Lisa Besserman, Founder of Startup Buenos Aires, has been named as Business Insider’s “Top 100 Most Influential Women in Tech”, and the “Business Innovator of Latin America” by the Council of the Americas. She has also been credited as “The Woman Behind Argentina’s Startup Revolution”.
Lisa serves as the Managing Director at Expa a $350M venture fund and startup studio led by Garrett Camp (founder of Uber & StumbleUpon), investing in pre-seed to series A startups. She runs the day-to-day fund operations and manages a team of cross functional leaders across finance, legal, communications, HR, recruiting, portfolio success, operations, product, etc.
Prior to Expa, she was the Head of Indeed’s corporate Incubator in Austin, Texas, where she built and scaled the corporate venture studio, which resulted in the development of a $100M product.
Lisa is a Google Mentor and has been a judge for dozens of startup competitions around the world. She was recognized as a successful entrepreneur in Forbes magazine and an International spotlight entrepreneur from the U.S Department of State.
Lisa has been featured by CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Reuters, Entrepreneur Magazine, Fortune, and CNN. She has guest lectured on entrepreneurship and innovation to prominent universities such as NYU, MIT, Northwestern, Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania.
She finds it awkward to write about herself in the third person.
Lisa serves as the Managing Director at Expa a $350M venture fund and startup studio led by Garrett Camp (founder of Uber & StumbleUpon), investing in pre-seed to series A startups. She runs the day-to-day fund operations and manages a team of cross functional leaders across finance, legal, communications, HR, recruiting, portfolio success, operations, product, etc.
Prior to Expa, she was the Head of Indeed’s corporate Incubator in Austin, Texas, where she built and scaled the corporate venture studio, which resulted in the development of a $100M product.
Lisa is a Google Mentor and has been a judge for dozens of startup competitions around the world. She was recognized as a successful entrepreneur in Forbes magazine and an International spotlight entrepreneur from the U.S Department of State.
Lisa has been featured by CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Reuters, Entrepreneur Magazine, Fortune, and CNN. She has guest lectured on entrepreneurship and innovation to prominent universities such as NYU, MIT, Northwestern, Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania.
She finds it awkward to write about herself in the third person.