Dinner Series: The Making of an Investor - Building A Career Across Finance and Venture with Jeffrey Lonsdale, Fmr. Managing Director, Founders Fund
About Event
Series Seed is hosting an intimate dinner with Jeffrey Lonsdale, an investor and trader whose career spans the entire capital stack — from the trading desk to the cap table.
Jeff started at Palantir Technologies on Palantir Finance, then spent four years as VP of Research and Trading at Clarium Capital Management, Peter Thiel's global macro hedge fund. He went on to run a portfolio at Cabezon Investment Group before joining Founders Fund as Managing Director, Asia, and later advising Bridgetown SPAC on taking late-stage Southeast Asian companies public. Across quant trading, hedge funds, venture capital, and public markets, he has seen how capital is really made, moved, and allocated.
This dinner is for a small group of young founders and early-career professionals who want to understand how the investing world actually works — and how to think like the person on the other side of the table. Over dinner, Jeff will share how he built a non-linear career across finance and venture, what separates a trader's mindset from an investor's, how professional investors evaluate ideas and people, and practical advice for anyone trying to break into investing or raise venture capital.
Seats are limited. Reserve your spot early.
Speaker
Jeffrey Lonsdale
Co-Founder at Starstorm Ventures
Jeffrey "Jeff" Lonsdale is a Co-Founder of Starstorm Ventures, where he focuses on early-stage investments across Southeast Asia. He has been active in Silicon Valley since 2006, investing in and advising foundational technology companies including Palantir.
Before Starstorm, he led the Asia strategy team at Founders Fund as Managing Director, Asia, helping steer the firm's expansion in the region. Earlier in his career he was a Portfolio Manager at Cabezon Investment Group, VP of Research and Trading at Clarium Capital Management (Peter Thiel's global macro hedge fund), and a consultant on Palantir Finance at Palantir Technologies. He also advised Bridgetown on due diligence for late-stage Southeast Asian companies preparing to go public.
His long-term perspective on innovation, cross-border scaling, and founder-centric support enables him to identify and back early-stage ventures positioned for durable impact in both Asia and the global tech ecosystem. He holds a B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego.
