Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm established in 1998 that focuses on investing in early-stage companies across a diverse range of sectors. The firm targets technology-led businesses as well as non-technology opportunities in areas such as advertising and media, healthcare, education, financial services, and retail. It engages in various investment stages, including seed, early-stage, later-stage, and expansion-stage financing. Lightspeed specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies while also exploring opportunities in consumer, enterprise, cleantech, and other markets. The firm is known for its strategic investments in innovative sectors, including big data, bitcoin, mobile technology, and software solutions.
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Vaibhav Agrawal
Associate Partner
Saqib Awan
Partner
Mercedes Bent
Partner
Akshay Bhushan
Partner
Guru Chahal
Partner
Yoni Cheifetz
Partner
Shelley Chu
Partner
James Ephrati
Partner
Gaurav Gupta
Partner
David Gussarsky
Partner
Galym Imanbayev
Partner
Nnamdi Iregbulem
Partner
Raviraj Jain
Partner
Arif Janmohamed
Partner
Ansaf Kareem
Partner
Dev Khare
Partner
Harsha Kumar
Associate Partner
Pinn Lawjindakul
Partner
Pachara Lawjindakul
Partner
Will Leas
Partner
Jeremy Liew
Partner
Jonathan MacQuitty
Venture Partner
Hemant Mohapatra
Partner
Andrew Moley
Operating Partner and CFO
Tal Morgenstern
Partner
Justin Overdorff
Partner
Nicole Quinn
General Partner
Christopher Schaepe
Co-Founder
Shan Shan
Partner
Shuvi Shrivastava
Partner
Adam Smith
Partner
Bejul Somaia
Partner
Rahul Taneja
Partner
Anoushka Vaswani
Partner
Rytis Vitkauskas
Partner
Jerry Ye
Partner, Data Platform
Connor Love
Partner
Peter Nieh
Partner and Co-Founder
John Thompson
Venture Partner
James Alcorn
Partner
Alex Taussig
Partner
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Spiff
Series C in 2023
Spiff Inc. is a software company that specializes in sales commission automation through its SaaS platform. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sandy, Utah, with an office in Mountain View, California, Spiff offers a comprehensive solution that allows organizations to design, manage, and optimize their sales commission plans. The platform enables users to create and modify commission structures, automate data integration from various systems such as ERP and payroll, and provide sales teams with personalized dashboards to track their performance. Spiff’s software streamlines complex commission processes, enhances accuracy by eliminating errors, and supports advanced features like modeling new plans and generating detailed payroll reports. The company primarily serves finance and sales operations, sales and marketing teams, managers, and executives, facilitating improved sales performance through real-time insights and automation.
One More Game
Series A in 2022
One More Game, Inc. is an online game development company founded in 2019 and based in Bellevue, Washington. The company focuses on designing and developing genre-defining online games, catering to home video consoles and smartphones. Its studio aims to create engaging interactive content that fosters social interactions among players and allows for rapid iterations in gameplay. Through its innovative approach, One More Game seeks to enhance the gaming experience and connect players in meaningful ways.
ezCater
Series D in 2021
ezCater, Inc. is an online catering marketplace that facilitates food ordering for both small startups and large corporations. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional office in Denver, the company connects businesses with local caterers and restaurants across the nation. ezCater offers a platform that allows users to easily find and order food for meetings and events, utilizing features that filter caterers by food type, budget, and other criteria. The company's solutions include ezManage, a catering management platform, and ezOrdering, which enables restaurants to accept catering orders directly through their websites. By streamlining the catering process, ezCater helps clients save time and efficiently select suitable catering options.
Matillion
Series E in 2021
Matillion Ltd. specializes in developing cloud data integration software solutions aimed at helping organizations optimize their data usage. The company offers a range of products, including Matillion ETL for Amazon Redshift and Snowflake, which facilitate the extraction, loading, and transformation of structured and semi-structured data in cloud environments. Additionally, Matillion Data Loader allows users to seamlessly integrate data from various sources into their cloud data warehouses. The Matillion Business Intelligence tool provides self-service reporting and analytics capabilities, while Matillion Exchange serves as a marketplace for users to share and download ETL jobs. Matillion's solutions cater to a diverse clientele, including Fortune 500 companies and mid-sized enterprises across the United Kingdom, the United States, and EMEA. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Manchester, the company also has offices in New York, Denver, and Seattle.
