Lucas Nelson

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.

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

Board Member

2020

Board Member

2020

Mentor @ Singularity Labs

2015 - 2019

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

Principal

2011 - 2017

Seed and A-round investing with a focus on cloud computing, online security, local commerce, and the SMB market.