Lauren Reeder
Partner at Sequoia Capital
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLauren Reeder is a venture partner and operator with a decade of experience backing and building companies from seed to growth, currently partnering with founders at Sequoia Capital and advising post-Series G at Anthropic. She blends early-stage investing (leading pre-seed and inception rounds across startups like XBOW, Stainless, and Firetiger) with hands-on product leadership from roles at Twilio and as a founding engineer at Emerald Exam. Trained in computer science and economics at UPenn, she pairs technical fluency with a strong track record in scaling product and go-to-market strategies, having grown Graduate Fund-backed startups to over $1B+ in market cap. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Lauren brings a merchant’s eye for trends—rooted in an earlier fashion and retail background—and a quantitative mindset from prior fintech and quant experience. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic connector who moves fluidly between engineering, product, and capital, often stepping into board roles to operationalize growth.
11 years of coding experience
BSE Computer Science, BS Economics with concentrations in Finance and Statistics, BSE Computer Science, BS Economics with concentrations in Finance and Statistics at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (5)
jekyll9
analyticsjs9
data-lake6
terraform-module6
aws5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
laurenreeder/Senior-Design
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
laurenreeder/HN_comment-tracking
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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