Founder Festival: Eric Lefkofsky's Profile

Welcome, Eric Lefkofsky

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Founder300

97th percentile

Investor160

98th percentile

Combined

#15 on Leaderboard

Serial founder who IPO'd Groupon and Tempus AI, now CEO of Tempus

• Professional:Serial Founder Unicorn Founder IPO Acquired 5+ Exits 1,000+ Employees Angel Investor On Wikipedia Top 100k Web

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Traction · 98th percentile

Groupon IPO'd in 2011 at a market cap of approximately $12.7B.
Tempus AI IPO'd in 2024 with a market cap of approximately $7.1B.
Sprout Social IPO'd in December 2019 at a market cap of approximately $1.35B, confirmed by SEC filings.
InnerWorkings IPO'd at a market cap of approximately $300M.
Echo Global Logistics IPO'd at a market cap of approximately $200M.
Starbelly.com was acquired (acquisition price undisclosed).

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Founder score

99%Current founder and CEO of Tempus AI.
99%Past founder of Groupon, Echo Global Logistics, InnerWorkings, Mediaocean, and other companies.
99%Wikipedia entity exists for Eric Lefkofsky, confirming notable public profile.
95%tempus.com ranks #69,939 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
95%Multiple companies co-founded with partners, including Groupon and Lightbank.
90%Tempus AI IPO'd in 2024 with a market cap of approximately $7.1B.
88%Groupon IPO'd in 2011 at a market cap of approximately $12.7B.
85%Sprout Social IPO'd in December 2019 at a market cap of approximately $1.35B, confirmed by SEC filings.
75%Starbelly.com was acquired (acquisition price undisclosed).
70%InnerWorkings IPO'd at a market cap of approximately $300M.
70%Echo Global Logistics IPO'd at a market cap of approximately $200M.

Investor score

95%Partner and co-founder at Lightbank, a recognized Chicago-based venture capital firm.
95%Active GP and co-managing partner at Lightbank, running the fund's investment operations.
92%Approximately 15 years of investing experience, with Lightbank founded in 2010.
90%Lightbank has invested in more than 70 companies, reflecting an extensive active investment portfolio.
90%Portfolio company Sprout Social went public, confirmed by SEC filings.
88%Publicly identified as an angel investor and entrepreneur with investments across multiple companies.

What you likely need

You'd get the most out of Festival events that put you in the room with healthcare-focused public-market investors and top pharma BD leaders who can sharpen Tempus AI's narrative and unlock enterprise data deals at scale. Smaller founder-CEO dinners with post-IPO peers from Veeva and Doximity would give you rare, candid playbooks on delegation and international sequencing that you can't get from advisors. On the Lightbank side, curated LP gatherings with allocators who backed a16z Bio and GV would help you pressure-test the case for a larger dedicated fund.

Would you attend these IRL Festival events?

We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.

positioningA closed-door dinner with 6-8 healthcare-focused public-market investors from Casdin Capital, RA Capital, and Foresite Capital to sharpen Tempus AI's precision medicine narrative and separate it from the broader AI hype cycle ahead of analyst days
introsA private roundtable with Chief Data Officers and BD leads from Pfizer, Roche, and AstraZeneca to explore co-development and data licensing structures built on Tempus AI's clinical genomics library
fundraisingA Lightbank LP and prospective LP dinner with institutional allocators who backed a16z Bio and GV's latest funds to pressure-test the case for raising a dedicated Lightbank vehicle beyond the current ~$200M
hiringA recruiting dinner with top AI/ML research talent out of DeepMind Health, Google Brain's genomics team, and Stanford's AI in Medicine group to pipeline Tempus AI's next wave of clinical AI hires
tacticalA roundtable with founder-CEOs who've scaled past $5B market cap post-IPO — peers from Veeva, Doximity, and Definitive Healthcare — to trade playbooks on international expansion sequencing and public-company operational focus
introsA private dinner with Lightbank portfolio founders approaching IPO readiness alongside two or three bankers from Goldman and Morgan Stanley who ran the Tempus and Sprout Social offerings to map the path to public-market debut
wellbeingA small offsite dinner with 4-5 serial founders managing multiple simultaneous roles — think Michael Rubin and David Friedberg — to share honest frameworks for delegating operational control while staying high-leverage on the company that matters most