Mr Alex Taussig

KANDO id: 32500

Bio

Alex has spent over a decade in venture capital, joining Lightspeed as a Partner in early 2016. He is passionate about understanding consumer behavior through data and has spent his career investing in startups addressing consumers’ needs. Alex’s investments have covered consumer categories as diverse as retail, apparel, media, publishing, real estate, and education. Prior to joining Lightspeed, Alex was a Partner at Highland Capital Partners. Over his 7 years at the firm, Alex worked closely with over a dozen companies, including thredUP, Jaunt, 2U (TWOU), Carbon Black (CBLK), Imprivata (IMPR), RentJuice (acq. by Zillow), Streambase (acq. by TIBCO), and Vertica (acq. by HP). Alex is a trained research scientist and breaks down business problems with deductive logic and analytical rigor. He originally studied physics at Harvard College, where he graduated summa cum laude, and then went on to receive a Master’s degree in materials engineering from MIT, where he was part of a research group building the first fully optical computer chip. Alex also received an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, an honor given to the top 5% of the graduating class

Career


Lightspeed Management Co LLC

Multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in the enterprise and consumer sectors.
From

Highland Capital Partners LLC

Global venture capital firm with offices in Boston, Silicon Valley, and San Francisco.

Education