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Luciana Lixandru: Who Are The Daring People Who Will Build The Next Legendary European Companies?

“You have to allow yourself to dream as a venture capitalist. Every single company can die in 1000 different ways and succeed in just a couple.” Luciana Lixandru Luciana Lixandru, Partner at Sequoia, focuses on enterprise and consumer technology companies across Europe and co-leads Sequoia's early-stage investment business. She is a Director of Pennylane, Robco, Stripe, Tacto, and VEED, and is passionate about helping founders unlock their potential and think on a global scale. Luciana joined Sequoia in 2021 to help open its London office - while the firm had been partnering with founders in Europe for years, a team on the ground has enabled them to spot outliers earlier and partner more deeply. With a decade of experience in the European venture market, including her previous role as a partner at Accel, Luciana has deep domain expertise, having backed giants like UiPath (PATH), Deliveroo (DROOF), and Miro, among others. About 30% of LDV Capital investments in each fund are founded in Europe and we continue to see tremendous investment opportunities across Europe. LDV was the first investor in Mapillary, which Sequoia also invested in and later it was acquired by Meta. Other European LDV companies include Gardin, Earkick, VitVio, Synthesia and others. Luciana and Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, discussed Luciana’s early investments such as UiPath, a company that originally leveraged computer vision and spent a decade searching for product-market fit before becoming extremely successful. They also discussed trends and early-stage investment opportunities in businesses leveraging visual technologies and AI. 05:54 - A formative 8 years for European tech 10:31 - How long does it take to get to conviction? 12:31 - Different companies take different times to product market fit 15:44 - Is it more about the people, or is it more about the business model and market? 17:37 - Are there certain sectors that excite you more than others? 22:45 - Every single company can die in a thousand different ways, and succeed in just a couple. 25:44 - Companies that leverage visual tech 27:02 - What’s the best and the least best personality trait of an entrepreneur? 29:43 - What’s the most difficult part of your job? 31:13 - How do you see the signal to the noise in your mind? 33:52 - Advice to entrepreneurs wanting to start business Links https://www.ldv.co/visionsummit https://www.sequoiacap.com/people/luc... About our 2025 LDV Vision Summit: https://www.ldv.co/blog/thank-you-for... LDV Capital invests in people building businesses powered by visual technologies. We thrive on collaborating with deep, technical teams leveraging computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to analyze visual data. We are the only venture capital firm with this thesis. Building a business that leverages visual tech/AI? It’s never too early to reach out. We are looking to partner with outliers that are building leapfrog deep tech solutions aimed to improve the world and making all of us a lot of money while we sleep!