Lauren Bonner

Lauren Bonner has 15+ years of experience leading turnarounds, scaling companies, and building technologies and almost a decade investing in early-stage companies and small businesses. In 2021, she launched a buyout fund focused on "venture orphans", tech start-ups which fall off the unicorn trajectory and need turnarounds.

Previously, he was an executive officer at Point72, a $19b hedge fund, where she built a proprietary analytics platform to boost returns. Ms Bonner was an operating partner at 1/0 Capital, a fintech venture fund that launched Better Mortgage (now valued at $4b), where she worked closely from its infancy. She also managed teams at Bridgewater Associates. She is an angel investor, primarily with female founders. She also became a leader in the #MeToo movement on Wall Street in early 2018 when she filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against hedge fund billionaire and Mets owner Steve Cohen.

She has been interviewed by Christiane Amanpour on CNN, Sheelah Kolhatkar in the New Yorker, Leslie Picker for CNBC and featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Forbes.

Sub-specialties:
Venture & private equity investing, particularly in fintech
Diversity / #MeToo on Wall Street
Investing in female founders