Investor profile
Cory Lester
Fund of funds, Venture capital & Managing Director at Morgan Creek Capital Management
Cory Lester works as a Managing Director at Morgan Creek Capital Management. The firm's known portfolio counts 19 companies.
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Investment focus
- Focus
- AI InfrastructureChipsCryptoDigital HealthPaymentsPhotonic ComputeSemiconductorsWeb3
Contacts
Affiliated funds' portfolios
Managing Director at Morgan Creek Capital Management, whose known portfolio counts 19 companies
- Arch
- EnCharge AI
- Avalanche
- Hex Trust
- Neurophos
- Diraq
- Niobium Microsystems
- Upexi
- Armilla AI
- Ansel Health
- Chain Reaction
- Provenance Blockchain Labs
- and 7 more
Investor Profile
Cory Lester is listed against sectors AI, FinTech, Hardware and Healthcare, and focus areas AI Infrastructure, Chips, Crypto and Digital Health in the database.
Morgan Creek Capital Management appears in Growth, Late-Stage and Pre-Seed rounds across its known deals.
What the affiliated firm has backed is the closest available signal on whether Cory Lester is worth approaching.
Colleagues at Morgan Creek Capital Management
Mark Yusko
Founder
Chapel Hill, United States
Ryan Newson
Principal
Boston, United States
Oam Patel
Venture Partner, Digital Assets & FinTech Investments
New York, United States
Frank Tanner
Director
Chapel Hill, United States
Michael Fair
Venture Capital Investor
Chapel Hill, United States
Greg Holmes
Managing Director
Palm Beach, United States
Xavier Segura
General Partner
New York, United States
Dan Kingston
Managing Director
Seattle, United States
Sachin Jaitly
General Partner
New York, United States
Michael P. Hennessy
Managing Director and Co-Founder
Chapel Hill, United States
Andrew Schmeelk
Senior Advisor
New York, United States
Erica Vrana
Managing Director, Investor Relations
Raleigh, United States
Eileen Mancera
Managing Director
New York, United States
Nicholas Lee
Managing Director
Shanghai, China
Ryan Abronski
Venture Capital
Redmond, United States
Macon Patton
Director
Chapel Hill, United States
Frequently asked questions
Who is Cory Lester?
Cory Lester is a fund of funds investor and venture capital investor based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, listed as Managing Director at Morgan Creek Capital Management. The known portfolio of that firm counts 19 companies. That portfolio belongs to the firm, not to Cory Lester personally.
What does Cory Lester invest in?
Listed sectors include AI, FinTech, Hardware and Healthcare; listed focus areas include AI Infrastructure, Chips, Crypto and Digital Health. Those tags come from the portfolios of the firms this profile is attached to, so they read as a record of what has been backed rather than a stated preference for what comes next.
What stage does Cory Lester invest at?
Morgan Creek Capital Management appears in Growth, Late-Stage and Pre-Seed rounds across its known deals, and Cory Lester is listed there as Managing Director. Stage is the strongest single filter when you build a target list: an investor with no record at your stage rarely starts with you.
Which firm is Cory Lester listed at?
Cory Lester is listed as Managing Director at Morgan Creek Capital Management. 16 other people in the database share a firm with Cory Lester.
How do I contact Cory Lester?
An email address, a phone number and a LinkedIn page are on file for Cory Lester. The address stays masked on this page and is readable inside RaiseHunt after you create an account.
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