Two Lanterns Venture Partners

2LVC is sourcing and selecting high-impact startups from MassChallenge, Boston, New York, and Israel, and building syndicates with top-tier angels, families, corporates, and VCs in Pre-seed, Seed, and Series A opportunities.

Meet our team:

The Managing Director and founder of the fund is John Harthorne, former CEO and founder of MassChallenge, the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet. Through MassChallenge’s global network of accelerators in Boston, Israel, Switzerland, Mexico, Rhode Island, Austin and Houston, and unrivalled access to corporate partners, MassChallenge entrepreneurs are creating a massive impact - driving growth and creating value the world over. To date, 2,458 MassChallenge alumni have raised over $6 billion of funding, have generated over $3 billion of revenue, and have created over 157,000 jobs.

John left MassChallenge in 2019 to launch Two Lanterns Venture Partners, a seed fund focused on capital-efficient startups poised to create massive impact.

Michal Gilon-Yanai is the Executive Venture Partner at 2LVC. She founded and directed entrepreneurship programs in three academic institutions in the US and in Israel, most recently at the NYU school of medicine. She became the founding executive director of the MBA Innovation & Entrepreneurship track at IDC, Israel in 2010. Between 2014-2016, Michal managed two programs at MIT’s entrepreneurship center, and in her most recent role, she developed and headed the NYU Biomedical Entrepreneurship Program.

For more info, check us out at www.2L.vc!