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Lightspeed
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Menlo Park, California 139,068 followers
Possibility grows the deeper you go. Serving bold builders of the future.
About us
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in the Enterprise, Consumer, Health, and Fintech sectors. Over the past two decades, the Lightspeed team has backed hundreds of entrepreneurs and helped build more than 500 companies globally including Affirm, Carta, Cato Networks, Epic Games, Faire, Forty Seven, Guardant Health, Mulesoft, Navan, Netskope, Nutanix, Rubrik, Sharechat, Snap, Udaan, Ultima Genomics and more. Lightspeed and its global team currently manage $28B in AUM across the Lightspeed platform, with investment professionals and advisors in the U.S., Europe, India, Israel, and Southeast Asia. www.lsvp.com
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https://lsvp.com/
External link for Lightspeed
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Menlo Park, California
- Type
- Partnership
- Founded
- 2000
- Specialties
- Consumer internet, Enterprise, Virtual Infrastructure, Venture Capital, Cloud Computing, e-commerce, gaming, mobile, Infrastructure, Big Data, Fintech, Healthcare, and Crypto
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2200 Sand Hill Road
Suite 100
Menlo Park, California 94025, US
Employees at Lightspeed
Updates
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Financing Spotlight Alert 🚨 Congratulations to these Lightspeed-backed companies on their recent funding announcements: → Skild AI, redefining the robotics landscape with a foundational AI model enabling autonomous machines to perform an unlimited range of tasks across industries. cc: Co-Founders Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta → Volley, leading developer of voice-powered AI games. cc: Co-Founders, James Wilsterman and Max Child → k-ID, setting a new industry standard for digital youth safety while solving the complex global issues of privacy and online safety. cc: Co-Founders Kieran Donovan, Timothy M., Julian Corbett and Jeff Wu → Helsing, building AI-based defense capabilities. cc: Co-Founders Torsten Reil, Niklas Köhler, and Dr. Gundbert Scherf
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Lightspeed Partner, Bejul Somaia, joined Bloomberg’s Tom Mackenzie to unpack AI’s role in today's market, and the global tech market, specifically why India’s tech startups remain prime investment targets despite economic speed bumps. Watch the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/gMWE4pQR
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Every year, Silicon Valley Defense Group releases the NATSEC100 List, highlighting leading venture-funded, national security-focused, and dual-use startups, providing a snapshot of the emergent techno-security ecosystem. Congratulations to Lightspeed-backed companies – Anduril Industries, CloudBees, Eightfold, Grafana Labs, Kodiak, Netskope, Saronic Technologies, Snorkel AI, and ThoughtSpot – on making the 2024 List. We are also honored to be recognized as one of the 2024 Top Venture Investors. Read more here: https://natsec100.org/ #NATSEC100
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At Lightspeed, we have been investing in frontier markets and technologies for over a decade. We have supported nearly 50 companies, including Anduril, Dexterity, Nest, Quantumscape, RobCo, Saronic, Skild, and Ultima Genomics, with $915 million invested across the sector, partnering with companies and founders who are building technology and products that modernize and transform industries. Today we continue our commitment to the frontier tech space with our investment in Helsing’s €450M Series C round. Helsing is building AI-based defense capabilities that will be critical in ensuring safer democracies in Europe and globally. Congratulations to Co-Founders Torsten Reil, Niklas Köhler, and Dr. Gundbert Scherf. Learn more about our partnership on the blog: https://lnkd.in/dk6uhFsa
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In the past, digital experiences lacked or removed emotional connections. However, with the advancement of new technology, specifically the personalization of AI, this is changing. Technology is advancing in emotional intelligence, which is opening new opportunities for companies to build products that have multi-sensory communication abilities. Recently, Lightspeed Partner Moritz Baier-Lentz 🎮 was on a panel discussing the Intersection of Emotions, AI, and Spatial Computing at AWE with Nanea Reeves, Co-Founder and CEO at TRIPP, Inc., Anand Dass, Director at Meta Reality Labs, and Sly Spencer-Lee, Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Emerge. Watch the full session here: https://bit.ly/4eUxqLa If you’re building a product for a sensing technology, such as Meta Quest, you can apply to the Meta Quest Lifestyle App Accelerator Program. We are partnering with Meta to provide grant funding and mentorship to developers in the Mixed Reality space. Read more about the program and apply here: https://lnkd.in/eRWfKuhZ
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Less than a year ago, Lightspeed co-led Skild AI’s seed round, and now we’re doubling down and co-leading their Series A. Skild AI is redefining the robotics landscape with a foundational AI model enabling autonomous machines to perform an unlimited range of tasks across industries, including construction, healthcare, and more. Their vision is to provide an adaptable operating system for robots in any environment, ensuring safe human interaction. Congratulations to Co-Founders Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta, and the entire Skild AI team on their $300M Series A round. Learn more about Skild AI and why we’ve been proud investors since Day 1: https://lnkd.in/g5D45CvN Cc: Raviraj Jain Ravi Mhatre Taggart Bonham
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V Pappas, former COO at TikTok, has joined Lightspeed’s Advisory Council and will be a judge for the upcoming Game Changers 2025 list. A global technology executive, V has shaped the culture-defining content and communities of the world’s largest digital platforms. For more than 20 years, they have ushered brands into new stages of global growth, recognition, and revenue through content and audience development strategies that enable the success of creators and their communities. We are excited to welcome V to our council and have them as a judge among some of the top executives and leaders in gaming. https://lnkd.in/eFNASPhf Quote source: Glamour
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Congratulations to the Cato Networks team!
Cato named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Single-Vendor SASE.👏 Thank you to our partners, customers and Catonians for helping us secure this win. Learn more here 👉 https://okt.to/A8haSp #WeAreSASE #leader
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AI has been advancing since the mid-20th century, with neural networks achieving breakthroughs in image recognition and natural language processing since the 1980s. As a leader in this field since the 2000s, PyTorch Co-Creator Soumith Chintala, joined Lightspeed Partner Michael Mignano on the latest episode of the Generative Now Podcast, recorded during #GenNYC earlier this month. Now serving as Vice President and Fellow at Meta, Soumith shared his insights on the future of AI development tools. Soumith highlights how as AI advances, neural networks will become fundamental parts of the intricate, multi-faceted systems being currently developed. Watch the full episode to learn more. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3W0YgtC Apple: https://apple.co/4ch5LCh YouTube: https://bit.ly/3VL8KvM