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Alex Taussig
Co-lead of Lightspeed's consumer investment team across the Americas and Europe
Alex Taussig is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he co-leads the consumer investment team across the Americas and Europe. He has over 15 years of experience as a venture capital investor, focusing on various industries including consumer packaged goods (CPG), education, and financial services.
In addition to his role at Lightspeed, Taussig serves as a Board Observer at Keychain, a company that connects packaged food brands with reliable manufacturers. He joined Keychain in August 2023, shortly after Lightspeed led the company's Series Seed funding round.12
Taussig's educational background includes a summa cum laude degree in physics from Harvard College, an MS in materials engineering from MIT, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was recognized as a Baker Scholar, indicating he was in the top 5% of his class.2 He is based in San Francisco and has a range of personal interests, including muay thai and anime.2
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Good impression. Bad sketch. Best part is Amy Poehler staring directly into camera.
1/ Time has flown by since @Lightspeedvp's first investment in @Vinted in 2019. Since then, Thomas and team have made huge strides, becoming the most regionally dominant consumer marketplace in Europe.
Today, Vinted closed a secondary sale of €340M led by @tpg and Hedosophia that values the company at €5B. I'm thrilled to continue supporting the company on its board, into the next phase of growth.
Looking back over the last 5 years, a few highlights stood out to me...
