Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm focused on partnering with entrepreneurs to build high-growth market-leading companies globally. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California and was founded in 2000 by Chris Schaepe, Barry Eggers, Ravi Mhatre, and Peter Nieh. Notable companies receiving investments from Lightspeed Venture Partners are: Snap, The Honest Company, GIPHY, Nest, GrubHub, StitchFix, Affirm, Nutanix, AppDynamics, and MuleSoft.
On July 10, 2018 Lightspeed Venture Partners announced closing their Lightspeed Venture Partners XII, L.P. fund with $750 million in funding. The Lightspeed Venture Partners XII, L.P. fund will be used to make seed, series A, and series B investments in early stage companies.
On July 10, 2018 Lightspeed Venture Partners announced closing their Lightspeed Venture Partners Select III, L.P. with $1.05 in funding. The Lightspeed Venture Partners Select III, L.P. fund will be used to make follow-on investments in companies previously receiving funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners.
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Funded Companies
Snapchat, a product of Snap Inc., is a free image messaging application and augmented reality platform.
A health technology start-up based in San Francisco. It was founded in 2012 by Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith and produces a mobile application for sleep, relaxation, and meditation.
Nest is a Palo Alto, California-based developer of home automation and IoT products founded in 2010 by Tony Fadell.
Carta (formerly eShares) is a San Francisco based cap table management platform that offers 409A valuations, products for investors and public companies.
AppZen is a San Jose-based company that provides an AI-based auditing platform for finance teams.
Ripple is a global currency exchange and remittance network that aims to lower the cost and improve the speed of international bank transfers relative to legacy financial infrastructure.
Personetics' self-driving finance platform for banks to anticipate a customer's personalized banking needs through artificial intelligence.
AI software platform for recruiting and talent management
Udaan is an Indian business-to-business e-commerce company based in Bengalore. It was registered as Hiveloop Technology pvt.ltd. in 2016.
Guardant Health is a Redwood City, California-based biotechnology company developing precision oncology treatments.
Blend invites companies that service the mortgage industry to sell digital tools--APIs--through its platform.
OYO is a south East Asian hospitality company.
Affirm is a financial technology services company offering installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.
Daily Harvest is a New York City-based company founded in 2015 by Rachel Drori.
Confluera is a cybersecurity company that is interested in providing an autonomous detection and response platform that stops attackers from navigating personal infrastructure
QuantumScape is a renewable energy company that is making battery technology for electric vehicles.
A company offering delivery service for time-critical shipments using high-speed long-range drones
BetterUp is a mobile-based leadership development platform.
DataStax delivers a distributed cloud database built on Apache Cassandra
A company developing tests for pre-implantation genetic diagnosis for IVF and non-invasive prenatal test
Biotechnology company using Artificial Intelligence to discover drugs by translating life sciences big data into therapies
Moveworks is an AI, machine learning, enterprise natural language understanding (NLU) and chatbot platform that resolves IT Service Desk support issues.
A company offering an online platform for small and medium-sized businesses to gain access to financial products.
A software company using artificial intelligence to create a computer vision platform for customer onboarding and security. It was founded in 2015 and is located in Holon, Israel.
ThoughtSpot is a business intelligence platform for exploring, analyzing, and sharing real-time business analytics data.
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Adam Zheng
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Peter Nieh
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Rebecca Belknap
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