Jana Messerschmidt

Founding Partner

2015 - Current

#ANGELS is a team of experienced exec operators collaborating to invest in visionary founders pursuing bold and transformative ideas. We have experience scaling the most impactful technology companies of the past decade, including Twitter, Google, Netflix & Slack. We typically invest at pre-seed through Series A stages. My investments include Carta, Vanta, Anchorage, Pacaso, Forward, Daydream, Cameo, Streamlit, Color, Persona, mmhmm, Shef, Opensea, Clubhouse, Bird, Convex, Materialize, Culdesac, Ashby, Nurx, Lovevery, Level, Carrot, Material Security, Snackpass, Threads, Digits, Mutiny, Fireflies.ai, Winnie, Otter, Aleo, and Roam, among others.

Partner, Enterprise & Consumer (Early Stage)

2018 - 2021

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global multistage venture capital firm with a 20 year history backing incredible founders. During my tenure at Lightspeed, I led 8 investments at Seed and Series A, across enterprise and consumer.

Vice President, Global Business Development & Platform

2010 - 2016

I built and led the organization responsible for Twitter's global strategic partnerships across both consumer and enterprise. I joined Twitter in the first few hundred employees and led critical initiatives that accelerated our growth to a 5000+ employee public company. My organization drove distribution and growth partnerships for many of Twitter's core consumer products. We also built the enterprise Data Licensing and API business from the ground up to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. I recruited a global organization full of talented leaders including VPs, GMs and Directors whose teams were responsible for all aspects of Business Development & Partner Management, Enterprise Sales and Account Management, Marketing, Product Management, Developer Relations, Partner Engineering, Data Science, Corp Strategy and more.

Director, Business Development

2009 - 2010

I joined Netflix to build out the early streaming partnerships and products. We partnered deeply with chip, OEM / ODM, OS, cable / telco, gaming and retail / ecomm companies to launch Netflix streaming for tens of millions of consumers within two years.

Director, Strategic Accounts

2008 - 2009

Senior Manager, Global Accounts

2005 - 2008