Alex Taussig

I'm thrilled to announce today that I am joining the board of United Rentals (NYSE: URI), the world’s largest equipment rental company and a core partner to the global construction and industrial e...

Come work with an excellent team building at the intersection of AI and higher education!

LLMs will drive a separation between marketplaces that simply fulfill occasional information requests and those that actively curate/manage supply, guarantee trust & safety, fulfill orders, and ser...

I enjoyed participating on the #NextGen board director panel at Arizona State University, alongside Julia Lewis and Bessie Watts. Thanks to Julia for compiling some shared insights below, and to Ja...

Proud of my friends Anamitra Banerji and Gaurav Jain of Afore Capital for hosting year 9 of the #preseedsummit with standing room only!

Vinted — now live in 26 countries! 🥳

Join Outsmart and build at the intersection of education and AI. 🦉📚🧠🤖

Vinted’s new ad campaign is completely created with AI, even the music (by another Lightspeed portfolio company: Suno!). A little glimpse of the future of advertising here.

Vinted went live with its "New Eras Again" campaign. Vinted has its roots in fashion, but today is so much more. Check out the video below!

I am delighted to join Dick Patton, Liz Lempres, and Anne Bramman on stage at the #NACDSummit on October 12th in Washington, DC for a discussion on how boards can navigate governance and succession...

The team at Table22 has been hard at work using AI to help F&B merchants launch new revenue streams with a few prompts and clicks. Excited to see these new tools in the wild, driving results for cu...

Every brand needs a resale strategy, or they’re ignoring a huge opportunity to serve customers. ♻️

I'm excited to announce our portfolio company Outsmart, led by ex-Duolingo execs, just raised a $25M round led by DST Global and Forerunner. We joined in on this opportunity (again!) alongside Khos...

The Atlantico Digital Transformation Report has become my go-to read each year for the state of the technology ecosystem in LATAM. Congrats to my friends Julio Vasconcellos and Ana Clara Martins on...

Faire is ascending to new heights, as shown below. The company's leadership (Max, Jeffrey, Marcelo, Jason, Thuan, Jennifer, and others) has done an exceptional job navigating a volatile macro envir...

📚Outsmart (Gina Gotthilf Jorge Mazal Daniel Falabella) is looking for PM #1 to build an exciting project at the intersection of AI and higher education. Incredible founding team out of Duolingo. De...

Proud to support Oisin Hanrahan, Umang Dua, and the Keychain team from Day 1 at Lightspeed!

🔑 Lightspeed has supported Keychain from Day 1 and again in this Series B round. Congratulations to founders Umang Dua and Oisin Hanrahan on the raise and the launch of KeychainOS, the AI operating...

Resale delivers incremental customers and produces significantly more purchase volume from recurring buyers. Win-win!

These videos from Skild AI demonstrate viscerally how much of a step change in physical automation we’ve seen in the last few years.