Lightspeed Venture Partners

Bachatt is a daily savings led financial services platform. Bachatt aims to address a critical need for over 30 crore self-employed individuals in India. while self-employed individuals earn daily, their expenses often require large, infrequent payments, creating a major cash flow challenge. This, coupled with the inherent variability in daily earnings, makes managing finances extremely difficult. Our vision is to become their trusted daily savings partner, helping them establish financial discipline. This strong foundation will then unlock access to a suite of financial products (loans, high-yield instruments, insurance, etc.) at more favorable terms.

Goodfire's mission is to advance humanity's understanding of AI by examining the inner workings of advanced AI models (or “AI Interpretability”). As an applied research lab, Goodfire bridges the gap between theoretical science and practical applications of interpretability.

Virtue AI operates as an AI security and compliance platform for applications.

Safe Superintelligence is an artificial intelligence research lab that solves the technical challenge of building superhuman intelligence. The company operates a dedicated lab to advance capabilities while prioritizing safety through revolutionary engineering.

LightSource develops a supply chain management platform to help professionals collaborate with their suppliers. It also allows collaborating with teammates on strategic sourcing projects, sending RFQs to suppliers and collecting quotes, and comparing bids using insights automatically extracted from the normal day-to-day work. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Nexthop AI develops AI infrastructure and custom networking solutions for large cloud operators, focusing on enhancing operational efficiency and connectivity within complex network environments. The company offers a range of services, including network automation, data management, and analytics, enabling clients to optimize their network performance and streamline their operations. Through its innovative solutions, Nexthop AI addresses the challenges faced by cloud operators, providing tools that facilitate seamless integration and scalability in dynamic computing environments. Additionally, Nexthop AI emphasizes compatibility with open-source network operating systems, allowing clients to leverage existing technologies while implementing advanced networking strategies.

Slikk updates its styles on a regular basis, allowing users to stay up to date on current trends. To keep up with the continuously changing fashion market, Slikk brings the latest trends directly to its clients' doorsteps, with new styles arriving weekly.

Crossmint is the leading enterprise-grade developer platform to build onchain. Crossmint's suite of products includes wallets, tokenization, payments, and more; and powers 40,000+ companies and developers, including Fortune 500 companies and major brands like Mastercard, Adidas, Red Bull, Coinbase, Phantom, and more.

RedotPay is a blockchain technology company that specializes in crypto wallets and payment solutions.

Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.

Nirvana Insurance is an AI-driven commercial trucking insurer that utilizes telematics data to enhance safety and reduce fleet costs. The company leverages artificial intelligence and telematics data to offer personalized insurance solutions that reward safe driving practices. Nirvana provides tailored policies for both fleet and non-fleet operators, including options such as auto liability, auto physical damage, general liability, and motor truck cargo coverage. By analyzing telematics data, Nirvana offers upfront discounts of up to 20% for safe driving behaviors. Their Safety Intelligence Platform delivers AI-powered insights to help fleets enhance safety and efficiency. Utilizing real-time data, Nirvana streamlines the claims process, enabling faster resolutions and reducing downtime for drivers.

Reflection.AI is a start-up that develops artificial intelligence solutions, focusing on computer vision. The company provides tools to create personalized AIs that can interact and chat just like real people, using cutting-edge technology.

Zocks is a real-time insight and privacy for enhanced video calls. It was founded in 2022 and was headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Bridgetown Research creates AI agents with a research and analysis focus, utilizing primary and secondary data for verticals such as strategy, consulting, and private equity.

Frontera Health is changing autism care in underprivileged regions with AI-powered tools that assist physicians in evaluating and treating children with autism and related diseases.

K2 Space, founded in 2022 by Karan Kunjur and Neel Kunjur, is based in West Hollywood, California. The company develops aerospace hardware products with a focus on space architecture, particularly satellite buses that provide essential power and movement for spacecraft. By specializing in the latest generation of launch vehicles, K2 Space aims to facilitate access to the solar system for spacecraft manufacturers, enabling them to utilize new large rockets effectively.

