
Formerly Partner at Lightspeed | Building Something New
Website: www.mercedesbent.com Twitter: @mercebent Investor in Stori (consumer fintech), Honeylove (consumer), Atlas (fintech), Forage (SaaS/Edtech), Beek (consumer), Fidu (fintech) + more. As an angel, I'm an investor in Willow Voice and many stealth seed AI companies: women's health, professional network / ai digital twin, global fund administration, multimodal photos / hardware, entertainment / ai companion, equipment procurement + risk planning, and a spatial reasoning model. At Lightspeed, I'm an investor in Stori (fintech) Honeylove (consumer), Forage (HR/edtech), Beek (consumer), Fidu (fintech), Atlas (fintech) + more. See all here https://lsvp.com/team/mercedes-bent/ I'm a former operator turned investor who lives and breathes startups. I invest in the technical founders with insights about how new technology is changing our behavior.
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San Francisco, California, United States
Venture Partner
Lightspeed
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Feb 2025 - Present
Partner
Lightspeed Venture Partners
• www.linkedin.com/company/lightspeed-venture-partners
Aug 2019 - Feb 2025
San Francisco Bay Area
Board Member
Stori
• www.linkedin.com/company/stori-card
Jan 2021 - Present
Board Observer
Honeylove
• www.linkedin.com/company/honeylove-sculptwear
Jan 2019 - Present
Vice President
Upload
• www.linkedin.com/company/upload-
Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles
General Manager & Product Manager
General Assembly
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Jul 2012 - Nov 2016
New York and San Francisco Bay Area
Financial Analyst
Goldman Sachs
• www.linkedin.com/company/goldman-sachs
Jan 2010 - Dec 2012
Greater New York City Area