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What does Light Street Capital invest in?
Light Street Capital invests most often at Series D and Growth (80% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Disruptive Technology.
Light Street Capital highlights
- 01
2 cheques in the last 12 months
- 02
Mostly Series D and Growth: 80% of its rounds
- 03
Led 3 rounds
What they do
Investing in disruptive technology businesses globally.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Sectors
- Disruptive Technology
- Based in
- Palo Alto, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first6 appearances
- 2026
2 rounds
- Sept
- Jul
- 2024
1 round
- Dec
- 2019
3 rounds
- Jul
- May
- Apr
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration6 named
GWGeorge William LynchChief Operating Officer of Light Street Capital Management, LLC, General PartneriFiling they signed
GTGlen Thomas KacherManager of Light Street Capital Management, LLC, General PartneriFiling they signed
JDJames David LindbergCOO and CFO of Light Street Capital Management, LLC, General PartneriFiling they signed
JKJay KahnManaging Member of the General PartneriFiling they signed
RMRobert Michael WenzellChief Financial Officer of Light Street Capital Management, LLC, General PartneriFiling they signed
TJTheo Jeremy RobinsChief Compliance Officer of Light Street Capital Management, LLC, General PartneriFiling they signed
We also hold 10 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$1.6Bassets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Light Street Capital Management, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 155215
Funds on its Form ADV
19 private funds, $1.2B in gross assets · filed Mar 2024
Private equity 11Hedge 8
- Light Street Mercury Master Fund, L.P.Hedge3 investors$414M
- Light Street Argon, L.P.Hedge256 investors$177M
- Light Street Beacon II, L.P.Private equity145 investors$157M
- Light Street Xenon, LTD.Hedge102 investors$104M
- Light Street Tungsten Master Fund, L.P.Hedge3 investors$83M
- Light Street SPV5, L.P.Private equity46 investors$43M
- Light Street Beacon I, L.P.Private equity63 investors$43M
- Light Street Tungsten Onshore Fund, L.P.Hedge25 investors$40M
- Light Street SPV6, L.P.Private equity81 investors$40M
- Light Street SPVH, L.P.Private equity33 investors$18M
And 9 more on the filing.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
17 of 23 we have independently watched raise
AyarlabsClariEzcaterHadrianHarrysIPOIPOIPOIPOIllumioIpronicsLumindigitalMadeiramadeiraScaleSmarthrSolvhealthTossAcquiredIPOIPOIPOIPOLight Street Fund
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.