David Lawee

David Lawee is a Canadian-born businessman who has had major success in the tech and investment industries.

David Lawee
Lawee in 2008
Born
Canada
Alma materUniversity of Western Ontario
McGill University Faculty of Law
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business[1]
EmployerCapitalG
Spouse(s)Lorna Borenstein

Career

Lawee is a 13-year Google veteran who founded and leads CapitalG (formerly known as Google Capital),[2] Google's investment arm for late-stage startups. Lawee sits on the boards of Lyft, Credit Karma and Convoy.

Prior to leading CapitalG, Lawee ran Google's mergers and acquisitions (M&A) department, a position he held for five years.[3] During Lawee's time running M&A at Google, the company acquired approximately 100 companies.[4] Before that, Lawee was the Chief Marketing Officer at Google, leading consumer, B2B and channel marketing worldwide.

Before joining Google, Lawee was a founder of Xfire, a leading online gaming community, which was acquired by Viacom for $108M. He also previously co-founded three other start-ups including Mosaic Venture Partners, a leading Toronto-based venture capital firm. He began his career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.[4]

Lawee's experience as a serial entrepreneur, VC and leader of Google's M&A organization, gives him a unique lens on technology growth equity investing. He is extremely well respected in Silicon Valley.[5][6] It has been noted that Facebook has tried to acquire him.[2]

Lawee earned a philosophy degree at the University of Western Ontario, a law degree at the McGill University Faculty of Law and an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Personal life

Lawee is married to Lorna Borenstein,[7] who launched eBay Canada, was later head of Yahoo Personals, and was then president of Move Inc, the operator of Realtor.com[8] until she resigned in March 2009.

References
  1. "David Lawee". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
  2. Bergen, Mark (December 21, 2015). "Meet Google Capital, the Investing Arm with the Keys to the Googleplex Kingdom". Retrieved February 3, 2017.
  3. "Google Capital bullish on India, but will be choosy with its startup bets". September 27, 2016. Retrieved February 3, 2017.
  4. "Capital G Bio". Capital G. Retrieved February 3, 2017.
  6. D'Onfro, Jillian; Dickey, Megan Rose (March 7, 2014). "THE SILICON VALLEY 100: The Coolest People In Tech Right Now". Business Insider.
  7. Wise, Sean (March 29, 2007). "reportonbusiness.com: More Wise Words". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on April 17, 2008. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
  8. "Lorna Borenstein Named President of Move, Inc". 2 May 2007.


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