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Alex Taussig
General Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
San Francisco, California
Overview
Alex Taussig is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, specializing in investing in consumer and SMB tech companies across the Americas and Europe. He has successfully invested in companies like Yaysay, Archive, Daily Harvest, and Zola, demonstrating a strong track record in identifying and supporting successful startups in various sectors.
With an impressive educational background including an MBA from Harvard Business School and experience serving on the boards of companies like Vinted and All Day Kitchens, Alex has established himself as a seasoned investor and leader in the venture capital industry, contributing to the growth and success of numerous innovative startups.
Work Experience
Partner
2016 - Current
Lightspeed is a global venture capital firm with over $18B of committed capital. Over the past two decades, the Lightspeed team has backed and helped build more than 200 companies globally, most since inception or Series A. Recent IPOs include AFRM, APPD, DUO, FINV, FTSV, GD, HNST, MULE, NTNX, NTRA, PDD, SEDG, SNAP, SFIX, and ZS. The firm currently invests across the US, Israel, India, China, Europe, LATAM, and Southeast Asia. I co-lead the Lightspeed Consumer team, as well as the firm's emerging LATAM practice. I spend most of my time investing in marketplaces and SMB platforms/networks.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
Board Observer
2023
Keychain aims to connect packaged food brands with reliable manufacturers in the first true platform and marketplace for CPG manufacturing. Lightspeed led the company's Series Seed round in August 2023.
Keychain is a CPG production platform that collaborates with retailers and brands.
Raised $35,500,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, BoxGroup, Schreiber Foods, General Mills and SV Angel.
Board Member
2023
Yaysay is building a personalized, feed-based shopping experience for discovering off-priced products. Lightspeed led the company's $10.3M seed round in June 2023.
Yaysay is an AI-powered shopping app.
Raised $10,300,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Board Member
2022
Vinted is the largest online international P2P marketplace in Europe dedicated to second-hand fashion, with a growing member base of over 75 million registered members spanning 18 markets. With a mission to make second-hand the first choice worldwide, Vinted enables consumers to sell and buy second-hand clothes and lifestyle items from each other, helping give those items a second or even third life. Lightspeed originally led the company's Series E in 2019.
Board Observer
2021
Trendsi is the one stop supply chain solution for global fashion brands. Lightspeed led the company’s Series A in December 2021.
Trendsi is an online fashion B2B marketplace that makes it easy for sellers to build their businesses by providing wholesale inventory.
Raised $30,000,000.00 from Bradley Horowitz, Liquid 2 Ventures, Eric Yuan, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Decent Capital, Sierra Ventures, Peterson Ventures, Basis Set Ventures, Footwork and Shan-Lyn Ma.
Investor
2021
Found is a modern financial platform for self-employed workers. I led our Series B investment in December 2021, alongside Founders Fund and Sequoia.
Found is a fintech company that provides business banking services for self-employed people.
Raised $121,199,997.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures.
Board Member
2021
Archive is the first operating system for branded resale. I led the company's seed round on behalf of Lightspeed.
Archive is a technology company that builds innovative, scalable, and profitable resale businesses for global brands.
Raised $24,335,000.00 from Fernbrook Capital Management LLC, Lisa Bougie, Wendy Yang, G9 Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Dawn Dobras, Adrienne Lazarus, Julie Bornstein and Kerry Cooper.
Board Member
2021
All Day Kitchens is the leading distributed kitchen infrastructure platform for independent restaurants in the US. Lightspeed led the company's Series C financing of $65M, and I joined the board on the firm's behalf.
Investor
2021
Frubana is building the "everything store" for LATAM's restaurant industry. Lightspeed participated in the company's $65M Series B in May 2021.
Board Member
2020
Outschool is the leading marketplace for live, online classes for K-12 students. In August 2020, the company had over 50,000 classes on its platform from thousands of teachers and grew 20x over the prior year. Teachers on the platform routinely make 3x what they earn in the classroom. The company also contributes to Outschool.org which allows students to take classes for free while still paying teachers. I led the company's $45M Series B financing on behalf of Lightspeed in 2020.
Outschool is a marketplace of live online classes for kids that connects learners, parents, and teachers together.
Raised $240,220,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Tiger Global Management, Union Square Ventures, Coatue, FundersClub, SV Angel, Bond and Reach Capital.