Lester Lee

Founder of Artemis

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Lester Lee is a seasoned executive with a background in online advertising, social media, and digital strategy, having held leadership roles at companies like Lattice and SurveyMonkey. Currently serving as the CEO and Founder of Artemis, he has successfully built and led teams, developed revenue strategies, and forged strategic partnerships in the tech industry. Highlights of Lester's career include serving as VP of Revenue Strategy at Lattice and Sales Director/VP of EMEA Sales at SurveyMonkey, demonstrating his expertise in revenue generation and sales leadership within the digital marketing sector.

Work Experience 

  • CEO / Founder / prompt engineer

    2024 - Current

  • VP, Revenue Strategy

    2023 - 2024

  • VP, Partnerships

    2021 - 2023

Lattice is a people success platform that help business leaders develop engaged, high-performing employees, and winning cultures.

Raised $330,320,000.00 from HighSage Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, Dragoneer Investment Group, Haystack, Thrive Capital, Fuel Capital, Elad Gil and Shasta Ventures.

  • Advisor

    2021 - 2024

    Seed to Series A

Explo operates a data exploration and analysis platform to connect directly to database or warehouse sources.

Raised $14,450,000.00 from Casey Winters, Craft Ventures, Amplo, Gokul Rajaram, Sarona Ventures and Felicis.

  • Advisor

    2020 - 2024

    Seed to Series B

Automate talent acquisition workflows and consolidate top-of-funnel activities in Findem's Talent Data Cloud.

Raised $37,300,000.00 from Four Rivers Group, Wing Venture Capital, Corner Ventures and Quarry.

  • Angel Investor

    2020 - 2024

    Cal.com, Reforge, Jasper, Shipped.ai, Dr. Treat, Explo, Joon, Healthtech-1, Goodfin, Patreon, Spacedrive

  • Co-founder, COO

    2018 - 2020

    Y Combinator (W19), $3.7M seed. Acquired by ClickUp.

A unified interface for cloud applications

Raised $3,700,000.00 from S28 Capital, Quarry, Tranquil Funds, Quiet Capital, Cervin Ventures, TwentyTwo VC, UP2398, Quiet Capital and Y Combinator.

  • Advisor

    2018 - 2018

  • Head of Revenue

    2016 - 2018

    Built the Sales, Customer Success, and Demand Generation teams. Grew from 0 to 500 B2B customers and revenue from $50K to $3M in 18 months.

  • Advisor

    2016 - 2016

Lattice is a people success platform that help business leaders develop engaged, high-performing employees, and winning cultures.

Raised $330,320,000.00 from HighSage Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, Dragoneer Investment Group, Haystack, Thrive Capital, Fuel Capital, Elad Gil and Shasta Ventures.

  • Advisor

    2016 - 2016

    Helped 2 seed-stage startups get traction and raise their Series A

  • Sales Director / VP, EMEA Sales

    2015 - 2016

    Built the inbound and outbound sales processes for SurveyMonkey Audience. Later led sales and account management teams in EMEA (London and Dublin).

SurveyMonkey is a provides an online survey software platform to allow its clients to create surveys, collect responses, and analyze data.

  • Vice President, Customer Development

    2012 - 2015

    Built the sales and customer success teams. Grew revenue from $200K to $6M in two years.

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