Lauren Reeder

Partner

2021 - Current

Partnering with founders at the earliest stages to help build legendary companies.

Director of Product

2020 - 2021

Director of Product - Core Products + Infrastructure

2016 - 2021

Building the future of Segment + Twilio's Customer Data Platform & Infrastructure. I led product and engineering teams teams across our core product. Some snapshots of products my teams have built included below.

Managing Partner

2018 - 2021

A new fund backed by First Round Capital investing in rising talent, typically starting their first company. Our investments have grown to over $1B+ in market cap from our pre-seed investments over the course of 2 years with investments in developer tooling, compensation platforms, the future of content publishing, and more. Investments I've led include https://www.pave.com/, https://everything.substack.com/, and others.

Managing Partner

2014 - 2016

I led the Philadelphia team as the managing partner for our investment team. We invest in the best student-run startups across the nation and are backed by First Round Capital.

Venture and Growth Fund Associate

2015 - 2015

Quantitative Analyst

2014 - 2014

Developed quant trading strategies to take advantage of holding company mis-pricings and loan restructure lifecycles in the banking industry.

Software Engineer

2013 - 2014

Founding engineer - learned a lot about just about every part of starting, building, and running a company while having a great time building out our product.