Larry Marcus is a Managing Director at Walden Venture Capital. See sector focus and contact routes.
Larry Marcus is a Managing Director at Walden Venture Capital, a San Francisco-based firm where he has invested alongside partners since 2002, following prior experience as an equity research analyst at Deutsche Bank covering digital media and consumer technology. His investment thesis targets “Sprout Stage” deals—early institutional rounds in digital media, cloud services, and consumer or enterprise eCommerce, with a product-centered screening approach focused on companies that have demonstrated a working demo. Walden typically leads or follows in first institutional rounds, though specific check sizes are not publicly detailed in available sources. Notable portfolio companies where Marcus serves as a board member include SoundHound, Our Place, Savage X Fenty, and Pandora Media, where he was a founding investor. Marcus emphasizes a product-first, demo-driven evaluation process and has described Sprout Stage investing as targeting technologies that have “sprouted” beyond the seed/angel phase. He holds a BA in Economics and Political Science and an MBA from UC Berkeley, and previously backed leading games and digital media firms as a sell-side a
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