Moritz Baier-Lentz is a gaming partner at Lightspeed.

Lightspeed picks up Moritz Baier-Lentz to lead game investments

Lightspeed, a venture firm with $18 billion under management, has hired Moritz Baier-Lentz as its latest partner to lead the firm’s gaming practice.

Baier-Lentz is joining the VC firm’s consumer team as a partner to lead Lightspeed’s gaming practice and expand the firm’s presence in Los Angeles, where he is currently based. He will lead investments in gaming, game studios, platforms, and technologies.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.