Team
Team
Team
Shannon Wu
Partner
Shannon is a general partner at Lumina Capital. She focuses on supporting advanced technologies with the potential for global scale. She is the founder of OpenHome, an AI hardware OS for edge computing. She founded Mr. Progress, a boutique growth strategy consultancy that actively partners with companies to optimize their fundraising strategies and go-to-market operations. Here Shannon worked on MakerDAO's launch of DAI - the first fully-decentralized stablecoin on Ethereum.
Prior to founding Mr. Progress, Shannon served on the investment team at FOUNDER.org, an early-stage focused family office venture fund. At Founder.org, Shannon supported 40+ early-stage founders with investments, executive mentors, industry partners, and a structured curriculum. Shannon graduated from Stanford University, during which she was selected to be on the Stanford Board of Trustees.
Jesse Leimgruber
Partner
Jesse Leimgruber is a Managing Director whose perspective is shaped by more than a decade of founding, scaling, and backing companies at the frontier of artificial intelligence, consumer technology, and data infrastructure. A Stanford Computer Science alumni, Thiel Fellow, and honoree, he brings an operator's eye to investing and running companies.
As an operator, Jesse has built in launched multiple businesses spanning over $100M in revenue, through to public markets. He previously founded NeoReach, a data-analytics company serving Fortune 500 brands including Amazon, Walmart, and the FIFA World Cup, and co-founded Bloom, a decentralized data-privacy company whose work reached Congress and powered a national identity system for the Government of Singapore.