A quick intro
Hi! I’m Lauren. I’m a former public market trader and tech founder turned private tech investor.
The startup I founded, Blaze, was an AI first marketing platform. We raised $5M from investors like Lightspeed and Y Combinator and I led Product and GTM while there, scaling to 120 business customers over 18 months and building products that synthesized hundreds of millions of datapoints into actionable signals for our end customers.
I began my career as a fixed income trader at Goldman Sachs, where I designed, developed, and deployed quantitative trading algorithms and leveraged advanced statistical models to manage large-scale portfolios. I consistently oversaw risk transfer and capital allocation of billions of dollars for institutional clients, including some of the world’s largest corporates, hedge funds and asset managers.
I hold a double major in Mathematics + Economics from Trinity College Dublin and an MBA from Stanford.
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