Eugene Lee
Partner at OMERS Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2019 - Current
OMERS Ventures is a multi-stage and multi-sector venture firm with offices in Palo Alto, Toronto, and London. My specific focus is on investing in workplace technology and consumer companies. Currently a board member at Klue (competitive enablement), WorkRamp (Enterprise Learning Engine), Postal (offline marketing automation), Mosaic (strategic finance), and an investor in Crunchbase (prospecting for private companies).
Board Member
2023
Mosaic.tech is a finance platform that provides predictive reporting capabilities to assist with financial strategy and planning.
Raised $71,900,000.00 from Friends & Family Capital, General Catalyst, OMERS Ventures, Founders Fund and XYZ Venture Capital.
Board Member
2022
Falkon AI is an intelligence platform for marketing, sales, and account management teams.
Raised $16,000,000.00 from Madera Technology Partners, Greylock, OMERS Ventures, Trilogy Financial Services and Flying Fish Partners.
Board Member
2021
Board Member
2020
Board Member
2020
Advisor / Mentor
2017
The Desai Accelerator is a joint venture of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the College of Engineering and the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurship at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Desai is designed to enable early-stage companies to transition from incubation to fundable enterprises. Our fixed-term, cohort-based program, including mentorship and educational components, was designed to provide startups with critical resources to help them make rapid progress on product and customer development. The program culminates with a Demo Day, where each company pitches to hundreds of angel investors and VCs.
Accelerating Scalable, Sustainable Companies
VP of Business Operations and Strategy
2018 - 2019
Copper offers customer relationship management solutions for companies that use Google applications.
Raised $102,000,000.00 from Norwest Venture Partners, Google Ventures, Industry Ventures, True Ventures, Industry Ventures, Google Ventures, DHVC and Norwest Venture Partners.
Advisor / Consultant
2010 - 2019
Advise and/or consult various early-stage technology companies ranging from SaaS to consumer companies. Projects include go-to-market strategy, pricing, sales, driving metrics (acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, monetization, revenue), etc.
Head of Business Operations and Strategy
2015 - 2017
Founded, built and led the Business Operations and Strategy team at Pinterest. The team focuses on enabling our business partners to drive results through operational insights and strategic initiatives. Focus areas include product & corporate strategy, performance management (growth, engagement, and monetization), revenue optimization, and go-to-market strategy.
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Raised $1,486,100,000.00 from Elliott Investment Management and Elliott Investment Management.