Ben Lang
Building at next play
Tel Aviv District
Overview
Work Experience
Building
2025 - Current
Supporting the Cursor community. Anysphere is an applied research lab working on automating coding (the makers of Cursor.)
Newsletter
2024
The best way to discover what’s next—curated opportunities, gatherings, and content. 65K+ subscribers: nextplayso.substack.com
Angel Investor
2020
Investor and advisor in early-stage companies: Deel, Lovable, Masterschool, Julius, Gamma, Luma, and 50+ more.
Angel Track
2022
Member of First Round Capital's Spring 2022 Angel Track cohort — a masterclass and community for angel investors and established operators.
First Round Angel Track is a community of operators and founders looking to develop their skills and identities as early-stage investors.
Head of Community
2019 - 2023
Joined Notion as one of the first 15 employees to lead community efforts.
Notion is a workspace platform that offers note-taking, collaboration, task management, wikis, and databases.
Raised $343,199,697.00 from Coatue, Shine Capital and Sequoia Capital.
Consultant
2018 - 2019
Worked with early-stage companies Notion, atSpoke, InVision, and Fleetsmith. Projects included: special projects for the CEO, growth marketing, customer advocacy, community building, events, and demand gen.
Growth
2017 - 2018
First marketing hire at Spoke. All things growth, outbound marketing, lead gen, content and community.
atSpoke is a modern internal ticketing system.
Raised $28,000,000.00 from Greylock, Felicis, Accel and Webb Investment Network.
Cofounder & CEO
2014 - 2016
Cofounded Mapme, a mapping platform for businesses. Built initial product, raised funding, recruited team, led marketing and product.
Soldier
2012 - 2014
Volunteer in the Israeli military. Served in a top intelligence unit.
Incubation Team
2012 - 2013
Worked on the lool ventures incubation team, focused on go-to-market and growth. Part time role while serving in the military.