Avery Rosin
Partner at Lead Edge Capital
Avery Rosin
Partner at Lead Edge Capital
Santa Barbara, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2012 - Current
Active growth equity investor, leading investments in FIGS (IPO), Knock CRM (Acquired by RealPage), Artera (fka Well Health), Hinge Health, LaunchDarkly, Replicated, Workiz, & Nucleus Security and sourcing investments in Zoom, Duo Security (acquired by Cisco for $2.4B in Oct. 2018), Moat (acquired by Oracle for $850M in April 2017), Signal Sciences (acquired by Fastly for $775M in Oct. 2020), Thrive Market, Boxed, and Ovia Health. Have also supported portfolio companies including Toast POS and ClearScore. Lead Edge Capital is a $5 billion growth equity firm investing in software, internet, and tech-enabled services businesses globally. The firm has invested in a number of major software and internet companies around the world, including Alibaba Group, Arrive Logistics, Asana, Azul Systems, Bazaarvoice, Benchling, Clearscore, Duo Security, Grafana, GrowthZone, Holistiplan, LeanStaffing, LiveView Technologies, Pacemate, Safesend, Signal Sciences, Tempo, Toast, Wise, and YouSign. Lead Edge has invested in more than 100 companies worldwide and has seen over 60 portfolio companies achieve an exit. One of the main drivers of Lead Edge’s success is its unique investor base, a group of 700+ executives, entrepreneurs, and dealmakers who have built and run some of the world’s most successful companies. In addition to providing flexible capital, Lead Edge leverages this global advisory group to connect portfolio companies with the customers, partners, talent, and advisors needed to accelerate growth. Lead Edge Capital was founded in 2011 and has offices in New York City and Santa Barbara.
Board Member
2021
Member of Leadership Forum & Co-Chair of Excelerate Summit
2011
Was a Birthright Excel Summer Fellowship participant on the inaugural trip in the summer of 2011. This was a 10-week internship while living in Tel Aviv. Have held roles as part of the Alumni Leadership Board and have remained active as a member of the Leadership Forum advisory group and as a Co-Chair of the annual innovation summit Excelerate since 2016.
Forbes 30 Under 30 in Venture Capital 2020
2019 - 2019
Various Startups
2011 - 2012
Was a marketing and business development for State.com, a global opinion network based out of London. Was a project manager for Live Dibs, a real-time marketplace for perishable inventory
Analyst
2011 - 2011
Analyzed investment opportunities, learned about Venture Capital and private investment industries with relation to Hi-Tech, advised portfolio companies - performed a deep dive into mobile payments
Field Sales Manager
2009 - 2009
Marketing & Sales, sold over $30,000 of Cutco products to get promoted to FSM
Education
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
2009 - 2013
Affiliate Student
2011 - 2011