Lisa Xu
Partner at Threshold Ventures
New York, New York
Overview
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