Eric Ong

Partner at Lightbank Investor

Partner
2016 - Current
$700M AUM early stage VC fund investing out of a $290m Fund III that initially invests across pre-seed / seed / series A rounds. Areas of interest include startups building vertically focused technology or tech-enabled services for consumer & SMBs. Partner on the Investment Committee. The partners at Lightbank have started companies such as Tempus (NASDAQ: TEM), Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), Echo Logistics (NASDAQ: ECHO), Mediaocean (acq. by Vista Equity) and Innerworkings (Nasdaq: INWK). The fund's portfolio companies has created over $25B in enterprise value and include companies such as Sprout Social (NASDAQ: SPT), Fiverr (NYSE: FVRR), Udemy (NASDAQ: UDMY), Tastytrade (acq. by IG Group), Boom Supersonic, Expel and others. Active: Aropha, Felux, GamerGains, Hello Divorce, Justpoint, Mickey, Paytient, Protiv Previous: Clearcover, Riskmatch (acq. by Vertafore), Super, Coffee Meets Bagel