Alexander Lazarev, Mba, Ph.D.

M&A | Corporate Development | Strategic Partnerships & BD | AI, Deep Tech, Infrastructure | Ex-VC GP | LBS MBA

📍 Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2017
VC🌍 United States
13
Total investments
6
Early stage
5
Mid stage
2
Late stage
12y
Years active

Portfolio

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Investor / Board Member
Dec 2017
Homewings is on a mission to deliver beautiful living to everyone, anywhere. Whether our clients have 10 or 1000 units in their portfolio, we can design, source and furnish projects within their timeframe, budget and quality parameters - extending their brand identity and pushing boundaries with creativity. Born out of the frustration that furnishing a property should not be expensive, cumbersome or lacking in style, we developed an online platform to empower our clients in their decision making by combining a robust supplier network and logistics infrastructure with our tech-focused approach to collaboration and project management.
Board Member
Dec 2017
Homewings is on a mission to deliver beautiful living to everyone, anywhere. Whether our clients have 10 or 1000 units in their portfolio, we can design, source and furnish projects within their timeframe, budget and quality parameters - extending their brand identity and pushing boundaries with creativity. Born out of the frustration that furnishing a property should not be expensive, cumbersome or lacking in style, we developed an online platform to empower our clients in their decision making by combining a robust supplier network and logistics infrastructure with our tech-focused approach to collaboration and project management.
Investor / Board Member
Dec 2017
Hosting. Its what we do. Professionally managed flexible lettings. You open your doors, we open up opportunity.
early stageReal Estate
Board Member
Dec 2017
Hosting. Its what we do. Professionally managed flexible lettings. You open your doors, we open up opportunity.
early stageReal Estate
Investor / Board Member
May 2017
At SimplyCook we want to bring joy to millions of meal times globally through flavour. Our vision is to help create a world where everyone can regularly experience the joy of cooking meals they can be proud of. Launched in 2014, we believe that it should be simple to cook high quality, healthy and delicious new meals from scratch. With close to a million recipe kits sold every month, we want to bring happiness and authentic flavours to our customers. Over the years, our team has grown a lot. Were proud of what were building together and we want to achieve 3 things for our community: - Flavour. We want your meal times to taste amazing. - Money saving. Our short shopping lists mean our customers do not have to spend on 20 ingredients to cook a chef designed recipe. Our meals work out between £2 and £6 per person in total. - Control. Use our kits whenever you want. Recipes take 20 to 30 minutes and the fresh ingredients to add are easily accessible to buy and swappable. With an excellent rating of 4.5* and over 9,000 reviews on Trustpilot, SimplyCook is also part of the world’s largest food and beverage company, Nestlé. A company who is driven by a simple aim: unlocking the power of food to enhance quality of life for everyone, today and for generations to come. Join SimplyCook and cook new meals from scratch anytime. Fabulous flavour pots and 20 to 30 min recipes through your letterbox. Try for £1 P&P today!
Board Member
May 2017
At SimplyCook we want to bring joy to millions of meal times globally through flavour. Our vision is to help create a world where everyone can regularly experience the joy of cooking meals they can be proud of. Launched in 2014, we believe that it should be simple to cook high quality, healthy and delicious new meals from scratch. With close to a million recipe kits sold every month, we want to bring happiness and authentic flavours to our customers. Over the years, our team has grown a lot. Were proud of what were building together and we want to achieve 3 things for our community: - Flavour. We want your meal times to taste amazing. - Money saving. Our short shopping lists mean our customers do not have to spend on 20 ingredients to cook a chef designed recipe. Our meals work out between £2 and £6 per person in total. - Control. Use our kits whenever you want. Recipes take 20 to 30 minutes and the fresh ingredients to add are easily accessible to buy and swappable. With an excellent rating of 4.5* and over 9,000 reviews on Trustpilot, SimplyCook is also part of the world’s largest food and beverage company, Nestlé. A company who is driven by a simple aim: unlocking the power of food to enhance quality of life for everyone, today and for generations to come. Join SimplyCook and cook new meals from scratch anytime. Fabulous flavour pots and 20 to 30 min recipes through your letterbox. Try for £1 P&P today!
Investor / Board Member
May 2017
Hubble is a flexible workspace platform. We help businesses give their teams great places to work – whether thats a longer-term office, or on-demand access to a network of thousands of spaces to work and meet. Our solutions flex with your workspace needs, helping you reduce wasted office spend while keeping your employees happy and productive.
Board Member
May 2017
Hubble is a flexible workspace platform. We help businesses give their teams great places to work – whether thats a longer-term office, or on-demand access to a network of thousands of spaces to work and meet. Our solutions flex with your workspace needs, helping you reduce wasted office spend while keeping your employees happy and productive.
