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.
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Lightspeed Venture Partners XII, L.P.
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.
Lightspeed Venture Partners Select III, L.P.
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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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.
American home automation producer
A biotechnology company developing precision oncology treatments.
Blend invites companies that service the mortgage industry to sell digital tools--APIs--through its platform.
Snapchat, a product of Snap Inc., is a free image messaging application and augmented reality platform.
OYO is a south East Asian hospitality company.
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
Affirm is a financial technology services company offering installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.
DataStax delivers a distributed cloud database built on Apache Cassandra
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 developing tests for pre-implantation genetic diagnosis for IVF and non-invasive prenatal test
A company offering an online platform for small and medium-sized businesses to gain access to financial products.
Gainsight, Inc. is a privately held service as a software company founded in 2009 by Jim Eberlin and Sreedhar Peddineni. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
American technology company
ThoughtSpot is a Palo Alto, California-based company.
TerraVia is a food and biotechnology company making nutritional and specialty ingredients. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and was founded in 2003 by Jonathan Wolfson and Harrison Dillon.
Exabeam is a San Mateo, California-based data security analytics company offering cybersecurity and early cyber attack detection software.
exCater is a Boston, MA based online catering marketplace.
CloudBees is a provider of continuous delivery software services.
People.ai is an AI platform based on sales and marketing.
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Apoorva Pandhi
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Arif Janmohamed
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Beatrice Pang
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Bipul Sinha
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Brittany Dreibelbis
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Caleb Marshack
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Carl Showalter
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Catherine Surane
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Chris Adams
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David Chen
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David Gussarsky
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Demi Giannini
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Evelyn (Evie) Gillie
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Gerry Giacoman Colyer
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Jeremy Liew
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Jesse Janosov
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Justin Caldbeck
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Luke Beseda
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Lyon Wong
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Nakul Mandan
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Peter Nieh
Founder
Rebecca Belknap
Employee
Samer Hamadeh
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