A private investment office, reading the next decade.
Awesome Ventures is the proprietary investment practice of YekSoon Lok. The work tracks structural transitions in technology — how new systems displace old ones, where leverage compounds, what becomes possible at the next layer.
Proprietary, not solicited.
The firm invests its own capital. It is not a Fund Management Company, does not raise from external limited partners, and operates as a personal investment office rather than a registered corporate vehicle.
That structure shapes how we work. The horizon is long. There is no investment committee. We can sit with uncertainty when the work calls for it, and concentrate when conviction warrants. The cost of being wrong is real but bounded; the cost of being early or contrarian is not transferred to anyone else.
The output of the work is sometimes a position, sometimes an essay, often both. The two are continuous.
Operator-investor reading.
The practice draws on twenty-five years across the dot-com, SaaS, mobile, and AI transitions — first as operator, then as investor. The lens is systems-oriented: what the architecture is doing precedes what any individual company is doing.
Five working lenses inform the analysis — venture cognition, AI-native systems, infrastructure shifts, decision systems, technological asymmetry. They are not sectors. They are angles of approach to the same underlying question: where the structure of the next decade is taking shape, and what becomes positionable inside it.
We write our way through it. Most of what becomes a position passes through Research first.
Two partners.
YekSoon Lok
Founding Partner
Twenty-five years across cycles, as operator and as investor. Roles at SilkRoute Ventures (acquired by PCCW) and Reciprocal Inc. (Microsoft); incubator work at Shanghai-Lingang AI Lab; angel positions in 3PAR, RightNow Technologies, Twilio, Cloudflare, RedHat. Watches structural transitions.
Dhiraj Wohra
Partner
Twenty years in hardtech, electronics, and advanced manufacturing across the US, Europe, and Asia. Operator and growth-strategy work at Innovita Partners (UK) on HPC and ML systems; previously built a $3.5M analytics practice at Centum across APAC and MEA.