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What does Lightspeed Venture Partners invest in?
Lightspeed Venture Partners invests most often at Series A and Series B (49% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Waste, Biodiversity and Environnement.
Lightspeed Venture Partners highlights
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183 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series A and Series B: 49% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 79 rounds, median $6.5M
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65 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage VC firm backing bold founders and disruptive innovations from Seed to Series F.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries BGrowthPre-IPO
- Sectors
- WasteBiodiversityEnvironnement
- Based in
- Menlo Park, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first1,338 appearances
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157 rounds
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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 registration16 named
AJAndrew John MoleyChief Financial OfficeriForm ADV
AJArif JanmohamedManaging Member of General Partner of General PartneriFiling they signed
BFBarry Francis EggersThe Managing Member of the Managing Member of the General Partner of the General Partner of LS Opportunities Access Fund IV, L.P.iFiling they signed
BSBejul SomaiaThe Managing Member of the Managing Member of the General Partner of the General Partner of LS Opportunities Access Fund IV, L.P.iFiling they signed
CJChristopher J. SchaepeDirector of Upper-Tier General PartnersiFiling they signed
HBHaleemah Bibi BulladinDirectoriFiling they signed
IKIsaac KimExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
JJJeremy J. LiewManaging Member of General Partner of General PartneriFiling they signed
JJJohn J. VrionisDirector of Upper-Tier General PartneriFiling they signed
NPNieh PeterThe Managing Member of the Managing Member of the General Partner of the General Partner of Lightspeed Platinum, L.P.iFiling they signed
NCNikhil Chandulal ShahDirectoriFiling they signed
PYPeter Yao-Ping NiehThe Managing Member of the Managing Member of the General Partner of the General Partner of LS Opportunities Access Fund IV, L.P.iFiling they signed
RBRavi Brian MhatreManaging Member of the Managing Member of the General Partner of the General Partner of LS Opportunities Access Fund IV, L.P.iFiling they signed
RBResmah Bibi ChoomkaDirectoriFiling they signed
RHRob HortonExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
RCRyan ConnorDirectoriFiling they signed
We also hold 129 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
$50Bassets it managesOct 2026
14+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Lightspeed Management Company, L.L.C.
- SEC number
- CRD 160187
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in Lightspeed Venture Partners's funds
- Committed
- $860M
- Funds
- 8
- Vintages
- 2022 to 2025
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Mar 2026.
California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)8 funds$860M
Fund Vintage Committed Lightspeed Opportunity Fund III 2025 $225M Lightspeed Venture Partners Select VI 2025 $125M Lightspeed Venture Partners XV-B (Ignite) 2025 $61M Lightspeed Venture Partners XV-A (Inception) 2025 $50M Lightspeed Opportunity Fund II 2022 $200M Lightspeed Venture Partners Select V 2022 $100M Lightspeed Venture Partners XIV-B (Ignite) 2022 $55M Lightspeed Venture Partners XIV-A (Inception) 2022 $45M
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
0 of 2 we have independently watched raise
LighthouseLsip
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.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed65 in all
Affirmed NetworksBought by Microsoft$1.4BMar 2020
ElastifileBought by GoogleUndisclosedJul 2019
Avere SystemsBought by MicrosoftUndisclosedJan 2018
TownrushBought by GrofersUndisclosedOct 2015
Riverbed TechnologyBought by Thoma Bravo$3.5BApr 2015
TheFind, Inc.Bought by FacebookUndisclosedMar 2015
99BillBought by WANDA GroupUndisclosedDec 2014
EvolvBought by Cornerstone OnDemand$45MOct 2014
Memoir SystemsBought by CiscoUndisclosedSept 2014
HealthPocketBought by Health Insurance Innovations,$32MJul 2014
DhinganaBought by RdioUndisclosedMar 2014
LS9Bought by Renewable Energy Group$62MJan 2014
Revel TouchBought by RollickUndisclosedDec 2013
The latest 20 here. An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.