Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed Europe is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage and growth investments across various sectors, including consumer, health, and fintech. With its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and regional offices in Europe, Israel, India, and China, Lightspeed aims to identify and support innovative companies that can disrupt traditional markets. The firm invests in a wide range of industries, such as enterprise technology, e-commerce, software, and biotechnology, providing both equity and debt financing. Lightspeed has a particular interest in technology-led businesses, as well as opportunities in advertising, media, healthcare, education, and retail. Its investment strategy emphasizes the provision of capital along with ongoing consulting and advisory services to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses effectively.

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Akshay Bhushan

Partner

Guru Chahal

Partner

James Ephrati

Partner

Adam Goldberg

Venture Partner

Gaurav Gupta

Partner

David Gussarsky

Partner

Wei Hao

Executive Director - LCP

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Raviraj Jain

Partner

Arif Janmohamed

Partner

Ansaf Kareem

Partner

Harsha Kumar

Associate Partner

Pinn Lawjindakul

Partner

Will Leas

Partner

Jeremy Liew

Partner

Ravi Mhatre

Founder and Managing Director

Hemant Mohapatra

Partner

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Justin Overdorff

Partner

Nicole Quinn

General Partner

Christopher Schaepe

Co-Founder

Shan Shan

Partner

Anoushka Vaswani

Partner

Jerry Ye

Partner, Data Platform

Past deals in Media

AudioMob

Series A in 2021
AudioMob allows brands to connect with the mobile gaming audience using in-game audio ads. AudioMob helps developers in monetizing their games through non-interrupting audio ads. The company was founded in 2020 and is located in London, England.

Curastory

Seed Round in 2021
Curastory is a video enablement tool for creators allowing them to edit, monetize, distribute, and analyze their videos across social media. For monetization, we are the first programmatic media buying solution for creator ad reads.

InVideo

Seed Round in 2019
InVideo offers a browser-based platform for video creation and editing. The company provides templates, media assets, and customizable features. It includes a flexible timeline and a drag-and-drop editor. InVideo also provides customer support and has a community for creators. The platform is available on mobile devices through its app, Filmr.

Encantos

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Encantos is an award-winning online platform connecting kids with the world's best storyteachers to teach them 21st century skills. Encantos has received numerous industry awards and accolades from the AP, ASU GSV, CNN, Common Sense Media, Forbes, Kidscreen, Kirkus Reviews, NBC News, The New York Times, NPR, Parents Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Romper, School Library Journal, Univision and USA Today.

Cheddar

Series D in 2018
Cheddar is the post-cable news, media, and entertainment company. Cheddar broadcasts live on SlingTV, Hulu Live, YouTube TV, Philo, Twitter, Facebook Watch, Pluto, Xumo and more. Watched live by more than 6.5M people each month, Cheddar also garners hundreds of millions of organic video views monthly across Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, LinkedIn and other social & distributed video platforms. Cheddar currently broadcasts two live video news networks: Cheddar, a business news network covering the most innovative executives, founders, products, and technologies transforming our lives and economy; and Cheddar Big News, a fast-paced, young, non-partisan general news and headline news network. The company broadcasts from the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, its street-level studio in the glass corner of the Sprint Store in the Flatiron Building, WeWork in Los Angeles, and the White House. Cheddar was founded by Jon Steinberg, President and Chief Operating Officer of BuzzFeed from 2010 to 2014.

Intermedia Labs

Venture Round in 2018
Intermedia Labs is a consumer-based video technology firm inventing the future of television.

Cheddar

Series C in 2017
Cheddar is the post-cable news, media, and entertainment company. Cheddar broadcasts live on SlingTV, Hulu Live, YouTube TV, Philo, Twitter, Facebook Watch, Pluto, Xumo and more. Watched live by more than 6.5M people each month, Cheddar also garners hundreds of millions of organic video views monthly across Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, LinkedIn and other social & distributed video platforms. Cheddar currently broadcasts two live video news networks: Cheddar, a business news network covering the most innovative executives, founders, products, and technologies transforming our lives and economy; and Cheddar Big News, a fast-paced, young, non-partisan general news and headline news network. The company broadcasts from the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, its street-level studio in the glass corner of the Sprint Store in the Flatiron Building, WeWork in Los Angeles, and the White House. Cheddar was founded by Jon Steinberg, President and Chief Operating Officer of BuzzFeed from 2010 to 2014.

