Lisa Baird

Design strategy everything.

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated August 2026💼 2 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
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Syndicate Seed Investor
Nov 2020
ARTERNAL provides Revenue & Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Inventory Management, & Automated Administrative Tasks for art dealers, art gallery owners, advisories and their staff within one consolidated platform. We understand that increasing revenue and strengthening relationships are of the utmost importance, so we created a system with the art dealers experience & needs in mind.
Angel Investor
Feb 2012
InterVene is a medical device start-up company reinventing the way physicians treat severe venous disease in the legs. InterVene's BlueLeaf(TM) Endovenous Valve Formation System represents the first ever non-implantable, endovenous approach to deep vein valve failure. This technology allows physicians to create new vein valves for patients who are unable to efficiently pump blood out of their legs and back to their heart. Millions of Americans currently suffer from painful venous stasis ulcers (VSU’s) and other costly and devastating symptoms, yet no minimally invasive therapy exists to treat deep vein valve failure, one of the most prevalent underlying causes of these symptoms. InterVene plans to change that. InterVene was originally a product of the Stanford Biodesign Fellowship and is a former Company In Residence at the Fogarty Institute for Innovation. InterVene's offices are now located in South San Francisco near SFO airport.
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2022
Présidente & Principal Strategist
Jul 2022
Fraîche Design Thinking is a creative consultancy. We specialize in corporate strategy, product innovation, brand expression, and architectural design. Humanity needs nothing short of scientific, social, and environmental revolution. Fraîche exists to make contributing to these mass transitions more doable for more people. Rooted in deep design research, we help ambitious ideas move from invention to convention by making the right thing not just obvious but inevitable. Our areas of work include: —economic justice; —earth justice; —social creativity; —and all the places where the deepest technological ambitions intersect with the deepest human desire.
early stageDesign Services
2020
Syndicate Seed Investor
Nov 2020
ARTERNAL provides Revenue & Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Inventory Management, & Automated Administrative Tasks for art dealers, art gallery owners, advisories and their staff within one consolidated platform. We understand that increasing revenue and strengthening relationships are of the utmost importance, so we created a system with the art dealers experience & needs in mind.
2019
IDEO
Freelance Business/Venture Designer
May 2019
2017
Freelance Venture/Business Designer & Strategist
Oct 2017
IDEO (pronounced “EYE-dee-oh”) is a global design consultancy helping the world’s most audacious dreamers create braver tomorrows. We activate our science of design with the alchemy of our wide-eyed and wonderful creative people to make futures you can click, feel, taste, test, and believe in. Our early days were filled with designing groundbreaking physical products, but 40 years in, you’ll find that we’ve been busy working on the future of almost everything, from sustainable supply chains with H&M to design-oriented organizations with Ford, entire civic infrastructures with Intercorp—and so much more.
2016
Freelance Strategist & Designer
Nov 2016
Tomorrow Partners helps organizations create the future of their brands and innovations. A diverse team of designers, strategists, technologists, and storytellers, we use our cross-disciplinary creative firepower to imagine and realize new opportunities for impact in business, non-profit and government. Whether rethinking existing experiences or bringing new ideas to life, Tomorrow’s outlook is bright.
late stageDesign Services
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