Yalda Aoukar is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Bracket Capital, a global private markets investment platform with offices in Los Angeles, London, and Doha.

After a successful career in investment banking and private equity across London and the Middle East, she co-founded Bracket Capital in 2016. As one of the very few female General Partners and founders in venture capital worldwide, Yalda has led the firm to top-tier performance, deploying more than $1.5 billion into disruptive, high-growth technology companies across AI, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Healthtech, Spacetech, and other frontier sectors. Her work focuses on identifying and backing category-defining companies at the growth and late stages, supporting founders who are reshaping global industries.

Yalda also serves as President of the Bracket Foundation, the firm’s philanthropic arm, where she champions the use of technology for social good, particularly in online child safety. In 2019, she launched a pioneering initiative exploring how artificial intelligence can combat online child abuse, which led to a strategic partnership with the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and a multi-year collaboration with the UAE government to equip law enforcement with advanced technological tools to protect children in digital environments. Yalda proudly sits on the board of Umanitek, a Swiss-based AI company whose Guardian agent uses a decentralized knowledge graph to enable privacy-preserving collaboration between platforms, NGOs, and law enforcement to help detect and prevent harmful content online.

A committed advocate for women’s empowerment and inclusive innovation, Yalda advises governments and policymakers on digital transformation across key sectors including biotechnology, food security, AI integration, and education technology. She sits on the board of the UN’s AI for Safer Children Initiative, which she helped launch in 2020, and serves on the advisory board of the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Accelerator.

Named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2024, Yalda holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School. She divides her time between London, Los Angeles, and the Middle East, driven by a commitment to advancing breakthrough technologies and building a safer, more innovative, and more equitable future.