With a mission to keep athletes active and thriving in their chosen sports for as long as possible, Eternal provides members with a holistic understanding of their health, fitness, and benchmarks for key markers of the aging process along with guidance from high-performance care teams to support every stage of an athlete’s journey.

Archive is a technology company that specializes in creating customized resale programs for brands, helping them manage their secondhand markets effectively. By partnering with notable brands, Archive designs tailored resale experiences that extend the lifecycle of clothing and generate additional revenue streams. The company leverages its advanced technology and logistics capabilities to facilitate various resale models, including peer-to-peer sales, product take-backs, and brand-owned inventory management. Through its proprietary software, Archive empowers brands to launch comprehensive resale businesses that not only enhance customer loyalty but also attract new customers, all while aiming to reduce the environmental impact of the fashion industry.

Observo AI was created to help Security and DevOps teams solve their biggest telemetry data problems. Observo AI helps you reduce security and observability costs by 50% or more while resolving incidents more than 40% faster.

Oligo aims to streamline the usage of open source by making it secure and easy to protect. By focusing developers on the relevant vulnerabilities we make the fixing process significantly shorter.

Castelion is a venture-backed defense tech company applying modern hardware development and manufacturing processes to critical national security challenges, specifically to solve affordability, scale, and supply chain robustness.

Whizzo specializes in materials science-driven manufacturing of engineered fashion and technical textiles. Our expertise lies in creating and executing innovative textile blends tailored for applications across automotive, agriculture, medical textiles, and engineered fashion.

Neko Health is a Swedish health-tech company focused on enhancing healthcare through prevention and early detection of diseases. It has developed innovative medical scanning technology that enables comprehensive and non-invasive health data collection, making it accessible and affordable for the general public. By leveraging sensor technology and artificial intelligence, Neko Health aims to reduce the prevalence of common diseases and their associated healthcare costs. The company provides doctors and clinicians with tools for flexible and cost-effective examinations, ultimately aiming to improve the quality of healthcare and promote proactive health management.

Anatomy Financial offers a suite of financial automation solutions tailored for healthcare organizations that bill insurance. The services include AI-powered EOB conversion, smart reconciliation, and a modern healthcare lockbox to streamline financial workflows.

Orqa is a technology company focused on First Person View (FPV) and advanced Remote Reality. It specializes in developing innovative drone technology products that address challenges within the FPV market. The company has created a video headset designed for applications in drone racing, freestyle flying, and first-person view simulations. This headset features augmented reality capabilities, a large field of view, and various user-friendly options such as DVR recording, battery monitoring, eye relief adjustments, and diopter slots. By integrating these features, Orqa aims to enhance the remote reality experience for its users.

Fiddler is a pioneer in enterprise Model Performance Management. Data Science, MLOps, and LOB teams use Fiddler to monitor, explain, analyze, and improve their models and build trust into AI. The unified environment provides a common language, centralized controls, and actionable insights to operationalize ML/AI with trust. It addresses the unique challenges of building in-house stable and secure MLOps systems at scale. Unlike observability solutions, Fiddler seamlessly integrates deep XAI and analytics to help you grow into advanced capabilities over time and build a framework for responsible AI practices. F500 organizations use Fiddler across training and production models to accelerate AI time-to-value and scale and increase revenue by connecting predictions to business context (or providing visibility into model performance and behavior).

Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.

SolarSquare Energy is a residential solar company that specializes in designing and installing rooftop solar panels for homes and small commercial establishments. The company aims to drive the mass adoption of solar energy by converting sunlight into usable electricity, enabling clients to reduce their energy costs and achieve sustainability goals. With a client base that includes over 4,000 homeowners and several Fortune 500 companies, SolarSquare is dedicated to providing solutions that help customers save a minimum of Rs. 2,000 on their monthly electricity bills. Additionally, the company offers maintenance services for its solar systems, ensuring reliability and efficiency for its clients.

Eon is an enterprise backup and recovery solution that uses automatic mapping and classification to ensure that only essential data is stored. The EON platform is designed to enhance operational excellence through cloud-based software that implements improvements, develops capabilities, and measures results effectively. The company focuses on backup posture management, helping businesses classify and index their cloud resources efficiently, ensuring that essential data is prioritized in storage.

