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Lisa Xu

Partner at Threshold Ventures

New York, New York

Overview 

Lisa Xu is a Partner at Threshold Ventures in New York, with prior roles including Principal at FirstMark Capital and Product Manager at Handy HQ. She has a background in data analysis, financial modeling, and strategic planning, specializing in investing in Seed and Series A stages within SaaS, Consumer Internet, and Enterprise sectors in New York City. Lisa's career highlights include her role as a Partner at Threshold Ventures and her experience as a Product Manager at Handy HQ, showcasing her expertise in venture capital and product management within the tech industry.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2024 - Current

    We are a small, focused team of early-stage VCs partnering with visionary founders at the threshold of explosive growth. We have been investing for over four decades (fka DFJ) and are proud to have backed transformational companies like Rippling, Box, Twilio, Doximity, Remitly, Livongo, and Redfin. We focus on Seed to Series B with $5-15M lead checks. Investments and Board Roles: Suger - Series A lead - Board Member Motion - Series B investor - Board Observer VideaHealth - Series B lead LaborUp - Seed investor Numa - Board Observer Unannounced - Seed lead - Board Member Unannounced - Seed investor

Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on conviction investment strategy.

  • Board Member

    2024

    Suger is the end-to-end revenue engine for cloud marketplaces

  • Board Observer

    2024

    Motion is the command center for creative strategists

  • Board Observer

    2024

    Numa is an AI agent platform for dealerships

Numa is an AI platform for automotive dealerships, focusing on automating appointment bookings and improving customer engagement.

Raised $44,100,000.00 from Mitsui & Co, Touring Capital, Costanoa Ventures, Threshold and Gradient.

  • Principal

    2022 - 2024

    FirstMark is an early stage venture capital firm based in New York City focused on Seed and Series A. We back and accelerate founders of iconic, industry-defining companies. Select investments: Loop Returns (Series A), EvolutionIQ (Seed - acquired by CCC), Pigment (Seed), Alloy Automation (Series A), Workit Health (Series A), Archive Resale (Seed), TextIQ (Series A - acq. by Relativity), CognitOps (Series A), Sonar fka Simplist (Series A), Hypercomply (Seed), Lido (Seed)

  • Investor

    2018 - 2021

FirstMark Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs making their mark on the world.

  • Product Manager

    2017 - 2018

    Acquired by ANGI Homeservices (NASDAQ: ANGI)

Handy, formerly Handybook, is an app through which users can book cleaners, plumbers, handymen, and other household service providers.

Raised $110,728,926.00 from Fidelity, Revolution Growth, AddVenture, Highland Capital Partners, TPG Growth, Revolution and General Catalyst.

  • Senior Manager, Membership

    2016 - 2017

    IPO (NASDAQ: PTON)

Peloton is an interactive fitness platform reinventing fitness with live and on-demand boutique studio classes.

Raised $2,169,707,000.00 from TCV.

  • Associate Consultant

    2014 - 2016

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