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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 are currently investing out of a $450M fund and are proud to have backed transformational companies like Rippling, Box, Twilio, Doximity, Remitly, Livongo, and Redfin.

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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