XAI develops artificial intelligence technologies for data analysis and decision-making. It uses machine learning algorithms to increase accuracy. XAI operates in finance, healthcare, and logistics industries.

Keychain is a CPG production platform that collaborates with retailers and brands to streamline and simplify the process of developing items that consumers adore.

Outsmart Education seeks to increase college accessibility and affordability in the face of growing student loan debt and tuition prices.

ScaleOps is a platform that optimizes Kubernetes resources through real-time automation and application context awareness. It reduces cloud costs significantly while enhancing application performance and reliability in production environments. The service allows engineers to focus on critical tasks by automating resource allocation and management.

Bhanzu is a math-learning platform aimed at fostering interest in math and STEM careers among students of all ages. The platform offers a carefully crafted curriculum that caters to individual learning needs, ensuring a customized educational experience. Bhanzu provides a variety of educational resources, including videos that address common challenges such as math anxiety, particularly for younger learners in grades 1 to 3. By promoting experiential learning and enhancing cognitive abilities, Bhanzu helps students improve their math skills and apply mathematical concepts in real-world situations.

Table22 is a digital hospitality platform designed to assist local restaurants in enhancing their customer engagement and generating additional revenue beyond their physical locations. By enabling restaurants, chefs, and brands to connect with food enthusiasts, Table22 facilitates unique subscription experiences that foster strong relationships between diners and their favorite establishments. The platform offers patrons access to exclusive opportunities such as collaboration dinners, new menu items, and special cellar wines. This approach not only enriches the dining experience for customers but also helps restaurant owners establish stable, recurring revenue streams for their businesses.

Casap is a modern platform, it builds technology for financial services.

Pacific Fusion is engaged in the development of renewable energy power generation with a focus on affordable fusion power. Drawing inspiration from nature, the company is committed to leveraging established scientific principles while prioritizing scalability from the outset. With a team size of 11-50 employees, Pacific Fusion operates as a privately held entity. The company's efforts are directed towards creating sustainable energy solutions that can contribute to the clean energy sector. Pacific Fusion's approach combines innovation with practical design to address the growing demand for renewable energy sources.

Vinted operates an online marketplace intended to make second-hand the first choice. Its platform offers a peer-to-peer marketplace for girls and women to buy, sell, and swap clothes with an online chatting feature, enabling users to shop with ease at low cost.

Alpha9 Theranostics is a biopharma company that focuses on radiotherapeutics for the treatment of solid and hematologic malignancies. The company is creating a strong pipeline of radiopharmaceuticals to target solid and hematologic malignancies. Its systematic approach to radiotherapeutic design is fueled by a toolbox of technologies and chemistries, which offers broad potential for expansion into a multitude of oncology targets. Alpha9 Theranostics was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

TollBit is a content monetization platform that allows AI bots and data scrapers to pay websites directly to license their content and protects the health of the entire content ecosystem.

Trail Security is an intelligent data protection platform that builds solutions for data loss prevention. The company focuses on artificial intelligence-driven solutions for safeguarding sensitive data across various environments, including cloud, endpoint, and network systems. It utilizes real-time monitoring and automated classification to detect, block, and remediate potential data breaches, aiming to prevent unauthorized data sharing or accidental exposure. It also integrates machine learning models to identify user behavior anomalies, helping organizations to protect data at rest, in use, and transit, all while providing real-time insights into how data was accessed and shared. Trail Security operates in stealth mode.

A B2B platform connecting global companies for cost-effective chemical sourcing.

Avarra is an enterprise avatar and AI simulation firm. The first application provides realistic 3D AI avatars trained on web-meeting transcripts and best practice playbooks to correctly imitate client sales conversations.

PhysicsWallah is an online education platform focused on providing accessible and affordable learning resources for students in India preparing for competitive exams such as JEE and NEET, as well as board exams. The platform features live classes, recorded lectures in subjects like physics and chemistry, and a range of practice modules and test series. By offering dynamic exercises and specialized courses, PhysicsWallah aims to enhance students' understanding of complex concepts and improve their exam readiness. Through its comprehensive approach, the platform seeks to democratize quality education for a broad spectrum of learners.

