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Lars Dalgaard

Board Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Lars Dalgaard is a Board Partner at A16Z, investing in startups primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a focus on cloud computing, SaaS, and PaaS. He has held leadership roles at SuccessFactors as CEO and founder, and has invested in companies like Zenefits and Domo. Currently, Lars Dalgaard is an influential figure in the tech investment space, serving as a Board Partner at A16Z and actively investing in successful startups such as Veza and SkySafe, while also leveraging his experience as the former CEO of SuccessFactors to provide personalized guidance to CEOs and their teams.

Work Experience 

  • Invest/deploy from Dalgaard Family office.

    2005 - Current

    We have the privilege of investing in what we believe can transform environmental waste, can free the human spirit, cancer and mental health research, real estate and art, a few tech and crypto funds, and for over 20 years exceptional teams of tech companies.

  • Board Member / Board Partner

    2018

  • General Partner

    2013 - 2018

    People who really care about the people behind the startups, and building quality.

Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.

  • Advisory Board Member

    2014 - 2021

    Strategic sounding board for Dean and their team.

  • Board Member

    2010 - 2020

    Aim for radical inclusiveness, focused on homeless population.

  • Consultant to Board

    2013 - 2015

  • Vorstand Mitglied/Executive Board Member. Responsible for Cloud

    2012 - 2013

    - Board/Vorstand member - As a team we ran SAP at the time a ~ $20B Revenue, ~ $100B Market Cap - Cloud operations and strategy for SAP, catalyst for $40B Market Cap increase in 4 years. - Did $10B in acquisitions - 70,000 employees

SAP IoT Start up Accelerator is a global co-innovation program for B2B startups innovating in the world of the Internet of Things.

  • CEO, Founder

    2001 - 2013

    - I was co-founder and CEO until 2013 $3.6 Billion sale to SAP. - Took public 2008 and beat the stock performance of the majority of other technology stocks, including APPLE while it launched the iPods, and iPhones, the 17 quarters SuccessFactors [SFSF] were public - We grew SuccessFactors 100% CAGR for the first 7 years, receiving the best Gartner, Forrester ratings for the decade

  • VP

    1999 - 2000

    - Vision: Solving novel diseases in the world through computer science. - Exit: Sold to Qiagen for $100M

  • Managing Director/ Administrerende Direktør, Darenas Denmark

    1994 - 1998

    '97 CEO of Danish Unilever Division Subsidiary, a business I helped acquire from ISS. Drove the merger of 5 companies, combining an 80% market leadership entity. '96 12,000 people biz, Board Member participant, and CEO right hand '95 Managing Director P&L for German Sub., in Mannheim, Germany '94 Products category leader Global (200 countries)

  • Finance, Accounting, Sales, Product

    1992 - 1994

    USA & Switzerland HQ Management rotation.

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