Lucinda Linde

Bio

Lucinda invests in early stage information technology companies. At First Light she has performed due diligence on prospective investments and worked with portfolio companies at First Light Capital. Strong Numbers was acquired by IDI Systems. She was an investor in Visualization Technologies Inc. (acquired by GE Medical Systems), Viveca (acquired by Open Pages) and Collego (acquired by MRO Systems). Lucinda recently co-authored an in-depth study on angel investors, VSS Project: Report on Angel Investors, for Professor Howard Stevenson at HBS and Ken Morse of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center. Previously, Lucinda helped build a management consulting firm focused on the telecommunications industry, COBA Boston, which was acquired by Renaissance Worldwide. Start-up experience includes operations and marketing positions at Molten Metal Technology and Ceramics Process Systems. Both were venture-backed companies that went public. Lucinda is a past-president of the Harvard Business School Association of Boston generating the highest event attendance of the decade; and was President of the MIT Class of 1982, helping drive the highest 20th reunion attendance ever at MIT. She holds an SB and an SM in Materials Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.