Moritz Baier-Lentz
Partner & Head of Gaming @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
New York, United States
Moritz Baier-Lentz is a Series A investor at Lightspeed Venture Partners in New York focused on Gaming and Video Games. Moritz is a senior partner and the head of gaming & interactive media at Lightspeed, a globally leading VC firm with 13 offices, $43 billion in assets, and over 200 exits across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. In 2023 and 2024, founders selected Lightspeed as the #1 lead investor in the gaming industry.Moritz hosts the annual CEO Forum at GDC,the world's leading gathering of gaming CEOs, and is an investor, board member, and advisor to founders who led the creation of multi-billion dollar platforms and technologies. He made early institutional investments in OpenAI, SpaceX, and Palantir—resulting in top-percentile IRR and DPI track records to date.An advocate for world models, Moritz is also a founding member of General Intuition, a research lab that trains spatiotemporal agents on proprietary video game data. The startup raised over $130 million from Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst, the largest Seed funding in gaming history.Prior, Moritz was a partner and management team member at VC firm BITKRAFT, where he helped scale assets to $850 million. Before that, Moritz was a top-ranked vice president at Goldman Sachs, where he founded and led the firm’s global gaming practice. During his tenure, he advised clients on over $300 billion in M&A, IPOs, and other transactions. Preceding his finance career, he worked in strategy roles at IBM, McKinsey & Co., and The White House.A lifelong gamer, Moritz spent his teenage years competing in Blizzard’s Diablo II, culminating in a #1 ranking among over 12 million players. The first in his family to graduate high school, he sold the virtual items earned in-game to afford his college tuition—two decades before digital asset trading entered the mainstream.Moritz holds an M.B.A. and M.A. from Stanford, where he graduated as Arjay Miller Scholar and ERP Scholar (“German Rhodes”), and previously studied machine learning, philosophy, and psychology at Harvard University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, and Berlin School of Economics. He was recognized among the “30 Under 30” (Forbes), “40 Under 40” (Capital), and “Young Global Leaders” (World Economic Forum).In his personal time, Moritz is an avid Ironman and ultramarathon athlete, including the 257 km Marathon des Sables and the World Marathon Challenge (7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 consecutive days), and a loving girl dad.
- Total investments:
- 28
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 57%
Last updated:
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Industries Moritz Baier-Lentz invests in
Stages Moritz Baier-Lentz invests in
Countries Moritz Baier-Lentz invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $4.5M–$134M
- Series A
- $12M–$56M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $5.5M–$300M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Gaming 7 (25%)
- Video Games 5 (18%)
- Information Technology 5 (18%)
- Software 4 (14%)
- Online Games 4 (14%)
Stage
- Series A 11 (39%)
- Seed 7 (25%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (11%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (7%)
- Series B 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 16 (57%)
- Canada 1 (4%)
- Germany 1 (4%)
- Singapore 1 (4%)
- United Kingdom 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Decart
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Decart is an AI platform significantly improves the training and inference of large generative models. | $300M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 18, 2026 | |
Recursive
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Recursive Superintelligence develops artificial intelligence systems designed to autonomously improve their own capabilities through recursive self-learning processes. The company focuses on building AI models and frameworks that can iteratively refine their performance without direct human intervention, targeting the automation of the full AIdevelopment lifecycle. Its technology aims to handle tasks such as experiment design, model training, evaluation, and optimization within a continuous feedback loop, enabling AI systems to enhance themselves over time. This approach is based on recursive methodologies, where outputs are used to inform subsequent improvements, supporting the development of increasingly capable machine learning systems.The company operates as an AI research and development platform, combining machine learning, deep learning, and automated decision-making processes to reduce reliance on manual engineering workflows. Its systems are intended for applications that require scalable AI development, including advanced research, enterprise AI deployment, and complex data-driven environments. | $650M / Series A / Apr 18, 2026 | |
General Intuition
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General Intuition is a frontier research lab focused on teaching machines to learn and adapt through play, aiming to build artificial intelligence that can perceive, anticipate, and improvise in real-world dynamics, with gaming as a central domain for testing and innovation. | $133.7M / Seed / Oct 16, 2025 | |
Volley
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Volley is the leading creator of AI-powered games for smart TVs and Amazon Alexa devices. Popular Volley games include Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, 20 Questions, and Question of the Day. The company's platform offers a wide range of voice-based games and develops interactive stories and podcasts with artificial intelligence systems, enablingusers to enjoy audio entertainment experiences. | $55M / Series C / Jul 09, 2024 | |
k-ID
