Shaorui Li

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Core Fellow

G Fellows

Mar 2026 - Current (8 months)

Deal Partner

Boardy

Jan 2026 - Current (10 months)

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Investment Associate

Wharton Impact Venture Associates

Oct 2025 - Current (1 year 1 month)

With oversight and training from Wharton Social Impact Initiative, source and conduct rigorous due diligence on high-impact environmental and social start-ups, and then help facilitate companies’ drive to raise capital with potential investors.

VC In Residence

LvlUp Ventures

Sep 2025 - Current (1 year 2 months)

Serve as an analyst, engaging in outreach and sourcing of innovative founders and startups. Perform initial due diligence and evaluated product traction (retention, payback, pipeline velocity) and flagged key risks/inflection points before referring to investment committee. Engage with campus entrepreneurship community to source innovation and act as an ambassador.

Advisory Board Member

AllPeople Marketplace

Sep 2025 - Current (1 year 2 months)

I serve as an advisor for AllPeople, a marketplace focused on sustainability and ethical sourcing, while providing customers with high-quality goods. Founded by Bill Wollrab, co-founder of The Yard House restaurant chain. With my investing, VC, and startup expertise, I help with fundraising and preparing AllPeople for VC rounds. I contribute to AllPeople's growth by forging connections and evaluating the business needs and strategies.

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Founder/President

Altus Strategies

Aug 2025 - Current (1 year 3 months)

I run Wharton's first student-run startup accelerator, pooling together talented students from various backgrounds to help solo-preneurs and early stage founders validate, test, and get themselves off the ground. If you're a founder, reach out!

Venture Capital Scout

GoAhead Ventures

Aug 2025 - Current (1 year 3 months)

Source and meet with founders in various tech industries, innovating to make the world a better place. Setup initial meetings and conduct due diligence to determine investability. Refer potential investments to the general partner when appropriate.

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Member

Joseph Wharton Scholars

Aug 2024 - Current (2 years 3 months)

Serve as part of Wharton's selective honors program, completing honors business classes and being exposed to different opportunities and skills in the business world.

Growth

AfterQuery

Jan 2026

Promote short and long term growth by connecting qualified experts to AQ's talent pool, as well as facilitate potential partnerships.

Intern

Encord

Oct 2025 - Dec 2025 (3 months)

Worked with a team of peers to conduct comprehensive market research, encompassing the AI data labeling industry. Provided insights and competitive analysis, which were ultimately presented at the end of the semester. Conducted competitor research by speaking with former employees of AI data labeling companies to learn about GTM strategy and the nuances of the competitive landscape.

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VC Intern

Vaomi

Sep 2025 - Mar 2026 (7 months)

Source startups with high growth potential that aren't necessarily ready for a VC check, and refer them to VAOMI's internal network of investors and plethora of AI-fundraising channels. Whatever you're building, I want to hear it! Regardless of whether you're ready to raise an actual round or not. With VAOMI, I'm helping to redefine what it means to fundraise and bring more brilliant ideas to life.

Venture Partner

Clearco

Sep 2025 - Mar 2026 (7 months)

Assist in sourcing promising e-commerce and CPG brands to a fund with over $3B+ invested Conduct initial screening calls to cool people trying to build cool stuff and change the world

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Consulting Intern

Jun 2025 - Aug 2025 (3 months)

Act as a consultant for an EdTech company seeking to find useful innovations in the world through the ancient game of Go. Assisted with the international expansion of their kindergarten program, where they seek to implement Go as an enrichment program to improve the cognitive abilities of young children. I review marketing materials and presented business and market knowledge as I am one of the only native speakers. Conduct market research and create innovative ways to help HJJ Go grow

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Startup & Venture Capital Intern

Feb 2025 - Aug 2025 (7 months)

Startup Grind is the world's largest community of entrepreneurs across 600+ chapters in over 125 countries with a membership of over 5 million technologists, founders, investors, and ecosystem builders. In this role, I work to connect all these stakeholders globally.

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Scout

Feb 2025 - Aug 2025 (7 months)

Seamless is a platform created by leading enterprises from diverse industries. It enables startups to partner with select global enterprises to build a future that is good for everyone. We believe that thinking, learning, and working together across traditional industry and system silos is the most effective way to deliver innovation that improves core products and systems that touch people's lives every day. In this role, I source innovation, innovators, and startups for global enterprise organizations that are working in the areas of ESG, impact, human-centered health, Industry 4.0, software, and hard tech.

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Head of Growth

Certitude education

Sep 2024 - May 2025 (9 months)

• Spearheaded outreach initiatives in the Philadelphia region, leveraging personal experiences as a first-generation, low-income student.
• Acted as the primary advisor for a platform that connects high school students with AI-driven college counseling.
• Contributed to the successful pivot of certitude to a browser extension, enhancing AI workflows for users. Brought certitude to VIP-X, Wharton's accelerator, and most notably, the Fall '25 cohort of YCombinator.

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President

May 2023 - Sep 2024 (1 year 5 months)

Founded a mentorship program linking underclassmen with upperclassmen and college students.
• Recruited 40+ high school senior and college student mentors from various high schools and universities as well as 40+ mentees from various high schools across Philadelphia Led management team of 7 students to create a robust program, assisting mentees throughout high school and with securing opportunities, tutoring resources, and networking Marketed organization, including designing the website, overseeing social media, and cold emails to universities, admissions officers, and local high schools Secured and managed grant of $2,500 to host events and purchase educational resources for mentees Created meaningful impact within high schools to gi

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Co-Founder

Oct 2022 - Aug 2024 (1 year 11 months)

Founded a program that provides on-demand recordings of music pieces and fundamentals for young musicians and Philadelphia music teachers Developed, managed, and marketed program to Philadelphia teachers and musicians Recruited mentors, made recordings of scales and pieces for requests

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