Lauren Reeder
Partner at Sequoia Capital
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2021 - Current
Partnering with founders at the earliest stages to help build legendary companies.
Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.
Director of Product
2020 - 2021
Twilio is a cloud communication company that enables users to use standard web languages to build voice, VoIP, and SMS apps via a web API.
Raised $614,415,525.00 from TCV.
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.
Segment provides customer data infrastructure that helps businesses put their customers first.
Raised $283,934,700.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund.
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.
Dorm Room Fund is the strongest community of entrepreneurial students in the nation.
Venture and Growth Fund Associate
2015 - 2015
Accel is an seed and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
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.