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Mark Xu

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

New York City Metropolitan Area

Overview

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2022 - Current

    Investments: Wiz, Axonius, Glean, Anduril, Verkada, Redpanda, Cato Networks, Stripe, Resilience Cyber

  • Business Development/Strategy

    2022 - 2022

    First business hire

  • Investment Banking (M&A)

    2021 - 2021

  • Associate Business Manager

    2020 - 2021

    CFO/COO of $1m annual revenue student run-business

  • Cross-Border Investments

    2019 - 2019

    Pioneered firm’s ESG research and self-authored a 100-page report on ESG Investing to be used by the CEO, CIO, and investment & research teams to develop the firm’s foundational ESG investment strategy.

  • Software Engineering

    2018 - 2018

    - Designed and engineered a UI for city with over 9 million citizens that implements augmented reality, real time simulation, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and new urban systems to enable more rapid and effective decision-making - Enhanced platform used for visualization of issues related to land use, density, walkability, mobility patterns, live-work balance, innovation potential, safety and security, health and wellness, and the integration of new urban systems.

  • Researcher

    2016 - 2017

    - Ratner / Lin Lab - Discovered a patent-pending drug that ​substantially inhibits​ ​tumor​ ​growth,​ ​disrupts​ ​DNA​ ​synthesis,​ ​and​ ​sensitizes​ ​ovarian​ ​cancer​ ​cells​ ​to​ ​chemotherapy; drug currently moving on to animal studies. - Presented findings to professors, doctors, researchers, PhD students, and high school students. - Published in Nature's Scientific Reports (2021)

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