Lucas Nelson
Partner at Lytical Ventures
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2018 - Current
Lytical Ventures is an NYC based venture fund which focuses on corporate intelligence including Cyber Security, Data and Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence. We are a robust team comprised of professionals with decades of combined experience in direct investing and extensive knowledge of our focus areas.
Lytical Ventures is an venture fund based in New York.
Kauffman Fellow
2009
The Kauffman Fellows Program identifies, develops, and networks the next generation of global leaders in the venture capital industry.
Board Member
2018
Graylog is a log management software platform for collecting, indexing, and analyzing log messages in one place.
Raised $71,400,000.00 from Harbert Growth Partners and Silver Lake Waterman.
Board Member
2020
Careviso is a technology healthcare company helping to simplify and streamline patient access for molecular diagnostics.
Raised $36,361,176.00 from Ballast Point Ventures, Lytical Ventures and Mercury.
Board Member
2020
Wickr is a free top-secret messaging app allowing its users to send and receive top-secret messages, pictures, videos, audios, and files.
Raised $74,608,935.00 from In-Q-Tel, Knight Enterprise Fund and Singtel Innov8.
Mentor @ Singularity Labs
2015 - 2019
Singularity Group is an educational organization that provides research development and executive programs.
Adjunct Faculty, CSE department, NYU School of Engineering
2014 - 2018
Teaching "Entrepreneurship for Hackers" for Spring 2014 to graduate and undergraduate students. Over the semester they will work in teams to make a product that delivers value to customers. Students will learn tools and tricks of the trade including storyboarding, customer interviews, prototyping tools, lean and agile methodologies, business frameworks, as well as an introduction to the NYC entrepreneurial ecosystem. At the end teams will present their products to a panel of distinguished guests from the NYC tech community. Along the way there will be guest speakers from industry as well as entrepreneurs.
Venture Partner
2014 - 2018
Focused on developing the firm's seed stage investment portfolio of Security, Cloud, SaaS, and Enterprise Infrastructure companies.
Principal
2017 - 2018
Based in New York City and Zurich, Evolution Equity Partners invests in growth stage technology companies in the United States, Europe and Israel helping exceptional entrepreneurs develop market leading companies. The firm has a focus on Cyber-Security and Enterprise Software and its partners have been involved as founders, investors and as senior operating executives in leading software companies around the world. Current and past portfolio companies include: AVG Technologies (AVG: NYSE), Cognitive Security (CSCO: NASDAQ), OpenDNS (CSCO: NASDAQ), Carbon Black, Onapsis, Security Scorecard, DFLabs among others.
Senior Advisor
2016 - 2017
Evolution Equity Partners is a venture capital investor helping sector expertise to help entrepreneurs develop market-leading companies.
Principal
2011 - 2017
Seed and A-round investing with a focus on cloud computing, online security, local commerce, and the SMB market.