Moritz Baier Lentz 🎮
About Moritz Baier Lentz 🎮
Moritz Baier-Lentz is a Partner and the Head of Gaming at Lightspeed, a globally leading venture capital firm with 13 offices, more than $29 billion in assets under management, and over 200 exits across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He loves to partner with exceptional entrepreneurs and has served as an investor, board member, and advisor to founders who led the creation of games like Fortnite, Call of Duty, League of Legends, Wild Rift, Apex Legends, Overwatch, Sky, Valorant, StarCraft II, and Warcraft III. Previously, Moritz was a partner and management team member at BITKRAFT. He raised over $200 million and, with the founders, scaled the firm to manage $850 million in AUM and become the most active gaming VC of 2020, 2021, and 2022. Moritz led many of the fund's marquee early-stage deals, including Inworld AI, Theorycraft Games, Raid Base, and Horizon—achieving top-decile IRR and attracting 9-figure follow-on investments from Amazon, Disney, Epic Games, Google, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, NetEase, Niantic, Nintendo, Riot Games, Sony, Take-Two, Tencent, Ubisoft, and others. Prior, Moritz was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, where he founded and led the firm's global gaming practice. During his tenure, he advised the world's largest gaming and technology corporations on over $300 billion in transaction volume across M&A, IPOs, VC, and strategic financings—including Dell’s $67 billion acquisition of EMC and IBM’s $34 billion Red Hat purchase. A lifelong gamer, Moritz spent his teenage years competitively playing Blizzard’s Diablo II, culminating in a global #1 ranking among over 12 million players in 2003. The first person in his family to graduate high school, he traded the digital swords and armor that he earned in-game to afford his college tuition—two decades before NFTs entered the mainstream. Moritz holds an M.B.A. and M.A. from Stanford, graduating as an Arjay Miller Scholar and ERP Scholar ("German Rhodes"). He was recognized among the "30 Under 30" (Forbes), "40 Under 40" (Capital), "Young Leaders" (Atlantik-Brücke), and "Young Global Leaders" (World Economic Forum). His recent speaking engagements include Harvard, Stanford, M.I.T., Goldman Sachs, Forbes, New York Times, Axios, SXSW, GDC, and Davos. In his personal time, Moritz is an avid Ironman and ultramarathon athlete, including the Marathon des Sables (self-sufficient 250 km through the Sahara) and the World Marathon Challenge (7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days). With his races, he has raised over $250,000 for depression research.