Mark Xu
Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
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)