Mic Network

Series C in 2017
Mic is the leading digital news company for society’s changemakers, who most influence and impact the world. The company also offers news on various sections, such as politics, world, business, culture, science, media, national, environment, and economy. Mic reaches a monthly audience of 50 million with original reporting on the most important issues through diverse perspectives that challenge conventional thinking. It was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, NY, USA.

Cheddar

Series B in 2016
Cheddar is the post-cable news, media, and entertainment company. Cheddar broadcasts live on SlingTV, Hulu Live, YouTube TV, Philo, Twitter, Facebook Watch, Pluto, Xumo and more. Watched live by more than 6.5M people each month, Cheddar also garners hundreds of millions of organic video views monthly across Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, LinkedIn and other social & distributed video platforms. Cheddar currently broadcasts two live video news networks: Cheddar, a business news network covering the most innovative executives, founders, products, and technologies transforming our lives and economy; and Cheddar Big News, a fast-paced, young, non-partisan general news and headline news network. The company broadcasts from the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, its street-level studio in the glass corner of the Sprint Store in the Flatiron Building, WeWork in Los Angeles, and the White House. Cheddar was founded by Jon Steinberg, President and Chief Operating Officer of BuzzFeed from 2010 to 2014.

Mic Network

Series B in 2015
Mic is the leading digital news company for society’s changemakers, who most influence and impact the world. The company also offers news on various sections, such as politics, world, business, culture, science, media, national, environment, and economy. Mic reaches a monthly audience of 50 million with original reporting on the most important issues through diverse perspectives that challenge conventional thinking. It was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, NY, USA.

Mic Network

Series A in 2014
Mic is the leading digital news company for society’s changemakers, who most influence and impact the world. The company also offers news on various sections, such as politics, world, business, culture, science, media, national, environment, and economy. Mic reaches a monthly audience of 50 million with original reporting on the most important issues through diverse perspectives that challenge conventional thinking. It was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, NY, USA.

Mic Network

Seed Round in 2013
Mic is the leading digital news company for society’s changemakers, who most influence and impact the world. The company also offers news on various sections, such as politics, world, business, culture, science, media, national, environment, and economy. Mic reaches a monthly audience of 50 million with original reporting on the most important issues through diverse perspectives that challenge conventional thinking. It was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, NY, USA.

LiveU

Series D in 2012
LiveU creates, develops and markets real-time video technologies and solutions that enable video broadcasters to uplink and transmit live instantly, anywhere, and at anytime.

Rhythm NewMedia

Venture Round in 2012
Rhythm connects brand advertisers with highly engaged mobile audiences by selling and serving video, rich media and other immersive advertising formats. Rhythm has partnered with more than 50 premium media companies, typically on an exclusive basis, across an unparalleled portfolio of 200+ properties to deliver meaningful brand advertising within the highest quality content for targeted, relevant audiences. Our premium media partners include NBC Universal, CBS, Sony, ABC, Fox, Warner Bros., IAC, Demand Media and many others. In 2011 alone, more than 200 top brand advertisers including P&G, Unilever, Disney, Paramount, General Motors, Ford, AT&T, Verizon, Macy's, Marriott and Microsoft have run campaigns with Rhythm and achieved unprecedented engagement results. Investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, and QuestMark Partners.

