Lars Dalgaard, MS ’99
Lars Dalgaard, MS ’99
Lars Dalgaard is the founder and managing partner of the venture capital firm Luv Ventures, which invests in early stage enterprise software and computational biology companies. Lars is also a board partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he was previously a general partner for five years. Previously, Lars was founder and chief executive officer of SuccessFactors. After founding SuccessFactors during the dot-com bubble in 2001, he took it public on NASDAQ in November 2007, and SAP subsequently acquired the company for $3.6 billion in December 2011. Following the acquisition, Lars joined SAP’s board of directors and led the company’s cloud business. Lars helped author the firm’s M&A strategy, which has since resulted in more than 20 acquisitions by SAP valued at over $30 billion.
Prior to founding SuccessFactors, Lars was at Unilever and Novartis. Lars holds a BA from Copenhagen Business School and an MS from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Lars received the 2008 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and was recognized as Best CEO of a Large Company by the 2010 San Francisco Times Innovation and Technology Awards.
Lars serves on the board of the following companies: AltSchool, DenmarkBridge, Doxel.ai, Gigster, Imgur, Optimizely, Reflektive, SkySafe, Teespring, Tenfold, With.in, and Zenefits.