Lightspeed Venture Partners
Global venture capital firm investing across multiple technology sectors and geographies.
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“DoubleAI, a three-year-old Jerusalem startup that develops AI models that reduce computing costs by optimizing how software runs on CPUs and GPUs, raised a $220 million Series A round at a $1+ billion post-money valuation. The deal was co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, with NVIDIA, Dell Technologies Capital...”
“Bucky Moore is stepping down as a partner with Lightspeed Venture Partners, which he joined early last year from Kleiner Perkins, to launch his own VC firm (smaller scale than Lightspeed).”
“ElevenLabs... completed a $300 million employee tender offer at a $22 billion valuation, double its $11 billion valuation in February. The tender was led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price, with EQT and Goldman Sachs as well as previous investors Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners”
Source→“Raises $311M Series E Round from Catalio Capital Management, Premji Invest, ICONIQ, Dimension, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Durable Capital Partners, True Ventures, T. Rowe Price, Baillie Gifford...”
“Goldman Sachs Asset Management - US Fund of Funds / institutional investor, AUM $570B+. Largest AUM entity visible in the image; backs Angel, Accel, Lightspeed, and Venture Partners”
Source→“Lexington Partners (Franklin Templeton) - US Fund of Funds, AUM ~$77B. Major institutional LP backing Lightspeed Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, and Index Ventures”
Source→“BlackRock Private Equity Partners - US-based institutional LP. Named in the database as backing Accel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Benchmark, and 10+ ranked VC managers”
Source→“Grove Street Advisors - Wellesley, MA-based Fund of Funds, AUM ~$8B. Active LP with named VC affiliations including Lightspeed, New Enterprise Associates, and Index Ventures; 25+ ranked VC managers”
Source→“Vintage Investment Partners - Israel/UK-based VC Fund of Funds, AUM ~$4B. International LP example; backs Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, New Enterprise Associates, and 79+ ranked VC managers”
Source→“Top Tier Capital Partners - US Fund of Funds, San Francisco, AUM ~$5B. Active LP backing Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, and 42+ ranked VC managers”
Source→“Airbound (Tail-sitter drone delivery technology) Raises $37M Series A Round from Greenoaks Capital Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners.”
Source→“Within two months they'd closed a $4.25M seed round led by Lightspeed (Mike Mignano was there at the time)”
Source→“Fractile, a British AI chip startup, reportedly is in talks to raise $600m at a $6.5b valuation from backers like Lightspeed, Redpoint Ventures, Thrive Capital, and Founders Fund.”
Source→“Alex LaPolice joined Lightspeed as an NYC-based partner. He previously was with Summit Partners.”
“Harmony... Raises $34M Seed Round from Lightspeed Venture Partners.”
“Munich-based defense startup Helsing secured a $1.8 billion Series E from investors including Dragoneer Investment Group, Lightspeed and General Catalyst at an $18 billion valuation.”
Source→“Helsing, a five-year-old Munich startup that builds drones, underwater surveillance systems, and AI software for military applications, raised a $1.8 billion round at an $18 billion post-money valuation. Investors included JPMorgan Chase, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Iconiq.”
Source→“Reflection AI raised $2.5 billion at a $27.5 billion valuation from Nvidia, Sequoia, Lightspeed, JPMorgan and B Capital.”
“$64M Series A as the first clear agentic AI security pure-play to receive major institutional backing”
Source→“Arif Janmohamed is transitioning to venture partner from partner at Lightspeed, as he plans to launch a new early-stage firm.”
“Straiker…Raised $64M Series A for enterprise AI agent vulnerability testing... Investors included Citi Ventures, Workday Ventures, Bain, Lightspeed”
Source→“Andera — AI-native internal audit automation for enterprises. Raised $37M Series A from Lightspeed Venture Partners.”
Source→“Nnamdi Iregbulem's (Lightspeed) model-based analysis of active seed-stage startup stock shows the number of live seed companies peaked in Q3 2022.”
“Multi-institutional backing for EV infrastructure in India; signals cleantech momentum in emerging markets”
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