Mercedes Bent

Mercedes Bent is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Prior to joining Lightspeed, they served as a Non-Profit Board Member at Birthright AFRICA from January 2019 to December 2021. Before that, they were the Vice President at Upload from January 2016 to December 2017, where they helped grow the company's education business. From July 2012 to November 2016, Mercedes was the General Manager & Product Manager at General Assembly. Mercedes began their career as a Financial Analyst at Goldman Sachs from January 2010 to December 2012, and later worked as an Analyst at the Federal Reserve Board from January 2009 to December 2009.

Mercedes Bent's educational career includes completing a BA in Economics and East Asian Studies from Harvard University, as well as an MBA and MEd from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Education respectively.

Their manager is Ravi Mhatre, Founder & Managing Director. Some of their coworkers include Pete Steinle - Partner, Executive Talent, Raviraj Jain - Partner, and Anoushka Vaswani - Partner.