Liza Benson
Partner; Partner @ Moderne Ventures
New York, United States
Liza Benson is a Partner with Moderne Ventures and helps lead and manage investment activity with particular focus on high-growth technology companies that can achieve rapid adoption and scale. Prior to Moderne, Liza was a Partner with StarVest Partners, focused on expansion stage B2B SaaS investments. Previously, Liza was a Managing Director ofHighbridge Principals Strategies and invested primarily in online video, digital media, and marketing technologies and prior to that she was a Managing Director with Bear Stearns’ Constellation Growth Capital and an investment banker at Patricof & Co and First Union where she started her career.Liza has been a board member or Observer in more than a dozen companies including Cxense [FRA:CXH], Widevine (sold to Google), Webify (sold to IBM), Siperian (sold to Informatica) and K12 [NYSE: LRN], Bench, Ceros, Transactis RAMP OpenSlate, Xignite, CrowdTwist and UrbanBound. She also led an investment in Capital IQ which was sold to McGraw-Hill.Liza received a BA in Mathematical Economics, summa cum laude, from Colgate University.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 56%
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Industries Liza Benson invests in
Stages Liza Benson invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 2 (22%)
- Machine Learning 2 (22%)
- Financial Services 2 (22%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (22%)
- SaaS 1 (11%)
Stage
- Series B 5 (56%)
- Series A 2 (22%)
- Series C 2 (22%)
Investments
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| Sigma360 is is the definitive risk decisioning software platform. Developed at MIT, Sigma360 helps leading firms identify, screen, monitor and review clients and their relationships against the largest cloud-native risk intelligence database. The leadership team includes professionals with 50+ years of combined experience, including deep domainexpertise in computer science, law and government.Core platform solution areas: https://www.sigma360.com/solutions/adverse-media-screening https://www.sigma360.com/solutions/sanctions-and-watchlist-screening https://www.sigma360.com/solutions/enhanced-due-diligenceSigma was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Manhattan, New York. | $17.3M / Series B / Mar 10, 2026 | ||
| The Rounds offers delivery service with zero waste by refilling empty containers. | $24M / Series B / Aug 21, 2024 | ||
| Qloo develops an AI-powered personalization engine for cultural preferences, providing completely anonymized consumer taste data and recommendations for leading companies in the tech, entertainment, publishing, retail, travel, hospitality, and CPG sectors. The company's proprietary Taste AI predicts consumers' preferences and tastesacross over a dozen major categories, including music, film, television, podcasts, dining, nightlife, fashion, consumer products, books, and travel.Launched in 2012, Qloo combines the latest in machine learning, theoretical research in Neuroaesthetics, and one of the largest pipelines of detailed taste data —and makes all of this intelligence available through an API. By allowing companies to understand and connect with their target customers more effectively, it helps its clients solve real-world problems such as driving sales, saving money on media buys, choosing real estate locations, and building brands.Qloo is the parent company of TasteDive, a cultural recommendation engine, and social community that allows users to discover what to watch, read, listen to, and play based on their existing unique preferences. | $25M / Series C / Feb 21, 2024 | ||
| Kaiyo is an online marketplace that offers pre-owned furniture with sustainable design and provides pickup and delivery services. Its mission is to make beautiful furniture accessible to everyone and sustainable for the planet. | $36M / Series B / Mar 29, 2022 | ||
| MotoRefi is an auto refinance startup that helps customers to save on their car loan. Through partnerships with top local and community lenders, the company brings customers great rates and lower monthly payments, ultimately saving customers an average of $100 per month on their car payments.Its secure, digital platform makes it easy forcustomers to see exactly how much they can save and complete the refinance process quickly, all from the comfort of their home. What's more, MotoRefi does all the heavy lifting, including paying off the old lender as well as retitling the vehicle, saving the customers those dreaded trips to the DMV.MotoRefi was founded in 2016 and is based in Arlington, Virginia. | $50M / Series B / May 28, 2021 | ||
| Kaiyo is an online marketplace that offers pre-owned furniture with sustainable design and provides pickup and delivery services. Its mission is to make beautiful furniture accessible to everyone and sustainable for the planet. | $5M / Series A / May 17, 2021 | ||
| MotoRefi is an auto refinance startup that helps customers to save on their car loan. Through partnerships with top local and community lenders, the company brings customers great rates and lower monthly payments, ultimately saving customers an average of $100 per month on their car payments.Its secure, digital platform makes it easy forcustomers to see exactly how much they can save and complete the refinance process quickly, all from the comfort of their home. What's more, MotoRefi does all the heavy lifting, including paying off the old lender as well as retitling the vehicle, saving the customers those dreaded trips to the DMV.MotoRefi was founded in 2016 and is based in Arlington, Virginia. | $10M / Series A / Jan 22, 2021 | ||
| Xignite provides cloud-based financial market data APIs to help emerging companies and established enterprises deliver real-time and reference market data to their digital assets, such as websites and apps. Xignite’s clients include more than 1,000 financial services, media, and software companies from disruptive fintech firms. | $20.5M / Series C / Feb 08, 2016 | ||
| Xignite provides cloud-based financial market data APIs to help emerging companies and established enterprises deliver real-time and reference market data to their digital assets, such as websites and apps. Xignite’s clients include more than 1,000 financial services, media, and software companies from disruptive fintech firms. | $10.7M / Series B / Sep 13, 2011 |
Co-Investors
About Moderne Ventures
Moderne Ventures is a strategic venture capital and growth equity firm with a 17-year track record, generating top tier returns across four funds. Moderne is a generalist investor with vertical expertise with a particular focus on technologies like Enterprise SaaS, AI, Robotics, Deep Tech, Sustainability, Data and Digital Transaction Managementand targets technologies that can apply to both Moderne’s core industries and expand beyond them to deliver outsized venture returns.
Moderne Ventures Contacts
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Constance Freedman
Founder and Managing Partner
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Forrest Hardy
Passport Program Mentor
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Liza Benson
Partner; Partner
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Marie Kloor
Mentor
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Stephanie Koenig
Chief of Staff & Head of Investor Relations
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What does Liza Benson invest in?
Liza Benson invests primarily in FinTech, Machine Learning and Financial Services startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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