Rhythm NewMedia

Series C in 2010
Rhythm connects brand advertisers with highly engaged mobile audiences by selling and serving video, rich media and other immersive advertising formats. Rhythm has partnered with more than 50 premium media companies, typically on an exclusive basis, across an unparalleled portfolio of 200+ properties to deliver meaningful brand advertising within the highest quality content for targeted, relevant audiences. Our premium media partners include NBC Universal, CBS, Sony, ABC, Fox, Warner Bros., IAC, Demand Media and many others. In 2011 alone, more than 200 top brand advertisers including P&G, Unilever, Disney, Paramount, General Motors, Ford, AT&T, Verizon, Macy's, Marriott and Microsoft have run campaigns with Rhythm and achieved unprecedented engagement results. Investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, and QuestMark Partners.

Greentech Media

Series B in 2008
Greentech Media is an online media company that provides news, in-depth market research, and analysis on the Greentech B2B market. They plan to offer both critical business information and a platform that allows companies to communicate most effectively with their investors, partners, and customers. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Flixster

Series B in 2008
Flixster is a social networking site for movie fans. Users can create their own profiles, invite friends, rate movies and actors, and post movie reviews as well. From the site, people can also get information about movies, read user-generated movie reviews and ratings, converse with other users, get movie showtimes, view popular celebrity photos, read the latest movie news, and view video clips from popular movies and TV shows. With so many features, Flixster seems to have created a fairly comprehensive movie social networking site, which may in turn explain its rapid growth in popularity. Flixster currently has over 50 million registered users with over 1.5 billion movie ratings, and has already outpaced (in total page views) other movie sites such as Fandango. And while the site is still dwarfed in terms of total page views by the more informationally-based IMDB, its emphasis on combining social networking with movies and rapid rise in user base make for a promising company future.

Greentech Media

Series A in 2007
Greentech Media is an online media company that provides news, in-depth market research, and analysis on the Greentech B2B market. They plan to offer both critical business information and a platform that allows companies to communicate most effectively with their investors, partners, and customers. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Flixster

Series A in 2007
Flixster, Inc. operates an online platform that serves as a social networking site for movie enthusiasts in the United States and Australia. Founded in 2005 and based in San Francisco, the platform allows users to create profiles, invite friends, rate movies and actors, and share reviews. It provides access to movie information, showtimes, celebrity news, and video clips, fostering a community where users can engage with one another. With over 50 million registered users and more than 1.5 billion movie ratings, Flixster has gained significant popularity and outperformed other movie sites in total page views. The company also offers advertising services and is a subsidiary of Fandango Media, LLC.

Rhythm NewMedia

Series B in 2006
Rhythm connects brand advertisers with highly engaged mobile audiences by selling and serving video, rich media and other immersive advertising formats. Rhythm has partnered with more than 50 premium media companies, typically on an exclusive basis, across an unparalleled portfolio of 200+ properties to deliver meaningful brand advertising within the highest quality content for targeted, relevant audiences. Our premium media partners include NBC Universal, CBS, Sony, ABC, Fox, Warner Bros., IAC, Demand Media and many others. In 2011 alone, more than 200 top brand advertisers including P&G, Unilever, Disney, Paramount, General Motors, Ford, AT&T, Verizon, Macy's, Marriott and Microsoft have run campaigns with Rhythm and achieved unprecedented engagement results. Investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, and QuestMark Partners.

Rhythm NewMedia

Series A in 2005
Rhythm connects brand advertisers with highly engaged mobile audiences by selling and serving video, rich media and other immersive advertising formats. Rhythm has partnered with more than 50 premium media companies, typically on an exclusive basis, across an unparalleled portfolio of 200+ properties to deliver meaningful brand advertising within the highest quality content for targeted, relevant audiences. Our premium media partners include NBC Universal, CBS, Sony, ABC, Fox, Warner Bros., IAC, Demand Media and many others. In 2011 alone, more than 200 top brand advertisers including P&G, Unilever, Disney, Paramount, General Motors, Ford, AT&T, Verizon, Macy's, Marriott and Microsoft have run campaigns with Rhythm and achieved unprecedented engagement results. Investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, and QuestMark Partners.
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