Liza Benson
Partner
@ Moderne Ventures
Location:
New York, NY USA
Sector Focus:
Climatetech
Data
Tech
Robotic
SaaS
AI
Stage Focus:
Seed Round
Series A Round
Series B+ Round
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Introduction
Prior to joining Moderne Ventures, Liza Benson and Constance Freedman served together on the UrbanBound Board while Liza was a Partner at StarVest Partners. Liza also served as a mentor for the Moderne Network, meeting with many of Moderne’s portfolio companies over 2+ years prior to joining Moderne Ventures in 2018.
Liza Benson is a Partner with Moderne Ventures and helps lead and manage investment activity with a particular focus on high-growth technology companies that can achieve rapid adoption and scale. Prior to Moderne, Liza was a Partner with StarVest Partners, focused on expansion stage B2B SaaS investments. Previously, Liza was a Managing Director of Highbridge Principals Strategies and invested primarily in online video, digital media, and marketing technologies and prior to that she was a Managing Director with Bear Stearns’ Constellation Growth Capital and an investment banker at Patricof & Co and First Union where she started her career.
Liza has been a board member or observer in more than a dozen companies, including Cxense [FRA:CXH], Widevine (sold to Google), Webify (sold to IBM), Siperian (sold to Informatica) and K12 [NYSE: LRN], Bench, Ceros, Transactis RAMP OpenSlate, Xignite, CrowdTwist, UrbanBound, EasyKnock, TaskEasy, Bend, Caribou, Tailorbird, and Kaiyo. She also led an investment in Capital IQ which was sold to McGraw-Hill.
Liza received a BA in Mathematical Economics, summa cum laude, from Colgate University.