Yash Zaveri

Lucid Dreaming

2023 - Current

Partner & Managing Director

2021 - 2023

Pre-seed with a founder-first mindset. We've helped create over 40 companies to date, with the likes of Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, Insight Partners, Addition, Tiger Global & NEA investing in our companies. First check investor in 46 companies, 7.5x MOIC, 120% IRR, €300m NAV. Founding investor in 10 companies across the globe, including Tranch (Soma, YC, Instacart founders), Prologue (Seedcamp, Speedinvest), Mellie (Sequoia Cap Israel), Plato (Cherry), Forward Earth (Speedinvest, Revent), Genie (GFC, NEA), The Swarm (GFC, Contrary, Kevin Mahaffey, Vivek Sodera), Balio (Presight, Blue Lion), Complyance (Speedinvest, HV, Creandum).

Fellow

2020 - 2021

Entrepreneur in Residence

2018 - 2020

EF invests in the world’s most ambitious technologists to help them build world-class deep technology startups from scratch in London, Singapore and Berlin. EF is backed by Reid Hoffman and Greylock Partners, Founders Fund, Mosaic Ventures and Lakestar. EF have built over 150 companies, have over 1000 alumni world wide, and our portfolio has a valuation of over $1.5 billion.

Private Equity Investor

2014 - 2017

$8bn fund focused on pan-European buyouts across six sectors: consumer/retail, industrials, business services, healthcare, financial services and TMT. Funds managed by Cinven acquire Europe-based companies that require an equity investment by our funds of €200 million - €800 million.

M&A Investment Banking Associate

2014 - 2014

M&A Investment Banking Analyst

2011 - 2014