Investor / Board Member
Nov 2015
Mercauxs Omnichannel Store Platform empowers retailers to deliver exceptional shopping experiences both in-store and remotely. A single app for store associates offers assisted selling, clienteling, omni-POS, fulfilment, and remote selling. Self-service customer solutions include progressive web apps, digital fitting rooms and self-checkout. The MACH-certified modular platform allows for flexible transformation at the retailers pace - starting with clienteling and endless aisle, or replace legacy POS. Additional modules, such as digital fitting rooms and remote selling, can be easily added. Easy to integrate, easy to support, easy to add new modules.
Board Member
Nov 2015
Mercauxs Omnichannel Store Platform empowers retailers to deliver exceptional shopping experiences both in-store and remotely. A single app for store associates offers assisted selling, clienteling, omni-POS, fulfilment, and remote selling. Self-service customer solutions include progressive web apps, digital fitting rooms and self-checkout. The MACH-certified modular platform allows for flexible transformation at the retailers pace - starting with clienteling and endless aisle, or replace legacy POS. Additional modules, such as digital fitting rooms and remote selling, can be easily added. Easy to integrate, easy to support, easy to add new modules.
Investor / Board Member
Nov 2014
We provide healthcare organisations with personal health records software to enable their patients to better manage their health. Our software implements best practices of online communication based on research conducted with 2,700 hospitals around the world. The software helps patients take control of their health, physicians increase the efficiency of communication and hospitals to increase revenues.
Board Member
Nov 2014
We provide healthcare organisations with personal health records software to enable their patients to better manage their health. Our software implements best practices of online communication based on research conducted with 2,700 hospitals around the world. The software helps patients take control of their health, physicians increase the efficiency of communication and hospitals to increase revenues.
Investor
Jan 2014
DrChrono by EverHealth develops the essential platform and services for modern medical practices to make care more informed, more interactive, and more personalized. The open platform powers telehealth, electronic health record (EHR), practice management, medical billing, and revenue cycle solutions for physicians and patients, and is fully extensible via a robust API and marketplace of applications and services. The platform is used by thousands of physicians and millions of patients, and is facilitating millions of patient appointments and is processing billions of dollars in medical billing. For more information about DrChrono by EverHealth, visit www.drchrono.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are always asking ourselves, how can we make physicians and patients life better through technology? - We don’t settle. - We are passionate. - We are entrepreneurs. - We strive to put a dent in the universe through healthcare. Join us and help us make a dent in the universe through healthcare - https://drchrono.com/careers
Experience · 21 entries
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Investments (13)
Founder (1)
Board (12)
2025
Managing Partner
Jun 2025
Stealth FinTech Startup
2021
Managing Director (Head of Venture Studio, Investor Relations, Investment Banking)
Oct 2021
We are supporting innovative projects, that can help build a resilient society. Our vision is to become a must-have partner, supporting and nurturing outstanding entrepreneurs with capital and management resources. The mission is to enable potential or would-be entrepreneurs to test their concepts or business plans without taking the full risk of leaving their jobs, raising money from family or friends, and foregoing their safety nets. Successful concepts are then transformed into separate entities and get funded by our partners and external investors. Maxfield Advisors is managed exclusively by entrepreneurs who have successfully developed their own companies, and who support the firm with an unmatched depth of knowledge and real-world expertise for building companies from the ground up.
Venture Partner (Investment Relations, Operations, Business Development)
Oct 2021
DAIVE.IO is a Customer Data Platform that is aimed to fix Facebook and Google retargeting, improve ads conversions and increase ROAS (Return On Advertising Spend) by collecting up to 60% more data about user behavior across all platforms (web, iOS, Android, etc) at sharing this data with marketing platforms on behalf of the businesses. 
Co-Founder
Sep 2021
A network for entrepreneurs building in stealth. Submit your information here so investors can find you: harmonic.ai/get-discovered
2020
Venture Partner (Venture Investments and Corporate Development)
Oct 2020
Pragmatech is a Venture Capital Firm & Startup Studio. Employing the pragmatic approach, we partner with exceptional founders to build fast-growing B2B SaaS and marketplace companies. What are our key areas of interest? - Enterprise Software - HR Technology - Marketplaces & Market Networks - Bio Technology - Property Technology
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2014–2017 · 13 investments
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