Aya Peterburg backed AI infrastructure early, helping lead S Capital's 2018 investment in Run:ai years before the technology became widely known, and she says she learns more from informal settings like walks on the beach than from formal board meetings. Her outlook is shaped by time spent studying Buddhism in Dharamshala as a young adult and by watching her father navigate the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, and she describes her investing partnership with Haim Sadger as working almost like one synchronized unit rather than two separate people.