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Sebastian Duesterhoeft

Partner Lightspeed Venture Partners

San Francisco Bay Area

VC
Investor

Invests in

Stages:

Series B
Seed

  • Min Investment:

    $3,000,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $20,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $15,000,000.00

Skills

Private Equity
Mergers & Acquisitions
Venture Capital
Valuation
Finance
Growth Equity
Investment Banking

Education

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Investments

Abridge

Series C

Total Funding: $210M

Deliverect

Series D

Total Funding: $230M

GitLab

Series E

Total Funding: $310M

Work Experience

LV
Lightspeed Venture Partners

2023

  • Partner

    2023

    Lightspeed Venture Partners is a conviction-based venture capital firm. I'm a partner on our Growth Team, which has led investments in companies like Abridge, Affirm, Arctic Wolf, Axonius, BetterUp, Carta, Cato Networks, ClickUp, Faire, Grafana, Offchain Labs, Personio, TripActions, Vinted, Wiz and many more.

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Coatue Management

2018 - 2023

  • General Partner

    2021 - 2023

    Investments: Airtable, UiPath, Databricks, Confluent, Snowflake, Gitlab, Kustomer, Snyk, Cato Networks, Lacework

  • Partner

    2019 - 2020

  • Principal

    2018 - 2018

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Silver Lake

2013 - 2018

  • Principal

    2013 - 2018

MS
Morgan Stanley

2010 - 2013

  • Investment Banking Analyst

    2012 - 2013

    Analyst in the Technology Investment Banking group.

  • Investment Banking Analyst

    2010 - 2012

    Analyst in the M&A group.

MS
Morgan Stanley

2009 - 2009

  • Investment Banking Summer Analyst

    2009 - 2009

    Summer Analyst in the M&A group.