Moritz is a senior partner and the head of gaming & interactive media at Lightspeed, a globally leading VC firm with 13 offices, $43 billion in assets, and over 200 exits across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. In 2023 and 2024, founders selected Lightspeed as the #1 lead investor in the gaming industry.

Moritz hosts the annual CEO Forum at GDC, the world's leading gathering of gaming CEOs, and is an investor, board member, and advisor to founders who led the creation of multi-billion dollar platforms and technologies. He made early institutional investments in OpenAI, SpaceX, and Palantir—resulting in top-percentile IRR and DPI track records to date.

An advocate for world models, Moritz is also a founding member of General Intuition, a research lab that trains spatiotemporal agents on proprietary video game data. The startup raised over $130 million from Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst, the largest Seed funding in gaming history.

Prior, Moritz was a partner and management team member at VC firm BITKRAFT, where he helped scale assets to $850 million. Before that, Moritz was a top-ranked vice president at Goldman Sachs, where he founded and led the firm’s global gaming practice. During his tenure, he advised clients on over $300 billion in M&A, IPOs, and other transactions. Preceding his finance career, he worked in strategy roles at IBM, McKinsey & Co., and The White House.

A lifelong gamer, Moritz spent his teenage years competing in Blizzard’s Diablo II, culminating in a #1 ranking among over 12 million players. The first in his family to graduate high school, he sold the virtual items earned in-game to afford his college tuition—two decades before digital asset trading entered the mainstream.

Moritz holds an M.B.A. and M.A. from Stanford, where he graduated as Arjay Miller Scholar and ERP Scholar (“German Rhodes”), and previously studied machine learning, philosophy, and psychology at Harvard University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, and Berlin School of Economics. He was recognized among the “30 Under 30” (Forbes), “40 Under 40” (Capital), and “Young Global Leaders” (World Economic Forum).

In his personal time, Moritz is an avid Ironman and ultramarathon athlete, including the 257 km Marathon des Sables and the World Marathon Challenge (7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 consecutive days), and a loving girl dad.