Alexis Horowitz-Burdick built an early beauty e-commerce company in Southeast Asia called Luxola, growing it to a dozen Asia-Pacific markets before it was bought by LVMH, and she stayed on afterward to help move the business onto Sephora's platform and lead its digital expansion across nine markets—giving her rare experience on both sides of an acquisition. Before that, she had already started and sold an earlier company called The SweetSpot after it struggled, and later led global investing at LEGO Ventures focused on learning through play, rounding out a path that runs from hands-on startup building (including personally delivering orders by taxi) to thematic, mission-driven investing.