Lightspeed Management Co LLC

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in the Enterprise and Consumer sectors. Over the past two decades, the Lightspeed team has backed hundreds of entrepreneurs and helped build more than 350 companies globally, including Snap, Nest, Nutanix, AppDynamics, MuleSoft, OYO, Guardant, StitchFix, and GrubHub. Lightspeed currently manages $7.9B across the global Lightspeed platform, with investment professionals and advisors in Silicon Valley, Israel, India, and China.

Funds managed

Fund	Type	Vintage
Lightspeed SPV I-B	Venture	2019
Lightspeed Venture Partners Select III	Venture	2019
Lightspeed Venture Partners XII	Venture	2019
Lightspeed India Partners II	Venture	2018
Lightspeed Venture Partners Select II LP	Venture	2016
Lightspeed Venture Partners XI LP	Venture	2016
Lightspeed India Partners I LLC	Venture	2015
Lightspeed Venture Partners Select	Venture	2014
Lightspeed Affiliates X LP	Venture	2014
Lightspeed Venture Partners X LP	Venture	2014
Lightspeed Venture Partners IX LP	Venture	2012
Lightspeed Venture Partners VIII	Venture	2008
Lightspeed Venture Partners VII	Venture	2006
Lightspeed Venture Partners VI	Venture	2000
Weiss Peck & Greer Venture Associates V LP

26 Nov 2024 Eon's Valuation Reaches $1.4 Billion in Under a Year, Becoming the Fastest Growing Company in Cloud Infrastructure

12 Nov 2024 ScaleOps Raises $58M to Accelerate Fully Automated Cloud Resource Management

26 Jun 2024 k-ID Closes USD 45 Million Series A from Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners to Set a New Global Benchmark for Age-appropriate Gaming Experiences

Team

Current employees

	Ajit Deora	Venture Partner
	Michael Mignano	Partner Responsibilities: Consumer investments
	Andrew Moley	Chief Financial Officer (from Dec 2008)
	Bipul Sinha	Venture Partner
	Brad Twohig	Partner
	John Vrionis	Venture Partner (from Dec 2018)

Investments

Investment preferences

Minimum investment (USD)

$ 2,000,000

Maximum initial investment (USD)

$ 25,000,000

Investment size comment

USD 8 million sweet spot.

Focus countries

France

Investment focus themes

blockchain

Stage focus

Series A

Selected investments

	Country	Date	Deal professionals	Notes
Eon Inc Cloud backup platform with instant access to backed-up data, automating backup tasks, and providing full visibility and control over cloud resources.	United States	26 Nov 2024		Series C Follow-on investment. Round participant. Active
ScaleOps Labs Ltd Automated real-time Kubernetes resource optimisation platform.	Israel	13 Nov 2024 19 Dec 2023		Series B Follow-on investment. Led the investment round. Active
Pacific Fusion Nuclear fusion company.	United States	28 Oct 2024		Series A Initial investment. Round participant. Active
Zepto Grocery delivery company.	India	29 Aug 2024		N/A Follow-on investment. Round participant. Active
Grafana Labs Provider of an open and composable observability stack.	United States	6 Apr 2022 21 Aug 2024		Series D Follow-on investment. Led the investment round. Active
Chaos Labs Inc On-chain risk management platform.		15 Aug 2024		Series A Follow-on investment. Round participant. Active
Kidentify Pte Ltd Kids safety and compliance technology platform for games.	Singapore	25 Jun 2024		Series A Initial investment. Led the investment round. Active
WeatherXM AG Hyperlocal weather data provider.	Switzerland	23 May 2024		Series A Initial investment. Led the investment round. Investment through Lightspeed Faction., Active
Patronus AI Inc Platform for testing and scoring large language models for potential failures like hallucinations and unsafe outputs.	United States	23 May 2024		Series A Initial investment. Round participant. Active
Andalusia Labs Ltd Digital asset risk infrastructure startup.	United Arab Emirates	14 Dec 2023		Series A Initial investment. Led the investment round. Active
Pika Labs Inc Developer of artificial intelligence tools to generate and edit videos.	United States	28 Nov 2023		N/A Initial investment. Led the investment round. Active
Pixxel Space Technologies Inc Developer of a hyperspectral satellite constellation.	United States	1 Jun 2023		Series B Follow-on investment. Round participant. Active
Endor Labs Inc Software supply chain security company.	United States	2023		Series A Initial investment. Round participant. Active
Circle Labs Platform that enables anyone to become a creator of unique, virtual characters powered by artificial intelligence.		7 Nov 2022	Michael Mignano	Seed Initial investment. Led the investment round. Active
Magic Eden Solana NFT marketplace.	United States	21 Jun 2022		Series B Initial investment. Round participant. Active
LANDED Provider of a recruitment engine for the restaurant and hospitality industries.	United States	7 Apr 2022		Seed Initial investment. Round participant. Active
Tripledot Studios Ltd Mobile game studio.	United Kingdom	14 Feb 2022		Series B Follow-on investment. Round participant. Active
Everyrealm Inc Investment and innovation company across the global metaverse & NFT ecosystem.	United States	10 Feb 2022		Series A Initial investment. Round participant. Active

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