Thomas
Meier Managing Partner & Investment Committee

Thomas is Managing Partner at Lightbird and Partner at Marcau Partners. Prior to starting Lightbird, Thomas was a VC at Redalpine, where he worked on investments such as Taxfix, Inkitt, Carvolution and more. Before he worked in consulting, hedge funds and research. He holds an MSc in finance and is a member of Kauffman Fellows Class 24. Thomas is also Co-Founder and Board Member of S2S Ventures, Switzerland's first student-run VC.

Thomas is a family man. He loves spending his free time in the mountains or surfing a mellow wave.

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Benjamin
Solenthaler Managing Partner & Investment Committee

Benjamin is Managing Partner at Lightbird and Co-Founder of Marcau Partners. Originally, he was a computer scientist and landed in the VC world via a diversion in the corporate finance sector. Prior to Lightbird, Benjamin was a VC at Ringier Digital Ventures, where he led investments in CheckYeti, Insenio, Skoove and more.

As a passionate ice hockey player, Benjamin knows how to deal with wins and losses together as a team.

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Thuy-Linh
Uong Associate

Thuy-Linh is Associate at Lightbird and Marcau Partners. Prior to joining the team, Thuy-Linh was a strategy consultant for Monitor Deloitte working mostly with clients from the financial and healthcare industry. She previously also gained valuable experience in Impact Investment at Credit Suisse and in Private Equity at Flexstone Partners. Thuy-Linh holds a MSc in Financial Economics from the University of Oxford.

Thuy-Linh loves spending her free time with family and friends, may it be together on ski slopes, hiking trails or simply around some good food and drinks.

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Henrik
Reimavuo Associate

Henrik is an Associate at Lightbird and Marcau Partners. Prior to joining the team, Henrik was an investor with J12 Ventures, focusing on European pre-seed and seed stage companies within Data & AI. His previous experience also includes growth investing with NGP Capital, leading investor operations at Slush and advising established corporations with Carnegie Investment Bank.

Aside from work, Henrik can be found lifting incrementally heavier circles in the gym or slowly ascending and quickly descending mountain slopes.

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Barbara
Stamm Investment Committee

Barbara is Head of Strategic Projects and M&A of Swiss Mobiliar Insurance Company. With over 20 years of experience in M&A, she has a profound knowledge of transactions leading to transformation. She holds an MSc in international affairs from the University of St. Gallen and an AMP from Harvard.

To balance work, in life she loves doing in- and outdoor sports.

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Heiki Riesenkampf Venture Partner

Heiki is a Venture Partner at Lightbird, where next to working on his own venture, he will continue to support Lightbird's founders in areas such as product, design and engineering. Originally from Estonia, Heiki graduated in Computer Science from ETH in Zurich and has already founded three companies: Mirage (Deeptech), Acapela (Future of Work, backed by notable Angels and Visionaries Club) and Commonbase (LLM infrastructure).

Even outside of work Heiki enjoys high-paced activities - HIIT workouts, wakeboarding, cycling around Berlin and sipping Mimosas with friends on Sundays.

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