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Alex Lau

Alex Lau

VC finance & operations leader; partner at Averin

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Boston, Massachusetts
Joined October 2025

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Summary

Experienced VC firm finance and operations leader โ€” Alex built his career running FP&A and firm operations at OpenView, contributing to scaling the management company's assets and operational capabilities and later stepping into partner-level roles. He now serves as a partner at Averin and has publicly announced a partner/operations role at Bedford Bridge. averincapital+2
Practitioner of FP&A and financial modeling โ€” Alex has authored practical finance pieces on forecasting and finance transformation, demonstrating a hands-on approach to building lean forecast models, rolling forecasts, and FP&A best practices used by growing software companies and portfolio teams. openviewpartners+1
Progressive career from corporate FP&A and rotational analyst programs into firm-level leadership โ€” his background includes early analyst rotations (GE/Electric Insurance), corporate FP&A at Cimpress/Vistaprint, then a multi-year progression through FP&A and operations roles at OpenView before becoming a partner and moving into his current roles. equilar+2

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Travel, movies, sports, technology, entrepreneurship (personal interests listed on personal about.me page). about

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ALAlex Lau
was previously a Venture Partner at OpenView and made a strong, positive impact there.

Oct 28, 2025