly after Alphabet founded the growth fund in 2013, bringing years of internal Google leadership experience - she had led the company's emerging businesses group and held senior roles on both YouTube and Google Search. That internal operating background is central to CapitalG's pitch to founders: its investors aren't just financiers, they're people who've run large-scale consumer and enterprise products at Google itself. Sturdy has become one of the firm's most visible Managing Partners, with Duolingo standing as her clearest public outcome - she backed the language-learning company years before its 2021 Nasdaq IPO and continues to sit on its board.