Announcing Our Newest Team Member: Mirit Lugassi
Laconia’s team has always been small but mighty. Whether we’re in the biggest bull market in history or a painful correction, we’ve always been laser-focused on finding b2b software companies transforming how business is done.
As we head into what is sure to be a very busy Q4, we are excited to announce that Mirit Lugassi has joined our investment team. Mirit is a startup operator with more than a decade of global experience (US, UK, Israel & Europe) building early-stage companies in the b2b software space. Mirit has transformed companies and teams taking on positions such as Head of Growth & Customer Success at DueDil (Acquired by Artesian) and VP of Customer Operations at a high-growth early-stage Edtech startup. She’s driven results like increasing ARRs by 10x, accelerating customer acquisition by 5x per month, and closing Series A investment rounds.
Before joining Laconia’s investment team Mirit helped build two cutting-edge operations: 51 Unicorns, an investment club aimed at female retail investors, and SeedImpact, an alternative investment firm orchestrating investment opportunities between mission-driven angel investors and underrepresented founders. Mirit is also an alumna of Included VC, a venture fellowship for leaders on a mission to diversify and change the face of the VC industry.
Mirit’s operational background bolsters Laconia’s support for founders. As we’ve gotten to know Mirit, we’ve been impressed not only by her deep expertise but also by her ability to learn quickly, intuition for exciting business opportunities, and instinct for potential in founders. At the same time, Mirit brings a critical eye to the structural challenges facing the VC industry and a genuine interest in driving change.
If you bump into her at any NY Tech events or at our office for TechScape during a quick break, please give her a warm welcome! You can reach her directly at mirit at laconiacapitalgroup dot com.
Sports Recruits Partners with HTX Soccer
HTX Soccer partnered with Sport Recruits, streamlining their athlete recruitment process with the Sports Recruits platform, providing more opportunities for college recruitment to more students.
Sports Recruits has integrated both platforms to streamline the college recruiting process to provide additional resources and tools. This user-friendly platform offers an extensive college networking database connecting high school athletes, parents, clubs, and college coaches, creating exciting opportunities for all.
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Ocrolus partners with Blooma to revolutionize commercial real estate loan underwriting
In the ever-evolving landscape of commercial real estate (CRE) lending, efficiency and accuracy are paramount for success. With Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data standardization, two industry leaders, Blooma and Ocrolus, are partnering up to revolutionize CRE loan underwriting. Together, they are helping to offer lenders the types of intelligent solutioning they need to bring about a new era of efficiency and profitability in the CRE lending space.
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Ocrolus introduces Instant - the quicker way to make important lending decisions
Instant is not a new product, but a new machine-only offering within Ocrolus’ document automation solution. Leveraging the same AI-driven automation technology that Ocrolus customers have come to trust, Instant gives lenders a second option of a more time- and cost-efficient document automation solution.
As more documents have been processed over time, automation capabilities have improved to the point where Instant is as an unbundled machine-only solution to the market.
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