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Liza Benson
Partner,
Morderne Ventures
About Liza
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. Moderne Ventures is an early stage investment fund and industry immersion program which is focused on investing in technology companies in and around the multi-trillion dollar industries of real estate, mortgage, finance, insurance and home services.
Prior to Moderne, Liza was a Partner with StarVest Partners, a $400M venture fund focused on expansion stage B2B SaaS investments. Previously, Liza was a Managing Director in the growth equity group at Highbridge Principals Strategies, a multi-billion asset manager. Before her experience at Highbridge, Liza 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: Super Home Services, 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.
Ms. Benson received a BA in Mathematical Economics, summa cum laude, from Colgate University.
