Investor Type | Firm |
Industries | Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • HealthTech (& Fitness) |
Stages | Early,Seed,Later |
Investing | United States |
Investment Range | $1,500,000 - $20,580,000 |
Founded in 1997, Lazard Technology Partners is a venture firm dedicated to being a capital partner of choice for exceptional management teams with the vision, capacity and commitment to create leading information technology and technology-enabled businesses. Managing over $400 million, the firm has invested in more than 35 companies since 1998. To identify outstanding opportunities and help entrepreneurs build world-class companies, Lazard concentrates its efforts on sectors where the firm has deep experience: communications; infrastructure software; business process applications and services; and technology-enabled financial- or information services companies. Lazard's investments range from seed and first-round financings in early-stage companies to later-stage growth capital. The Partners typically invest an initial amount of $2 million to $8 million and generally reserve up to a total of $15 million to $20 million for the lifetime of an investment. The firm has offices in New York and Washington D.C. Particularly for early-stage investments, it prefers companies that are in New England or the Mid-Atlantic region, proximate to its offices.