Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Overview

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies.

Lightspeed Venture Partners invests in various sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social. It mainly invests in countries such as the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India.

Highlights

Founded

2000

Industry

Financial Services

Employees

101-250

Investment

1407

Lead Investment

505

Exits

237

Stages

Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Private Equity

Investor Type

Venture Capital

Location

United States, North America

Contact Information

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Lightspeed Venture Partners, established in 2000 and headquartered in United States, North America., specializes in Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Private Equity investments across Mobile, Advertising, Marketing, Gaming, Apps, Financial Services, Venture Capital, Finance, E-Commerce, Search Engine. The organization boasts a portfolio of 1000+ investments, with an average round size of $85.3M and 237 successful exits. Their recent investments include RockYou, Sequoia Capital, First Round Capital, Partech, TheFind, Inc.. The highest investment round they participated in was $8390.5B. Among their most notable exits are RockYou and Sequoia Capital. Explore their portfolio in detail, see who is connected to them, and find their contact information on our platform.

Employees

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Barry Eggers

Founder and Partner

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Ravi Mhatre

Founder and Managing Director

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Peter Nieh

Partner and Co-Founder

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Will Kohler

Partner

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Jeremy Liew

Partner

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Christopher Schaepe

Co-Founder

Investment portfolio

Lightspeed Venture Partners has made 1407 investments. Their most recent investment was on Aug 01, 2024, when Contextual AI raised $80.0M.

Lightspeed Venture Partners has made 198 diversity investments. Their most recent diversity investment was on Jul 25, 2024, when Chainguard raised $140.0M.

investments

1407

Diversity investments

198

Lead investments

505

Number of exits

237

Investments

1407

Annouced DateOrganization NameIndustryMoney Raised
Jul 25, 2024
Chainguard Chainguard
Developer Tools140.0M
Jul 30, 2024--8.5M
Aug 01, 2024
Contextual AI Contextual AI
Software80.0M
Aug 06, 2024--105.0M

Exits

237

Funding Timeline

Funding rounds

1407

Investors

0

Funds

28

Funding Rounds

1407

Lightspeed Venture Partners has raised 1407 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Aug 06, 2024 from a Venture Round - Stori round.

Annouced DateTransaction NameNumber of InvestorsMoney RaisedLead Investor
Jul 25, 2024
Series C - Chainguard Series C - Chainguard
-140.0M-
Jul 30, 2024
Seed Round - Clutch Security Seed Round - Clutch Security
-8.5M-
Aug 01, 2024
Series A - Contextual AI Series A - Contextual AI
-80.0M-
Aug 06, 2024
Venture Round - Stori Venture Round - Stori
-105.0M-

Investors

0

There is no funding round available on this profile

Fund raised

2

Susa Ventures has raised a total of $590M across 6 funds, their latest being Susa Ventures Opportunities II. This fund was announced on Aug 30, 2021 and raised a total of $250M.

Annouced DateFund NameMoney Raised
May 10, 2013
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1.0M
May 11, 2013
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1.0M

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