Yash Zaveri
Lucid Dreaming at Stealth Mode
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
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
On Deck is a community platform designed to develop different ideas and build companies.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Pioneer Fund.
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
J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation provides commodity risk management solutions in both the physical .