Margot Shapiro

Margot is a seasoned investment professional with 25+ years in private equity and venture capital. She grew up in the Midwest, dancing with the Detroit Contemporary Civic Ballet Company throughout high school. She earned both a BS and MS at Stanford University, where she studied Applied Earth Science and Geology. Analyzing oil company assets for a bank during a summer job, she fell in love with business and went on to earn her MBA at Harvard Business School.

Margot began her career in the Investment Banking division of Goldman Sachs in New York. From there, she joined a private equity partnership where she worked on venture capital and leveraged buyout deals for the firm's 30 portfolio companies totaling $6 billion in revenue. Eventually, she moved back to the Midwest and returned to Goldman Sachs, where she raised $70 million for private wealth teams. She helped launch the Wolverine Venture Fund at University of Michigan and actively served on its founding Board of Advisors for six years.

With a desire to start her own fund after a move to California, Margot co-founded LMN Ventures in 2010 with two business school classmates, Linda Greub and Corinne Nevinny. The team invested their own capital in early stage, women-led businesses in the Consumer and Health & Wellness sectors. Following her passion for the better-for-you CPG space, Margot joined Spiral Sun Ventures as a Manager Partner in 2018.

Margot serves on the Advisory Board of Women Entrepreneurs Global. She is married, lives in Laguna Beach, CA and has three grown children.