Jana Messerschmidt Biography

Jana Messerschmidt is an investor and venture capitalist at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Jana joined Lightspeed’s consumer investing team after years of investing in and advising early stage companies and holding a variety of roles across engineering business development sales and marketing throughout her career at high growth companies. Jana has been at the intersection of business and technology her entire career. After receiving a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois she eventually found herself on the business side of tech. As Vice President of Global Business Development and Platform at Twitter Jana was responsible for strategic partnerships enterprise sales developer relations partner engineering and platform marketing. Prior to joining Twitter Jana was Director of Business Development at Netflix where she focused on building Netflix’s early streaming partnerships. In 2015 Jana co-founded #ANGELS a first of its kind investment collective with A CLEARLY DEFINED MISSION TO GET MORE WOMEN ON THE CAP TABLES OF SUCCESSFUL STARTUPS. Since then she’s backed ambitious founders pursuing bold ideas across a wide range of industries including BIRD CAMEO COLOR EERO WINNIE and more.

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