Laura S. Stoffel

Laura is a partner in Gunderson Dettmer’s Boston office. She represents entrepreneurs as they form and structure new businesses, counsels companies through equity and debt financing rounds, and executes complex M&A transactions.

Laura specializes in representing emerging growth companies, frequently starting from formation and continuing through their achievement of scale and an M&A event. Laura is highly experienced with governance and venture financing matters, advising early and late-stage start-ups on everything from day-to-day matters to material strategic events.

Laura’s clients span many industries, including fintech, healthtech, medtech, life sciences, edtech, agtech/foodtech, chips and other hardware, defensetech, products, retail, ecommerce, professional services tech, travel, transportation and logistics, business/productivity software, database software, SaaS and other software development, cleantech, energy, materials, and resources, media and entertainment, and more.

Laura’s representative deals include:

• Represented Lightmatter in its $155M Series C-2 financing and new $1.2B valuation
• Represented Evident Vascular in its $35M Series A financing led by Vensana Capital
• Represented Bevi in its $70M Series D financing by Cowen Sustainable Investments
• Represented OpenSpace in its $102M Series D financing
• Represented FeatureByte in its $5.7M Seed Round led by Glasswing Ventures
• Represented SumRidge Partners in its acquisition by Raymond James Financial
• Represented Little Leaf Farms in its Equity Financing led by TPG
• Represented Pendo in its $150M Series F financing
• Represented AllHere in its $8 Million Series A financing
• Represented PatientPing in its $60M Series C financing
• Represented PatientPing’s acquisition by Appriss Health
• Represented Flywire in its $120M Series E financing led by Goldman Sachs
• Represented Flywire on its initial public offering
• Represented CairnSurgical in its Series A financing led by Morningside Group

Laura also represents venture capital, growth and private equity investors on investment transactions and portfolio company matters.

Laura has guest-lectured and/or hosted workshops at Boston College Law School, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and others.