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Moritz Baier-lentz

Partner at Lightspeed

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2022

    Leading Lightspeed's gaming & interactive media practice. We support extraordinary entrepreneurs with $29 billion in assets, deep domain expertise, a truly global platform, and a culture that puts founders first—from first check to IPO, with 200+ exits to date.

  • Lead Investor & Board Director, Gardens Interactive

    2023

    4x "Game of the Year" designers (Sky, Journey) crafting a game inspired by their favorite experiences playing MMOs and fantasy ARPGs over the years—particularly moments shared with strangers.

  • Lead Investor & Board Director, k-ID

    2024

    The leading cross-platform, instant sign-on solution for kids and teens. An all-in-one answer for solving the complex global issues of privacy and online safety, integrated with many of the largest publishers worldwide.

  • Lead Investor & Board Director, Inworld AI

    2023

    The leading framework for developers of AI-native consumer applications, created by world-class experts who pioneered generative AI at Google and DeepMind.

  • Investor, OpenAI

    2024

    Leading AI frontier research lab and consumer product company on a mission to create artificial general intelligence. Maker of ChatGPT, used by almost 1 billion people every month.

  • Lead Investor & Board Director, The Believer Company

    2022

    Former Executive Producers of League of Legends and Wild Rift—games that collectively grossed well over $10 billion to date. Now, the duo is on a mission to bring previously impossible player dreams to life.

  • Lead Investor & Board Director, Volley

    2022

    Highest-grossing AI-powered game company, building voice-enabled experiences for Amazon Alexa, Fire TVs, Roku TVs, and mobile devices—leveraging voice recognition, LLM content, and speech synthesis.

  • Founding Team Member

    2025

    We founded the frontier research lab dedicated to games—and the real world. Raised $133.7M to build foundation models for environments that require deep spatial and temporal reasoning.

  • Delegate, Annual Meeting

    2023

    Invited on a "white badge" for the Annual Meetings of 2024 & 2025 alongside leaders from over 100 governments and CEOs of the world's most impactful companies.

  • Advisor, AI Governance Alliance / AI Transformation of Industries

    2024

    Committed to fostering inclusive, ethical, and sustainable AI, my personal focus within the broader initiative is on generative AI applications in gaming and interactive media.

  • Advisor & Founding Member, Technology Convergence Working Group

    2024

    Accelerating the impact of cutting-edge development to contribute to solving humanity’s greatest challenges, including AI, quantum computing, computer vision, and advanced materials & manufacturing.

  • Advisor & Founding Member, Metaverse Initiative

    2021

    Building an equitable, interoperable, and safe Metaverse; together with key constituents of the global technology and media ecosystem; and writing about gaming, interactive media, and extended reality (AR/VR).

  • Young Global Leader & Los Angeles Local Chair

    2023

    Working with civic and business leaders, technologists, educators, activists, and journalists from 120 countries to tackle challenges of global public interest. (Nomination by David M. Rubenstein.)

  • Guest Lecturer, Venture Capital

    2015

    Teaching about entrepreneurship and capital formation at Stanford's dy/dx program, in partnership between Lightspeed, Sequoia, Index, and Accel (previously lectured on gaming and adjacent topics).

  • Voting Member of the Board of Trustees

    2014 - 2015

    As a graduate representative and member of the Globalization Committee, helped guide the policies for operation and control of the university.

2020 - 2023

  • Partner & Management Team

    2020 - 2023

    Raised ~$850 million and built the most impactful gaming VC firm and lead investor of 2020, 2021, and 2022; very proud of what we created as a team.

2014 - 2019

  • Founder & Global Head of Gaming Practice

    2016 - 2019

    Started the firm's gaming practice (#1 in gaming M&A since) and worked closely with the world’s leading gaming and interactive media companies, including Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, and Take-Two.

  • Vice President / Executive Director, Technology Investment Banking (TMT)

    2014 - 2019

    Advised on over $300 billion deal volume across M&A and IPOs (incl. Dell's $67 billion acquisition of EMC and IBM's $34 billion purchase of Red Hat). Covered enterprise IT and deep tech (incl. SpaceX and Palantir).

  • Investor, Growth-Stage Venture Capital

    2014 - 2019

    As part of TMT's direct placements, invested in early growth-stage rounds in SpaceX (2017 & 2018), Palantir (2017; IPO at NYSE: PLTR in 2020), and Compass (2017; IPO at NYSE: COMP in 2021).

  • Guest Lecturer, Gaming & Interactive Media

    2018 - 2018

    Assisted in the preparation and teaching of a gaming and esports module for the inaugural program "Building Sports Businesses" at Harvard Business School.

  • Council Member & Speaker, German American Conference at Harvard

    2016 - 2018

    Helped bring together American and German leaders from business, politics, and academia for the largest student-led conference on transatlantic relations in the United States.

  • Advisor to the U.S. Digital Service (White House)

    2014 - 2015

    Advanced the cooperation among government agencies, technology corporations, and research universities with a focus on talent exchange between the White House and Silicon Valley.

2014 - 2014

  • Strategy Consultant

    2014 - 2014

    Worked with C-level management of a publicly listed company on a project at the interface of business strategy and technology (MBA internship, received full-time offer).

  • Data Scientist & Engagement Manager

    2006 - 2013

    Advised IBM's CEO, CFO, and country general managers as part of an internal strategy consulting division that also built and rolled out data science and AI solutions.