# Christian Leone

> Christian Leone is a seed investor at Luxor Capital Group (New York) backing Travel and Leisure. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Luxor Capital Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luxor-capital-group)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Feb 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-leone-6274711a

Christian Leone is a seed investor at Luxor Capital Group in New York focused on Travel and Leisure. Christian Leone is the founder of Luxor Capital Group, LP. In addition to being CEO, Mr. Leone is a Portfolio Manager and sits on the firm’s Investment and Risk Committees. Mr. Leone began his career with Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he worked in the U.S. and European high yield and distressed debt groups. In March of 2000, he left Goldman tostart WideRay Corporation, a Sequoia Capital funded wireless hardware, software and network infrastructure company. Mr. Leone left WideRay in 2002 to start Luxor. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Economics.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Travel | 1 | 50% |
| Leisure | 1 | 50% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 50% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sweden | 1 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Montage Hotels & Resorts | Montage Hotels & Resorts, a hotel management company, consists of a collection of luxury hotels, resorts and residences that are perfect |  | Private Equity | Feb 24, 2024 |  |
| Briqpay | Briqpay provides solutions to enable and make business-to-business sales online more accessible. With Briqpay, merchants can have full control of the entire customer journey, from creating an account to the checkout and finally analyzing the data in their back office. | $2.4M | Seed | Aug 24, 2021 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [31 Atlantic Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/31-atlantic-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BlackRock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackrock) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [eEquity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eequity) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Goldman Sachs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goldman-sachs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Luxor Capital Group

VC Fund · New York, United States

Luxor Capital Group is a hedge fund that offers equity and fixed income investments. It also provides its customers with investment advisory services. Luxor Capital Group was founded by Christian Leone and is based in New York.

3 contacts available at Luxor Capital Group.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Christian Leone | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-leone |
| Douglas Snyder | President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/douglas-snyder |
| Jonathan Green | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-green-5 |

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## FAQ

### What does Christian Leone invest in?

Christian Leone invests primarily in Travel, Leisure and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Private Equity stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Christian Leone last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Christian Leone closed in Feb 2024. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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