Gary Lauder
Founder & Managing Director @ Lauder Partners
Mountain View, United States
Gary Lauder is a Series B investor at Lauder Partners in Mountain View focused on Software and Mobile. Gary Lauder is the Founder & Managing Director of Lauder Partners LLC, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm investing primarily in information technologies. He has been a venture capitalist since 1985, investing in over 80 private companies. He is also Chairman of ActiveVideo Networks. Other directorships: OnLive, net2tv, Promptu,MediaFriends and ShotSpotter. Investments are primarily in television/IPTV technology and WWW arenas. In the 1980's, he worked at the venture firms of Aetna, Jacobs & Ramo Technology Ventures, as well as Wolfensohn Associates. He holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania; a BS in Economics from the Wharton School; and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is the co-creator of the Aspen Institute's Socrates Society with Laura, his wife. He is a member of the inaugural class of the Aspen Institute's Henry Crown Fellowship Program. He has had a working cable modem (usually) in his home since 1994. He is co-inventor of 12 patents, has spoken at over 100 industry forums, and, since 1992, has published several articles about the future of the cable industry...that he still stands by.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Gary Lauder invests in
Stages Gary Lauder invests in
Countries Gary Lauder invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Series A
- $1M–$22M
- Series B
- $9.4M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (29%)
- Mobile 2 (14%)
- Internet 2 (14%)
- Advertising 2 (14%)
- Information Technology 2 (14%)
Stage
- Series B 4 (29%)
- Series A 3 (21%)
- Seed 2 (14%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (7%)
- Series C 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 8 (57%)
- Canada 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Openwater is a startup developing a medical technology system focused on treating diseases at the cellular level. The company's device uses advanced optoelectronics to replace MRI technology. It has LCDs with small pixels to create holographic images that reduce scattering and achieve MRI-like resolution. This helps physicians diagnose andtreat diseases by targeting individual cells without affecting surrounding tissue. | $22M / Series A / Dec 10, 2018 | ||
| Openwater is a startup developing a medical technology system focused on treating diseases at the cellular level. The company's device uses advanced optoelectronics to replace MRI technology. It has LCDs with small pixels to create holographic images that reduce scattering and achieve MRI-like resolution. This helps physicians diagnose andtreat diseases by targeting individual cells without affecting surrounding tissue. | Seed / Mar 01, 2018 | ||
| Caavo is an entertainment obsessed hardware and software company. Our mission is to bring the art of TV viewing up to the level of today’s sophisticated audiences by uniting all of their entertainment into a single, elegant, voice controlled experience. Our products allow audiences to seamlessly move between linear TV, streaming services and webcontent, using voice or a single remote – to control it all. | $17.5M / Series B / Dec 19, 2017 | ||
| Stella is an industry consortium of large frontline and hourly employers who share non-hired and laid-off applicants with one another through the Stella marketplace. Using Stella's iOS, Android mobile apps and our map-based interface, job seekers can easily explore nearby network job openings. Applying is a snap thanks to our common jobapplication and tight employer ATS integrations. Applicants do not have to fill out the same information over and over again. This streamlined process improves the candidate experience by saving time and effort.Stella has raised $25M+ from world class investors. Dozens of America’s largest employers are already using Stella to hire talent and to help their laid-off employees find new work more quickly. More companies and jobs are being added every day. Our growing team is based in New York City and Sydney, Australia.Stella. Finding work has never been easier. Discover more at https://stella.jobs | $10.2M / Seed / Sep 15, 2016 | ||
| AnyRoad is the market leader in Experiential Marketing. AnyRoad’s industry-leading platform enables businesses to operate and optimize their events, tours, classes, and activations to grow consumer brand loyalty and drive greater ROI. | Pre-Seed / May 28, 2015 | ||
| LocoMobi is reinventing parking technology. LocoMobi is the only provider of unified physical, mobile and cloud-based parking technology. LocoMobi provides complete parking revenue and access control systems as are traditionally available, but all of which are connected in real-time to cloud-based servers and integrated with license platerecognizing cameras. LocoMobi is the result of a recent merger between QuickPay and Nautical Technologies. QuickPay provides users a unified mobile payment application that works across all types of parking environments and scenarios. Nautical Technologies was the very first company to offer a cloud-based license plate recognition (LPR) system with a complete revenue engine that also provides a management system for virtual permitting systems, violation and citation management. With these two innovators merging into one company we can now offer a full and ideal parking solution by combining the best integrated parking systems. | $5.5M / Series A / Dec 01, 2013 | ||
| ShotSpotter they helps local, state, and federal law enforcement respond to, investigate, and deter crime through gunshot detection and alerting systems; investigative tools that immediately generate leads and streamline case management to accelerate crime solving and improve clearance rates; and patrol management software. | $12M / Oct 02, 2012 | ||
| ShotSpotter they helps local, state, and federal law enforcement respond to, investigate, and deter crime through gunshot detection and alerting systems; investigative tools that immediately generate leads and streamline case management to accelerate crime solving and improve clearance rates; and patrol management software. | $6.9M / Jul 01, 2012 | ||
| Samba TV provides streaming services, connected devices, time-shifting, and multi-screen viewership, our data products solve real problems and create a meaningful competitive advantage for our clients given the dramatic growth in streaming services, connected devices, time-shifting, and multi-screen viewership. | $1M / Series A / May 02, 2012 | ||
| ShotSpotter they helps local, state, and federal law enforcement respond to, investigate, and deter crime through gunshot detection and alerting systems; investigative tools that immediately generate leads and streamline case management to accelerate crime solving and improve clearance rates; and patrol management software. | $10.5M / Jun 16, 2011 | ||
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About Lauder Partners
Lauder Partners, LLC is an entity investing in various realms of the technology field. Lauder invest both directly in companies as well as in funds - both venture and others. Since it primarily invests the capital of Gary Lauder and family members, we don't provide much information to the public.
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What does Gary Lauder invest in?
Gary Lauder invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Internet startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Gary Lauder's check size?
Gary Lauder typically joins rounds of $1M–$22M at Series A and $9.4M–$20M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Gary Lauder participates in.
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