Investing Profile

Alex Taussig(2)

VCInvestor
GP at Lightspeed. Investing in consumer and SMB tech across Americas and Europe.
lsvp.com/team/alex-taussig/San Francisco, California
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$3.0M - $20.0M
$15.0M
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CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Archive
Series BFeb 2025$30M
Series ADec 2022$15M
SeedJan 2022$8M
$62M
Co-investors: Scott Friend (Bain Capital Ventures), Sara Du (Greylock), Beth Ferreira (FirstMark Capital), Justin Mares (Long Journey Ventures), Eileen Waris (Energize Ventures), Dawn Dobras (Operator Collective), Sarah Smith (Sarah Smith Fund), Hunter Mcnabb (9Yards Capital), Kerry Whorton Cooper (aCrew Capital), Andrew Jones, Sam Corcos, Karim Atiyeh, JD Ross, Steven Alan
Table22
Series AOct 2024$11M
$11M
Co-investors: Nicole Johnson (Forerunner Ventures), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), David Barber (Astanor Ventures), Taylor Greene (Twelve Below), Jack Altman (Alt Capital), Ron Rofe (Rainfall Ventures)
Vinted
Secondary MarketOct 2024$370M
Series FMay 2021$300M
Series ENov 2019$140M
$900M
Co-investors: Anoushka Vaswani (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Deven Parekh (Insight Partners), Bradley Twohig (Smash Capital)
Found
Series CJun 2024$46M
Series BFeb 2022$60M
$250M
Co-investors: Justin Overdorff (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital), Josephine Chen (Sequoia Capital), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Frederique Dame (GV (Google Ventures)), Jack Abraham (Atomic), Julia Taylor Cheek (NextGen Venture Partners), Lauren Farleigh (Mischief Venture Capital), Allen Mask (WestCap), Fidji Simo
Astrid
SeedSep 2023$8M
$10M
Co-investors: Wesley Chan (FPV Fund), Carine Magescas (AngelPad), Thomas Korte (AngelPad)
Latern
Pre SeedFeb 2023$1M
$7M
Co-investors: Arif Janmohamed (Lightspeed Venture Partners)
Muni Tienda
Series AMar 2022$20M
$20M
Co-investors: Hans Tung (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Florian Hagenbuch (Canary Ventures), Fabian Gomez Gutierrez, Felipe Villamarin, Simon Borrero
Faire
Series GNov 2021$600M
Series FJun 2021$260M
Series EOct 2020$170M
Series DOct 2019$150M
Series CDec 2018$60M
Series BDec 2018$40M
$1.7B
Co-investors: Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital), Ravi Gupta (Sequoia Capital), Jess Lee (Sequoia Capital), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Brian Pokorny (SV Angel), Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), James Ephrati (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Anu Hariharan (Y Combinator), Jeff Crowe (Norwest Venture Partners), Lauren Farleigh (Mischief Venture Capital)
Partner Lightspeed Venture Partners2016 - Present
Global Shaper, San Francisco Hub World Economic Forum2011 - 2016
Partner Highland Capital Partners2009 - 2016
Summer Associate RockPort Capital Partners2008 - 2008
Summer Associate McKinsey & Company2007 - 2007
Research & Teaching Assistant MIT2005 - 2007
Summer Analyst DiMaio Ahmad Capital2005 - 2005
Harvard Business School MBA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology M.S. Materials Science & Engineering
Harvard University A.B. Physics
Horace Mann High School