Moderne Ventures
Liza Benson is a Partner with Moderne Ventures and helps lead and manage investment activity with particular focus on high-growth technology companies that can achieve rapid adoption and scale. Prior to Moderne, Liza was a Partner with StarVest Partners, focused on expansion stage B2B SaaS investments. Previously, Liza was a Managing Director of Highbridge Principals Strategies and invested primarily in online video, digital media, and marketing technologies and prior to that she was a Managing Director with Bear Stearns’ Constellation Growth Capital and an investment banker at Patricof & Co and First Union where she started her career.
Liza has been a board member or Observer in more than a dozen companies including Cxense [FRA:CXH], Widevine (sold to Google), Webify (sold to IBM), Siperian (sold to Informatica) and K12 [NYSE: LRN], Bench, Ceros, Transactis RAMP OpenSlate, Xignite, CrowdTwist and UrbanBound. She also led an investment in Capital IQ which was sold to McGraw-Hill.
Liza received a BA in Mathematical Economics, summa cum laude, from Colgate University.
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Moderne Ventures
Moderne Ventures’ Fund invests in early stage companies that have applicability in and around the real estate, insurance, finance, hospitality and home services industries—multi trillion dollar markets that represent 20% of the US GDP and billions of dollars of annual expenditures on marketing, technology and business services.