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k-ID is transforming the way kids and teens access age-appropriate game experiences and helping developers comply with complex global regulations with a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive suite of tools that make online game platforms safer, better, faster, and more empowering for young players. | $45M / Series A / Jun 25, 2024 | |
Inworld AI
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Inworld AI is a realtime AI model and infrastructure company, and the leading consumer AI infrastructure platform. Inworld provides industry-leading realtime generative models, including the world’s #1-ranked voice AI models, intelligent model routing and optimization, and an Agent Runtime, enabling developers to build and deploy interactive AIapplications to millions of concurrent users.Inworld primarily serves use cases where realtime interaction and sophisticated agent capabilities are critical, such as companion apps, developer assistants, and agents for learning & education, health & wellness, interactive media and enterprise. At its core, Inworld is a product-oriented research lab of top AI researchers and engineers. The founding team led product for LLMs at DeepMind and built Dialogflow, the conversational AI platform acquired by Google. Inworld has raised $125M+ from Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, CRV, Stanford, Microsoft M12, Meta, Intel Capital, Samsung NEXT, LG Tech Ventures, and Bitkraft among others. | $56M / Aug 02, 2023 | |
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Inworld AI
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Inworld AI is a realtime AI model and infrastructure company, and the leading consumer AI infrastructure platform. Inworld provides industry-leading realtime generative models, including the world’s #1-ranked voice AI models, intelligent model routing and optimization, and an Agent Runtime, enabling developers to build and deploy interactive AIapplications to millions of concurrent users.Inworld primarily serves use cases where realtime interaction and sophisticated agent capabilities are critical, such as companion apps, developer assistants, and agents for learning & education, health & wellness, interactive media and enterprise. At its core, Inworld is a product-oriented research lab of top AI researchers and engineers. The founding team led product for LLMs at DeepMind and built Dialogflow, the conversational AI platform acquired by Google. Inworld has raised $125M+ from Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, CRV, Stanford, Microsoft M12, Meta, Intel Capital, Samsung NEXT, LG Tech Ventures, and Bitkraft among others. | $56M / Series B / Aug 02, 2023 | |
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Inworld AI
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Inworld AI is a realtime AI model and infrastructure company, and the leading consumer AI infrastructure platform. Inworld provides industry-leading realtime generative models, including the world’s #1-ranked voice AI models, intelligent model routing and optimization, and an Agent Runtime, enabling developers to build and deploy interactive AIapplications to millions of concurrent users.Inworld primarily serves use cases where realtime interaction and sophisticated agent capabilities are critical, such as companion apps, developer assistants, and agents for learning & education, health & wellness, interactive media and enterprise. At its core, Inworld is a product-oriented research lab of top AI researchers and engineers. The founding team led product for LLMs at DeepMind and built Dialogflow, the conversational AI platform acquired by Google. Inworld has raised $125M+ from Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, CRV, Stanford, Microsoft M12, Meta, Intel Capital, Samsung NEXT, LG Tech Ventures, and Bitkraft among others. | $56M / Series A / Aug 02, 2023 | |
Gardens
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Founded by designers of such award-winning indie titles as Journey, What Remains of Edith Finch, Dustforce, Blaseball, and more, Gardens Interactive is a game studio focused on the future of online play, growing lush, living spaces that need to be cared for by their communities, and fostering meaningful, memorable stories between players around theworld. | $31.3M / Series A / May 31, 2023 | |
The Believer Company
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The Believer Company is a game development studio dedicated to putting the player at the center of their games. It has game developers from all over the world who have created games ranging from Words With Friends to League of Legends, Destiny to PvZ. | $55M / Series A / Mar 07, 2023 | |
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Co-Investors
About Lightspeed Venture Partners
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies.Lightspeed Venture Partners invests invarious sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social.
Lightspeed Venture Partners Contacts
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Galym Imanbayev
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James Ephrati
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Justin Overdorff
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Michael Mignano
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FAQ
What does Moritz Baier-Lentz invest in?
Moritz Baier-Lentz invests primarily in Gaming, Video Games and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 28 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 Moritz Baier-Lentz's check size?
Moritz Baier-Lentz typically joins rounds of $4.5M–$134M at Seed, $12M–$56M at Series A and $5.5M–$300M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Moritz Baier-Lentz participates in.
When did Moritz Baier-Lentz last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Moritz Baier-Lentz closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 28 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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