YourBase
Seed Round in 2021
YourBase, Inc. is a software development platform based in Redmond, Washington, founded in 2017. The company offers a solution aimed at accelerating software testing and development, particularly for large code bases. Its platform scans the code, records system calls, and builds a dependency graph to eliminate redundancies and streamline the workflow. By leveraging this data, YourBase enables clients to achieve safe incremental continuous integration builds, thereby enhancing the efficiency of their software development processes.
Spiff
Series B in 2021
Spiff Inc. is a software company that specializes in sales commission automation through its SaaS platform. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sandy, Utah, with an office in Mountain View, California, Spiff offers a comprehensive solution that allows organizations to design, manage, and optimize their sales commission plans. The platform enables users to create and modify commission structures, automate data integration from various systems such as ERP and payroll, and provide sales teams with personalized dashboards to track their performance. Spiff’s software streamlines complex commission processes, enhances accuracy by eliminating errors, and supports advanced features like modeling new plans and generating detailed payroll reports. The company primarily serves finance and sales operations, sales and marketing teams, managers, and executives, facilitating improved sales performance through real-time insights and automation.
Parting Stone
Seed Round in 2021
Parting Stone develops a new form of human and animal remains called solidified remains. It offers families choosing cremation as an alternative to conventional ash. Its service solidifies the full amount of remains into a collection of stone-like solids. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Matillion
Series D in 2021
Matillion Ltd. specializes in developing cloud data integration software solutions aimed at helping organizations optimize their data usage. The company offers a range of products, including Matillion ETL for Amazon Redshift and Snowflake, which facilitate the extraction, loading, and transformation of structured and semi-structured data in cloud environments. Additionally, Matillion Data Loader allows users to seamlessly integrate data from various sources into their cloud data warehouses. The Matillion Business Intelligence tool provides self-service reporting and analytics capabilities, while Matillion Exchange serves as a marketplace for users to share and download ETL jobs. Matillion's solutions cater to a diverse clientele, including Fortune 500 companies and mid-sized enterprises across the United Kingdom, the United States, and EMEA. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Manchester, the company also has offices in New York, Denver, and Seattle.
Weee!
Series B in 2020
Weee!, Inc. is an online grocery delivery platform based in Fremont, California, founded in 2015. The company specializes in providing a wide range of grocery items, focusing on products that cater to Asian and Hispanic communities, including fruits, vegetables, seafood, snacks, beauty products, and daily necessities. Weee! serves customers across several major regions, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York City, and New Jersey. The platform emphasizes sourcing authentic gourmet delicacies from Asia, working closely with local farms and trusted brands to curate fresh and affordable products for its users. Through its services, Weee! aims to facilitate a farm-to-door experience, making it a primary source for essential ingredients and meals for its diverse customer base.
Aurora
Series B in 2019
Aurora is a self-driving vehicle company providing a platform that brings software and data services to operate passenger vehicles. To move both people and goods, the company develops Aurora Driver, a platform that brings together software, hardware, and data services to operate passenger vehicles, light commercial vehicles, and heavy-duty trucks. Aurora is backed by Amazon and Sequoia, among others, and partners with industry leaders including Toyota, Uber, Volvo, and Paccar. Aurora tests its vehicles in the Bay Area, Pittsburgh, and Dallas. The company has offices in those areas as well as in Bozeman, MT; Seattle, WA; Louisville, CO; and Wixom, MI.
ezCater
Series D in 2019
ezCater, Inc. is an online catering marketplace that facilitates food ordering for both small startups and large corporations. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional office in Denver, the company connects businesses with local caterers and restaurants across the nation. ezCater offers a platform that allows users to easily find and order food for meetings and events, utilizing features that filter caterers by food type, budget, and other criteria. The company's solutions include ezManage, a catering management platform, and ezOrdering, which enables restaurants to accept catering orders directly through their websites. By streamlining the catering process, ezCater helps clients save time and efficiently select suitable catering options.
