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Mark Xu

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

New York City Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Mark Xu is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners in New York City, specializing in investing in Series A, Series B, and Seed stage companies in sectors such as Enterprise and Consumer Internet. With a background in investment banking, business development, and software engineering, Mark has leveraged his diverse skill set to successfully lead investment strategies and drive growth for portfolio companies. Mark's career highlights include his role as a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he has played a key role in identifying and investing in promising startups, and his experience in investment banking at Citi, where he honed his financial acumen and deal-making skills.

Work Experience 

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

  • Partner

    2022 - Current

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

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.

lsvp.com
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Scroll.io

  • Business Development/Strategy

    2022 - 2022

    First business hire

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Citi

  • Investment Banking (M&A)

    2021 - 2021

Citigroup is a financial services holding company that provides various financial products and services.

Raised $12,950,000,000.00 from ValueAct Capital and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

citigroup.com
TH

The Harvard Crimson

  • Associate Business Manager

    2020 - 2021

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

The Harvard Crimson is a daily newspaper that offers the latest local and international news.

thecrimson.com
CU

China Universal Asset Management

  • 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.

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iSoftStone

  • 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.

Global IT services firm specializing in web/apps dev, software testing/supp, data/content management, data services for AI and more.

isoftstoneinc.com
YU

Yale University

  • 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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