Nora Liben

Nora Liben is a Scout at Lightspeed Venture Partners and the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of OpenBeauty, operating out of the United States. In her venture capital capacity at the firm, she is directly responsible for sourcing early-stage investment opportunities, primarily targeting companies raising their initial pre-seed and seed funding rounds. Through this scouting program, she typically facilitates initial investment check sizes ranging from $25,000 to $100,000 to support emerging technology startups during their foundational growth phases. Alongside her investment activities, she leads operations and strategic development as the chief executive at OpenBeauty, drawing on her academic background from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Her current investment focus and professional expertise center on identifying scalable business models across small and medium-sized business software, manufacturing technology, health information systems, digital marketplaces, and enterprise applications.