Lester Lee
Founder of Artemis
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder, CEO
2024 - Current
VP, Partnerships
2021 - 2024
Lattice is a people success platform that help business leaders develop engaged, high-performing employees, and winning cultures.
Raised $330,320,000.00 from HighSage Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, Dragoneer Investment Group, Haystack, Thrive Capital, Fuel Capital, Elad Gil and Shasta Ventures.
Advisor
2021 - 2024
Seed to Series A
Explo operates a data exploration and analysis platform to connect directly to database or warehouse sources.
Raised $14,450,000.00 from Casey Winters, Craft Ventures, Amplo, Gokul Rajaram, Sarona Ventures and Felicis.
Advisor
2020 - 2024
Seed to Series B
Automate talent acquisition workflows and consolidate top-of-funnel activities in Findem's Talent Data Cloud.
Raised $37,300,000.00 from Four Rivers Group, Wing Venture Capital, Corner Ventures and Quarry.
Angel Investor
2020 - 2024
Cal.com, Reforge, Jasper, Shipped.ai, Dr. Treat, Explo, Joon, Healthtech-1, Goodfin, Patreon, Spacedrive
Co-founder, COO
2018 - 2020
Y Combinator (W19), $3.7M seed. Acquired by ClickUp.
A unified interface for cloud applications
Raised $3,700,000.00 from S28 Capital, Quarry, Tranquil Funds, Quiet Capital, Cervin Ventures, TwentyTwo VC, UP2398, Quiet Capital and Y Combinator.
Advisor
2018 - 2018
Head of Revenue
2016 - 2018
Built the Sales, Customer Success, and Demand Generation teams. Grew from 0 to 500 B2B customers and revenue from $50K to $3M in 18 months.
Advisor
2016 - 2016
Lattice is a people success platform that help business leaders develop engaged, high-performing employees, and winning cultures.
Raised $330,320,000.00 from HighSage Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, Dragoneer Investment Group, Haystack, Thrive Capital, Fuel Capital, Elad Gil and Shasta Ventures.
Sales Director / VP, EMEA Sales
2015 - 2016
SurveyMonkey is a provides an online survey software platform to allow its clients to create surveys, collect responses, and analyze data.
Vice President, Customer Development
2012 - 2015
Built the sales and customer success teams. Grew revenue from $200K to $6M in two years.
Vice President, Sales
2011 - 2012
Grew the sales team from 2 to 16, helped to bring the company to profitability within 7 months. Polyvore was acquired by Yahoo! in July 2015.
Polyvore is a new way to discover and shop for the things you love.
Raised $22,100,000.00 from DAG Ventures, Matrix, Vivi Nevo and Goldman Sachs.