Rebecca Lynn
Partner
Ranked #23 out of 100 top tech VCs in Forbes’s 2015 Midas List, Rebecca joined Morgenthaler’s Menlo Park office in 2007. She focuses on early-stage investments in mobile, financial services, digital health, SaaS and consumer. She led investments in Lending Club, Practice Fusion, Check (sold to Intuit for $360M in June 2014), Doximity, and Convo. She is a board observer on both Adara Media and Socrata. Rebecca was named a “Midas List Hot Prospect” by Forbes in 2013, and a “Top Women VC” by Forbes in 2013 and 2014.
Rebecca began her career at Procter and Gamble’s corporate headquarters where she worked in international new product market entry. She spent time in both Cincinnati and Mexico City developing new products for the market and launching a new category in Latin America. She then joined NextCard as an early employee and spent four years at the company. At NextCard, she led product development efforts and later served as the Vice President of Marketing where she managed one of the top five largest online marketing efforts. NextCard was the first online credit card company, and it went public in 2000 with a $1.3B market cap. After NextCard, she ran her own consulting business focusing on online marketing for financial services and affiliate marketing.
Rebecca passed the California State Bar and has a focus on intellectual property litigation and corporate law. Rebecca is an inventor on several issued patents, and she was published in the Berkeley Law and Technology Journal.
Education:
JD/MBA degree from the Haas School of Business and U.C. Berkeley School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Missouri in 1996.
Other Investments:
- Practice Fusion
Portfolio News
- How Lending Club Is Shaping the Future of Small-Business Loans
- Rebecca Lynn Ranked #23 on Forbes Midas List 2015 and #2 on Midas Newcomers List
- VC PROFILE: How Morgenthaler Became Canvas and a Female Partner Rose to the Top
- LendingClub was forged by the financial crisis
- Female VCs: What Do Entrepreneurs Think Of Them, Really?
- Lending Club Shares Soar 56 Percent In Market Debut
- Doximity, the Social Network for Physicians, Continues Impressive Growth
- Lending Club Files for IPO; Startup Emerged During Credit Crisis
- The Daily Startup: Payment-Tech VC Surges, M&A Should Follow
- Lending Club issues $1B in loans in a single quarter
- Startups And The Un-Banking Of America
- Intuit Adds Check To Its Finance Stable In $360M Deal
- Check investor Rebecca Lynn on finance tech, why the number of women VCs is lower than you think
- Morgenthaler/Canvas Hires Rip Empson from TechCrunch
- Doximity Raises $54 Million to Connect Every Doctor in the US
- Is The LinkedIn For Doctors A $1 Billion Business? Doximity’s Raised $54 Million To Find Out
- Lending Club valuation rises to $3.76bn
- Top Women in Venture Capital
- With 40% Of U.S. Doctors Signed On, Doximity’s Jeff Tangney Reveals How The Social Network For M.D.s Hit The Tipping Point
- Doximity’s social network for doctors now has more members than the American Medical Association
- Doximity CEO Jeff Tangney on being the talent platform
- Enterprise Social Network Convo Adds At-Rest Encryption To Its Servers To Better Protect Client Data
- Tech Customers More Attentive to Security in the Wake of NSA Leaks
- Because LinkedIn doesn’t cut it, Doximity builds a recruiting tool for doctors
- Check and Evernote named to PC Magazine’s top 100 Android Apps
- Morgenthaler Ventures Announce Winners of the DC to VC 2013: HIT Startup Showcase
- DC to VC’s batch of health startups: semen analysis, wearables & more
- Convo Backed by Morgenthaler for a New Take on Business Collaboration
- Playing the long game: why one company chose product over growth
- Now At 10M Users, Check Lands $24M From Menlo To Become Your Go-To Mobile Money Manager
- EBay-Style Peer Loans Spur Wall Street Asset Craze
- Not Banks, but Still Lending Money and Drawing Investors
- Morgenthaler Ventures and Health 2.0 Announce the 4th Annual “DC to VC” Startup Health IT Contest
- Digital Health Meets The Voice: Startup Contest Puts VCs On Stage
- Socrata Raises $18M For Platform To Open Government Data
- Lending Club and Check featured in Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends 2013 Report.
- Doximity Now Offers Online Education for Practicing Physicians (Exclusive)
- How Practice Fusion Plans to use Patient Data to Save Lives
- Rebecca Lynn Named to Forbes’ Top Women VC List
- Rebecca Lynn named to Forbes Midas Hot Prospects List
- Google Makes Investment in Lending Club
- Google Buys Stake In Lending Club, Valuing Peer-To-Peer Lender At $1.6 Billion
- Pageonce Aims to Become Top Consumer Finance Tool
- Lending Club Appoints Former Visa President as Director
- Lending Club Named to Forbes’ “America’s Most Promising Companies” List for Second Consecutive Year
- Pageonce Now Processes $1M In Mobile Bill Payments Each Day And Expects Payment Volume Run-Rate To Hit $1B By Mid-2013
- Evernote and Lending Club announced as Keynote Speakers, Rebecca Lynn to Judge at Vator Splash SF on Feb. 13
- Larry Summers Joins Lending Club Board
- Rebecca Lynn to Speak at FT Financing Innovation Conference, December 6, Stanford University
- Health 2.0 Challenge #1: Getting Doctors Off Fax Machines
- 3 Health Tech Startups to Watch From the DC to VC Showcase
- Meet The Three Most Fund-able Health Companies From The DC To VC Showcase
- Morgenthaler Names Finalists for Health IT Pitch Fest
- Health IT Startup, Doximity, Raises $17M Series B
- Lending Club Cracks $70 Million, Prosper Has a Down Month
- Practice Fusion Raises Total $64 Million
- Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Invests in Lending Club
- Morgenthaler Launches 3rd Annual DC to VC: Health IT Startup Contest
- Rebecca Lynn on Lending Club, Pageonce and Financial Services Sector
- Rebecca Lynn named a “Woman of Influence” by SJ Biz Journal
- Rebecca Lynn and Missy Krasner Give Health IT Startup Advice at Haas
- Lending Club and Rebecca Lynn: Assess Loans without FICO Scores
- Rebecca Lynn Recognized as One of the Top Health Leaders for Investing in Health IT Companies
- Pageonce Expands Service to Allow Bill Paying
- DC to VC: An Inside Look At The Winners of Morgenthaler’s Health Tech Startup Showcase
- How Pageonce Secured $15M in Venture Funding – Entrepreneur
- Company Pitch to Docs: Pocket $44,000
- Internet VCs Circle Health Care
- Inside Morgenthaler’s Upcoming Health IT Showcase
- In Silicon Valley, the Night Is Still Young
- Are Free Motorola Phones in Our Future?
- Lending Club Nabs $25 Million In New Funding
- Show Them the Money in Health IT
- Lending Club Wins Webby Award
- Aneesh Chopra, Building Bridges to Silicon Valley
- Rebecca Lynn to Speak at Health IT Innovation Boom Event at SD Forum
- Increasing Web Focus, Morgenthaler Promotes Rebecca Lynn to Partner