Grab
Series H in 2018
Grab Holdings Inc. is a prominent online-to-offline service provider based in Singapore, focusing on mobile technology solutions for transportation across Southeast Asia. Founded in 2012 by Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Lng, Grab integrates various transportation services through its platform, which includes offerings such as GrabTaxi, GrabCar, GrabHitch, GrabShare, GrabCoach, GrabShuttle, GrabShuttle Plus, GrabFamily, JustGrab, GrabNow, and GrabRental. The company operates in multiple countries, including Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar. In addition to its headquarters in Singapore, Grab has offices in Seattle, Beijing, Bangalore, Jakarta, and Vietnam, further extending its reach and capabilities within the region.
HomeShare
Seed Round in 2018
HomeShare (www.homeshare.com) is a co-living marketplace that enables affordable city living so that individuals can thrive together. The company matches housemates based on personality to ensure compatibility and peace of mind. Headquartered in San Francisco, HomeShare is active in 5 markets: San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Seattle and Los Angeles. HomeShare’s mission is to unlock cities by providing attractive yet affordable housing.
Arctic Wolf
Series B in 2018
Arctic Wolf Networks, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that provides security operations center-as-a-service to businesses, enabling them to manage and mitigate cyber risks effectively. The company offers a range of services, including cloud infrastructure monitoring, software-as-a-service application monitoring, vulnerability assessments, and account takeover risk detection. It also develops the Arctic Wolf Agent, a software tool that collects actionable intelligence from IT environments. Serving industries such as financial services, healthcare, and legal, Arctic Wolf employs a concierge security model, where its engineers work closely with clients to deliver tailored threat detection, response, and ongoing risk management. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, the company also has offices in Provo, Utah, and Waterloo, Canada.
Heptio
Series B in 2017
Heptio Inc. is a company based in Seattle, Washington, founded in 2016 by key contributors to the Kubernetes project. It specializes in making the Kubernetes open-source container management software accessible to enterprises, facilitating the automation of deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Heptio aims to bridge the gap between traditional enterprise IT and modern cloud-native computing, providing tools and technologies designed for the contemporary business environment. By supporting and advancing the Kubernetes ecosystem, Heptio helps organizations leverage Docker containers effectively, enabling them to build robust cloud-native architectures. As of December 2018, Heptio operates as a subsidiary of VMware, Inc.
Bonobos
Series D in 2014
Bonobos, Inc. is a men's clothing brand that specializes in providing a wide range of apparel including pants, shirts, suits, sweaters, outerwear, shoes, and accessories. Founded in 2007, Bonobos initially made a name for itself with its signature line of better-fitting men's pants, and has since grown to become the largest apparel brand established online in the United States. The company offers various categories of clothing such as washed chinos, dress shirts, and casual wear, as well as a selection of accessories like belts, socks, and watches. Bonobos has expanded its presence by launching Guideshops, which provide personalized shopping experiences, and by partnering with major retailers like Nordstrom to increase its distribution. The brand is recognized for its commitment to delivering excellent fit and customer service, contributing to its reputation as a prominent name in menswear. Bonobos operates primarily online, with a physical store located in Seattle and a headquarters in New York City.
Primary Data
Series B in 2014
Primary Data, founded in 2013 and based in Sandy, Utah, specializes in intelligence and automation software for enterprise data management, facilitating seamless integration between on-premises IT infrastructure and cloud environments. The company's flagship platform, DataSphere, utilizes metadata management and machine learning to optimize data movement within a global namespace. It enables organizations managing large data volumes to efficiently handle billions of files, automate data migration processes, and improve cloud integration while enhancing network-attached storage (NAS) performance. By ensuring that the right data is accessible to the right applications at the right time, Primary Data helps enterprises maximize the value of their infrastructure investments.
Primary Data
Series B in 2013
Primary Data, founded in 2013 and based in Sandy, Utah, specializes in intelligence and automation software for enterprise data management, facilitating seamless integration between on-premises IT infrastructure and cloud environments. The company's flagship platform, DataSphere, utilizes metadata management and machine learning to optimize data movement within a global namespace. It enables organizations managing large data volumes to efficiently handle billions of files, automate data migration processes, and improve cloud integration while enhancing network-attached storage (NAS) performance. By ensuring that the right data is accessible to the right applications at the right time, Primary Data helps enterprises maximize the value of their infrastructure investments.
