Katy Yam's investing work at Real Ventures sits alongside a wide range of other roles, including leading TEDxMontréal since 2013, serving on the boards of Loto-Québec, MT Lab, and Réseau Capital, and running FounderFuel as General Manager, after earlier building product, marketing, and business intelligence teams across AI, gaming, telecom, and nonprofits and helping scale Element AI before its acquisition. She's known for connecting people as much as picking companies, having redesigned FounderFuel as a hybrid national program so founders across Canada don't have to relocate to Montréal, working directly with groups like Rep Matters to bring in underrepresented founders, and encouraging teams to build genuine relationships with sponsors instead of standard transactional deals.