Moritz Baier-lentz
Partner at Lightspeed India Partners Advisors LLP
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2022 - Current
Leading Lightspeed's gaming & interactive media practice. We support extraordinary entrepreneurs with $29 billion in assets, deep domain expertise, a truly global platform, and a culture that puts founders first—from first check to IPO, with 200+ exits to date.
Lead Investor & Board Director, Inworld AI
2023
The leading AI-native game engine, built by world-class AI experts from Google and DeepMind who pioneered generative AI; live integrations with Unity, Unreal, Roblox, Minecraft, and 100+ AAA/AA projects.
Lead Investor & Board Director, Gardens Interactive
2023
4x "Game of the Year" designers (Sky, Journey) crafting a game inspired by their favorite experiences playing MMOs and fantasy ARPGs over the years—particularly moments shared with strangers.
Lead Investor & Board Director, k-ID
2024
The leading cross-platform, instant sign-on solution for kids and teens. An all-in-one answer for solving the complex global issues of privacy and online safety, integrated with many of the largest publishers worldwide.
Lead Investor & Board Director, The Believer Company
2022
Former Executive Producers of League of Legends and Wild Rift—games that collectively grossed well over $10 billion to date. Now, the duo is on a mission to bring previously impossible player dreams to life.
Lead Investor & Board Director, Volley
2022
Highest-grossing AI-powered game company, building voice-enabled experiences for Amazon Alexa, Fire TVs, Roku TVs, and mobile devices—leveraging voice recognition, LLM content, and speech synthesis.
Lead Investor & Board Director, 1047 Games
2022
Started in a Stanford dorm, this 150+ team is building Splitgate 2, a flagship FPS title launching in 2025—the original Splitgate scored over 15 million downloads. (Lightspeed investment before joining the firm.)
Lead Investor & Board Director, Methodical Games
2022
Industry veterans from Epic Games, Respawn Entertainment, and Infinity Ward lleveraging their experience creating Fortnite, Apex Legends, and Call of Duty. (Lightspeed investment before joining the firm.)
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
Delegate, Annual Meeting
2023
Invited on a "white badge" for the Annual Meetings of 2024 & 2025 alongside leaders from over 100 governments and CEOs of the world's most impactful companies.
Advisor, AI Governance Alliance
2024
Committed to fostering inclusive, ethical, and sustainable AI, my personal focus within the broader initiative is on generative AI applications in gaming and interactive media.
Advisor & Founding Member, Technology Convergence Working Group
2024
Accelerating the impact of cutting-edge development to contribute to solving humanity’s greatest challenges, including AI, quantum computing, computer vision, and advanced materials & manufacturing.
Advisor & Founding Member, Metaverse Initiative
2021
Building an equitable, interoperable, and safe Metaverse; together with key constituents of the global technology and media ecosystem; and writing about gaming, interactive media, and extended reality (AR/VR).
Young Global Leader & Los Angeles Local Chair
2023
Working with civic and business leaders, technologists, educators, activists, and journalists from 120 countries to tackle challenges of global public interest. (Nomination by David M. Rubenstein.)
30 Under 30 Judge, Gaming
2023
Combing through thousands of online submissions and recommendations from industry sources and Forbes alumni to select the definitive list of young people changing the world of gaming.
30 Under 30 Honoree, Finance
2016
Met my wife, some of my best friends, and amazing communities in New York and Los Angeles. Originally made the list for my work at the intersection of Wall Street and Silicon Valley while at Goldman Sachs.
Forbes Magazine is a business magazine that is focused on business news and financial information.
Raised $200,000,000.00 from Binance.
Partner & Management Team
2020 - 2023
Raised ~$850 million and built the most impactful gaming VC firm and lead investor of 2020, 2021, and 2022; very proud of what we created as a team.
Founder & Global Head of Gaming Practice
2016 - 2019
Started the firm's global gaming practice (#1 in gaming M&A since) and worked closely with the world’s leading gaming and interactive media companies, including Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, and Take-Two.
Vice President / Executive Director, Technology Investment Banking
2014 - 2019
Advised on over $300 billion deal volume across M&A and IPOs (incl. Dell's $67 billion acquisition of EMC and IBM's $34 billion purchase of Red Hat). Covered enterprise IT and deep tech (incl. SpaceX and Palantir).
Investor, Growth-Stage Venture Capital
2014 - 2019
As part of TMT's direct placements, invested in early growth-stage rounds in SpaceX (2017 & 2018), Palantir (2017; IPO at NYSE: PLTR in 2020), and Compass (2017; IPO at NYSE: COMP in 2021).
Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Guest Lecturer, Gaming
2018 - 2018
Assisted in the preparation and teaching of a gaming and esports module for the inaugural program "Building Sports Businesses" at Harvard Business School.
Council Member & Speaker, German American Conference at Harvard
2016 - 2018
Helped bring together American and German leaders from business, politics, and academia for the largest student-led conference on transatlantic relations in the United States.
Advisor to the U.S. Digital Service
2014 - 2015
Advanced the cooperation among government agencies, technology corporations, and research universities with a focus on talent exchange between the White House and Silicon Valley.
Council on Environmental Quality works in the development of environmental policies.
Voting Member of the Board of Trustees
2014 - 2015
As a graduate representative and member of the Globalization Committee, helped guide the policies for operation and control of the university.
Strategy Consultant
2014 - 2014
Worked with C-level management of a publicly listed company on a project at the interface of business strategy and technology (MBA internship, received full-time offer).
McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity
Data Scientist & Engagement Manager
2006 - 2013
Advised IBM's CEO, CFO, and country general managers as part of an internal unit that pioneered data science and artificial intelligence (IBM Watson).
IBM is an IT technology and consulting firm providing computer hardware, software, infrastructure, and hosting services.