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Stephan Dietrich

Operating Partner at Lead Edge Capital

Greater Boston

Overview 

Stephan Dietrich is an accomplished entrepreneur and advisor with a strong background in strategy and start-ups, currently serving as the Operating Partner at Lead Edge Capital and holding board positions at companies like Akeneo and Optimove. He has made significant investments in companies such as CybelAngel and Vade Secure, showcasing his expertise in marketing tech and enterprise applications. Stephan Dietrich's career highlights include serving as a guest lecturer at Harvard Business School and being the President of the SaaS Club at FrenchFounders, demonstrating his leadership and influence in the industry.

Work Experience 

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Lead Edge Capital

  • Operating Partner

    2022 - Current

Lead Edge Capital is a $5B growth equity firm investing in software, internet, and tech-enabled services businesses globally.

leadedge.com
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Akeneo

  • Board Member, Advisor, Investor,

    2018

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Harvard Business School

  • Guest Lecturer

    2020

    Expanding to the US? Teaching the Neolane case study in the Entrepreneurial Sales Class with Mark Roberge and Lou Shipley

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FrenchFounders

  • President SaaS Club

    2019

    The mission of the SaaS Club is to connect its French and European members with some of the most inspiring, talented and experienced SaaS Founders in the USA or across the world. We hold learning and experience sharing events every 4-6 weeks and have covered amazing themes in the past with some of the best SaaS entrepreneurs out there: Elias Torres (Hubspot / Drift), Austin McChord (Datto), Scott Galloway (Section4), Lou Shipley (BlackDuck), Camilla Velasquez (JustWorks), Florian Douetteau (Dataiku), Patrick Campbell (ProfitWell), Emmanuel Schalit (Dashlane), Michael Pici (Reforge/Hubspot)... We cover the key themes in building, expanding and scaling a SaaS business, in particular in the USA: GTM, Analyst Relations, Pricing Optimization, Scaling sales teams, optimizing your marketing, fund raising with US VCs... Replays are available on the FrenchFounders website.

Frenchfounders is the world leader in Business intermediation for the French-speaking business community.

Raised $6,355,411.00 from FJ Labs.

frenchfounders.com
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Optimove

  • Independent Board Member

    2023

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Lucca

  • Board Member, Advisor, Investor

    2020

    Advisor to the CEO and Leadership team to scale the business from $10M to $100M and expand internationally.

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Yousign

  • Board Member, Advisor, Investor

    2021

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Toucan Toco - Data Storytelling

  • Board Member, Advisor, Investor

    2021

Toucan is a customer-facing analytics platform that empowers organizations to drive engagement with the best end-user experience.

Raised $13,213,793.00 from Balderton Capital and Isai.

toucantoco.com
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Remesh

  • Board Member, Advisor, Investor

    2020

Upneo LLC

  • CEO

    2018

    Bringing my skill set and experience to high growth SaaS companies as an advisor, independent director and investor. Specializing in helping European enterprise software firms land, scale and successfully exit in the USA.

Education 

Investments 

CybelAngel

Series B

Total funding: $36M

Akeneo

Corporate Round

Total funding: $190M

Vade Secure

Series A

Total funding: $79M

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