About

Lauren is an investor and advisor to various startups, institutions, and funds, guiding her clients on their crypto investments and strategy. Prior to this, she was a General Partner at Pantera Capital where she oversaw the firm’s growth from $300M in AUM in 2018 to over $5B in AUM today. She led diligence on close to 100 deals, including Arbitrum’s seed round and Alchemy’s Series A, while also sourcing and executing her own investments into infrastructure and decentralized finance, including Morpho, Staked (exited to Kraken), and Definitive Intelligence (exited to Groq, later NVIDIA). She additionally spent time as an Independent Board Director for Bitwise Asset Management, overseeing their actively managed fund. She now serves Pantera and her portfolio companies as a Venture Partner.


Outside of her advisory and investment work, Lauren is a solidity engineer, using her skillset to highlight and build use cases for her portfolio companies, such as Flashbots and Arbitrum. She has also written several viral data analysis pieces for the benefit of founders, which have received millions of impressions combined.


Prior to working at Pantera, she spent time in trading at Bank of America and software development at Fidessa after receiving a degree in computer science from Columbia University. Her personal interests include lifting, laying poolside, and home-cooked Persian food.

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