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Addie Lerner Katz

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Smart Money Rating: 94 out of 100

Founder & Managing Partner, Avid Ventures

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Avid Ventures
Title
Founder & Managing Partner
Role
Managing partner
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Record updated 17 September 2026

About

Addie is the Founder & Managing Partner of Avid Ventures. As a career institutional investor, Addie spent the prior decade at General Catalyst, General Atlantic, and Goldman Sachs’s Special Situations Group. At these firms, she helped to deploy over $450M across eighteen investments in fintech, consumer, and software companies spanning the U.S., Europe, and Israel. While at GC, Addie realized she could uniquely support her companies, including Rapyd, Monzo, Shift Technology, and Chief, by applying her growth-stage skill set and perspective to work alongside her founders and help evolve their startups into proven growth businesses.

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Education
Addie graduated with honors in 2011 from Princeton University where she earned an A.B. in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and a certificate in Near Eastern Studies.Source (opens in a new tab)

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