Alexander Taussig

San Francisco Bay Area, MA United States

Partner at Highland Capital

Venture Capital / Private Equity

Alex first discovered the joys of writing code in 7th grade, when he wrote his first computer program in LogoWriter. Since then, Alex has been obsessed with the cutting edge of technology, working in fields as diverse as solid state physics, bioinformatics, computer vision, & optical computing. He invests in early stage companies solving the most challenging technology bottlenecks in software today. Alex represents Highland on its investments in JauntVR, RethinkDB, and thredUP and have sourced or co-led other investments in companies like BetterLesson, Filepicker (acquired by Copper.io), Leap Motion, RentJuice (acquired by Zillow), and Talaria Technologies (acquired by Google). He also p...