Sebastian Duesterhoeft

Sebastian Duesterhoeft is currently a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners in Menlo Park, California, where he focuses on early-stage and growth technology investments within enterprise software. Prior to joining Lightspeed, he served as a General Partner at Coatue Management, directing growth-stage investments across the enterprise software, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure sectors. Before his tenure at Coatue Management, Duesterhoeft worked as an investment professional at Silver Lake Partners, a global private equity firm specializing in large-scale technology buyouts and strategic capital allocations. Throughout his career in venture capital and private equity, he has executed growth investments in multiple technology organizations, including public industry leaders such as Snowflake and Databricks. Duesterhoeft leverages his extensive background in technology finance and strategic operations to help founders build enterprise software companies from the initial concept phase through to global scale.