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Michael Lavner

SaaS & AI Partner at Exor Ventures

London, England

Overview 

Michael Lavner is currently a SaaS & AI Partner at Exor Ventures in London, England, with previous roles at Balderton Capital and Permira. Notable achievements include investing in companies like ZELIQ at the seed stage and serving as a board member for ZELIQ and Jigsaw at the Series A stage.

Work Experience 

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Ora Global

  • Founding Partner

    2025 - Current

    Ora Global is a venture capital firm that backs extraordinary founders building a more resilient future. Ora Global spun out of Exor, a 100+ year owner-operator of iconic companies, and shares the same deeply-rooted builders' DNA. The team brings public and private markets experience and a proven track record, having backed over 100 startups globally – including trailblazers such as Crusoe, Mistral, Neuralink, Via, Wayve and Physical Intelligence. Our focus areas include AI infrastructure, physical and digital security, industrial automation, supply chain resilience and energy independence.

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Exor Ventures

  • Partner

    2023

    Led European + AI / SaaS efforts - Investments: Jigsaw (Dec-23, £12M Series A), Zeliq (Mar-24, $10M Seed), Bee AI (Jun-24, $7M Seed), Inbolt (July-24, €15M Series A), Jet HR (Oct-24, $12M Seed) - Additional boards / involvement: Resilience Care (Healthcare, Series A), Nebuly (AIOps, Seed), Arke (Vertical SaaS, Seed)

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Jet HR

  • Board Member

    2024

    AI-driven payroll solution Co-led $12M Seed in Q4-24

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inbolt

  • Board Observer

    2024

    AI-enabled real-time robot guidance solution Led €15M Series A in Q3-24

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Bee

  • Investor

    2024

    Wearable AI assistant Co-led $7M Seed in Q2-24

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ZELIQ

  • Board Member

    2024

    AI-first sales enablement solution Led $10M Seed in Q1-24

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Jigsaw

  • Investor

    2023

    AI-powered platform for corporate structuring Led £12M Series A in Q4-23

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Brigad

  • Board Observer

    2023 - 2023

    On-demand marketplace connecting vetted workers with businesses for short-term, short-notice jobs Led €33M Series B in Q1-23

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deepset

  • Investor

    2023 - 2023

    LLM-powered enterprise search platform (and open-source framework Haystack) allowing teams to develop AI use cases with their own data, securely – without the need for ML expertise Led $30M round in Q2-23

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Cognism

  • Board Observer

    2023 - 2023

    RevOps and Sales Intelligence platform Led $50M Series D in Q1-23

Education 

Investments 

ZELIQ

Seed

Total funding: $15M

Jigsaw

Series A

Total funding: $15M

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