P0 is a universal cloud-access governance platform, that secures all identities - human and machine, without affecting developer workflows

Eon is an enterprise backup and recovery solution that uses automatic mapping and classification to ensure that only essential data is stored. The EON platform is designed to enhance operational excellence through cloud-based software that implements improvements, develops capabilities, and measures results effectively. The company focuses on backup posture management, helping businesses classify and index their cloud resources efficiently, ensuring that essential data is prioritized in storage.

Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in providing an open and composable monitoring and observability stack centered around its flagship product, Grafana, an open-source technology for dashboards and data visualization. With over 3,000 customers, including major corporations like Bloomberg, Citigroup, and Salesforce, the company serves a global user base exceeding 20 million. Grafana Labs offers solutions that help organizations manage their observability strategies through its LGTM Stack, which can be deployed as a fully managed service via Grafana Cloud or as a self-managed option with Grafana Enterprise. Their offerings include scalable metrics management through Grafana Mimir, log aggregation with Grafana Loki, and distributed tracing via Grafana Tempo. These tools enable firms to unify data from various sources, enhancing their monitoring capabilities while avoiding vendor lock-in and high costs associated with proprietary solutions.

Goodfire's mission is to advance humanity's understanding of AI by examining the inner workings of advanced AI models (or “AI Interpretability”). As an applied research lab, Goodfire bridges the gap between theoretical science and practical applications of interpretability.

Contextual AI offers a pioneering approach to generative AI for the workplace.

Stable Money is a fixed-return investment platform that allows users to access fixed deposits, debt mutual funds, and bonds. It helps individuals grow their wealth over the long term by offering investment options that prioritize great returns with safety and stability.

Saronic is building cutting-edge unmanned surface vehicles that enable maritime security and domain awareness by combining hardware, software, and artificial intelligence into one scalable, fully integrated platform. These vehicles integrate advanced hardware, software, and artificial intelligence to create a scalable and fully integrated platform aimed at enhancing the capabilities of naval and maritime forces. Saronic's products are designed for defense and surveillance applications, offering comprehensive operational capabilities.

Arrcus, Inc. is a technology company based in San Jose, California, that specializes in developing closed-source operating systems for networking hardware, including switches and routers. Founded in 2016, Arrcus offers a suite of products designed to facilitate scalable infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Key offerings include ArcOS, a hardware-agnostic network operating system; ArcRR, a 64-bit route reflector; and ArcIQ, an analytics platform providing real-time insights for network management and troubleshooting. The company also features Arrcus VDR, an advanced routing platform, alongside solutions for IP/EVPN Clos and multi-cloud networking. Through its software, Arrcus aims to enhance connectivity among people, machines, and data, simplifying operations and management across complex network infrastructures.

Lemon.markets is a FinTech platform that provides a user-friendly API for stock trading, enabling developers to create and manage their own investment and trading tools. Its Trading API facilitates the execution of orders in the stock market and the retrieval of market data, making it easier for companies to launch investment products. With a focus on offering comprehensive brokerage infrastructure, Lemon.markets combines operational capabilities and regulatory expertise, positioning itself as a one-stop solution for businesses looking to integrate stock and ETF trading functionalities into their services.

Stability AI is an artificial intelligence startup focused on creating open AI tools for visual art and various media types, including images, video, 3D, and audio. The company specializes in developing AI models that convert text inputs into images and other media formats, leveraging collective intelligence and advanced technology. Stability AI also aims to address enterprise-level needs and promotes collaboration within a global community of experts and partners, fostering the development of innovative AI solutions. By prioritizing open models, the company supports a diverse range of applications and encourages participation in the evolution of artificial intelligence.

Zepto is an e-grocery company that specializes in the rapid delivery of daily essentials and grocery items directly to customers' doorsteps. Utilizing hyperlocal dark stores, Zepto stocks a variety of fresh produce, snack foods, and electronics, which can be conveniently ordered through its app or website. The company aims to provide a seamless online shopping experience, catering to the needs of customers seeking quick access to grocery products. By focusing on timely delivery, Zepto serves various sectors, including retail, food and beverage, and logistics.