Lauren DeMeuse
Lauren DeMeuse is Partner and Chief Operating Officer at Theory Ventures, a venture capital firm she helped build alongside founder Tomasz Tunguz. She previously spent nearly seven years at Palantir Technologies in leadership roles spanning healthcare, product management, and internal operations, and served as CEO of Roam Analytics prior to its acquisition by Parexel International. She is best known for applying Palantir's forward-deployment model to venture capital, building Theory's intelligence team to provide hands-on operational support to portfolio companies. She holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and an AB in Molecular Biology from Princeton University.
“Capital and advice get a startup most of the way, while the hardest work, from first sales hires to executive searches, happens inside the company.”
“Lauren DeMeuse at Theory Ventures explains how the firm borrowed Palantir's forward-deployment model for portfolio support, sending operators to work inside companies as an extra pair of hands.”
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