LR

Lauren Reeder

Partner at Sequoia Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2021

    Partnering with founders at the earliest stages to help build legendary companies.

2020 - 2021

  • Director of Product

    2020 - 2021

2016 - 2021

  • Director of Product - Core Products + Infrastructure

    2016 - 2021

    Building the future of Segment + Twilio's Customer Data Platform & Infrastructure. I led product and engineering teams teams across our core product. Some snapshots of products my teams have built included below.

2018 - 2021

  • Managing Partner

    2018 - 2021

    A new fund backed by First Round Capital investing in rising talent, typically starting their first company. Our investments have grown to over $1B+ in market cap from our pre-seed investments over the course of 2 years with investments in developer tooling, compensation platforms, the future of content publishing, and more. Investments I've led include https://www.pave.com/, https://everything.substack.com/, and others.

2014 - 2016

  • Managing Partner

    2014 - 2016

    I led the Philadelphia team as the managing partner for our investment team. We invest in the best student-run startups across the nation and are backed by First Round Capital.

2015 - 2015

  • Venture and Growth Fund Associate

    2015 - 2015

  • Quantitative Analyst

    2014 - 2014

    Developed quant trading strategies to take advantage of holding company mis-pricings and loan restructure lifecycles in the banking industry.

2013 - 2014

  • Software Engineer

    2013 - 2014

    Founding engineer - learned a lot about just about every part of starting, building, and running a company while having a great time building out our product.