Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that describes itself as a first call for AI founders for over a decade and as an early backer of new companies for more than twenty years. It invests from Seed to Series F and beyond, with a presence in the United States, Europe, Israel, Southeast Asia and India. The operating entity is Lightspeed Management Company, L.L.C.

The firm's website is organized around its portfolio, team, stories, research and events, and it runs programs for founders under Founder Experience and Launch. Its India business is run by a separate entity, Lightspeed India Partners, and it also holds interests in Faction Ventures, a separate firm. The homepage presents depth as its philosophy: possibility grows the deeper you go.

• Stage coverage: Seed through Series F and beyond
• AI focus: portfolio logos on the homepage include Anthropic, Mistral AI, Cartesia, Abridge, Glean, Suno and xAI
• Founder programs: Founder Experience and Launch sections
• Research: a Research Hub and Stories section
• Regions: United States, Europe, Israel, Southeast Asia and India

The site names portfolio companies and their founders, among them ThoughtSpot (Ajeet Singh), Anthropic (Dario Amodei), Wiz (Assaf Rappaport), Cyera (Yotam Segev), Ultima Genomics (Gilad Almogy), Rubrik (Bipul Sinha), Navan (Ariel Cohen), Faire (Max Rhodes), Alloy (Laura Spiekerman), BetterUp (Alexi Robichaux), The Honest Company (Jessica Alba), Cato Networks (Shlomo Kramer) and Netskope (Sanjay Beri). Recent investments in its news feed include Ramp, Fireworks AI, ElevenLabs, Temporal and Exa.