Bonobos
Venture Round in 2013
Bonobos, Inc. is a men's clothing brand that specializes in providing a wide range of apparel including pants, shirts, suits, sweaters, outerwear, shoes, and accessories. Founded in 2007, Bonobos initially made a name for itself with its signature line of better-fitting men's pants, and has since grown to become the largest apparel brand established online in the United States. The company offers various categories of clothing such as washed chinos, dress shirts, and casual wear, as well as a selection of accessories like belts, socks, and watches. Bonobos has expanded its presence by launching Guideshops, which provide personalized shopping experiences, and by partnering with major retailers like Nordstrom to increase its distribution. The brand is recognized for its commitment to delivering excellent fit and customer service, contributing to its reputation as a prominent name in menswear. Bonobos operates primarily online, with a physical store located in Seattle and a headquarters in New York City.
Arctic Wolf
Venture Round in 2012
Arctic Wolf Networks, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that provides security operations center-as-a-service to businesses, enabling them to manage and mitigate cyber risks effectively. The company offers a range of services, including cloud infrastructure monitoring, software-as-a-service application monitoring, vulnerability assessments, and account takeover risk detection. It also develops the Arctic Wolf Agent, a software tool that collects actionable intelligence from IT environments. Serving industries such as financial services, healthcare, and legal, Arctic Wolf employs a concierge security model, where its engineers work closely with clients to deliver tailored threat detection, response, and ongoing risk management. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, the company also has offices in Provo, Utah, and Waterloo, Canada.
Arctic Wolf
Series A in 2012
Arctic Wolf Networks, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that provides security operations center-as-a-service to businesses, enabling them to manage and mitigate cyber risks effectively. The company offers a range of services, including cloud infrastructure monitoring, software-as-a-service application monitoring, vulnerability assessments, and account takeover risk detection. It also develops the Arctic Wolf Agent, a software tool that collects actionable intelligence from IT environments. Serving industries such as financial services, healthcare, and legal, Arctic Wolf employs a concierge security model, where its engineers work closely with clients to deliver tailored threat detection, response, and ongoing risk management. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, the company also has offices in Provo, Utah, and Waterloo, Canada.
Bonobos
Venture Round in 2012
Bonobos, Inc. is a men's clothing brand that specializes in providing a wide range of apparel including pants, shirts, suits, sweaters, outerwear, shoes, and accessories. Founded in 2007, Bonobos initially made a name for itself with its signature line of better-fitting men's pants, and has since grown to become the largest apparel brand established online in the United States. The company offers various categories of clothing such as washed chinos, dress shirts, and casual wear, as well as a selection of accessories like belts, socks, and watches. Bonobos has expanded its presence by launching Guideshops, which provide personalized shopping experiences, and by partnering with major retailers like Nordstrom to increase its distribution. The brand is recognized for its commitment to delivering excellent fit and customer service, contributing to its reputation as a prominent name in menswear. Bonobos operates primarily online, with a physical store located in Seattle and a headquarters in New York City.
Bonobos
Series B in 2010
Bonobos, Inc. is a men's clothing brand that specializes in providing a wide range of apparel including pants, shirts, suits, sweaters, outerwear, shoes, and accessories. Founded in 2007, Bonobos initially made a name for itself with its signature line of better-fitting men's pants, and has since grown to become the largest apparel brand established online in the United States. The company offers various categories of clothing such as washed chinos, dress shirts, and casual wear, as well as a selection of accessories like belts, socks, and watches. Bonobos has expanded its presence by launching Guideshops, which provide personalized shopping experiences, and by partnering with major retailers like Nordstrom to increase its distribution. The brand is recognized for its commitment to delivering excellent fit and customer service, contributing to its reputation as a prominent name in menswear. Bonobos operates primarily online, with a physical store located in Seattle and a headquarters in New York City.
Avamar Technologies
Venture Round in 2004
Avamar Technologies develops enterprise data protection software solutions for corporations, medium to large-sized businesses, and multinational enterprises. The company offers Axion, a disk backup and recovery solution that allows corporations to move, store, and leverage data on a server. It also provides business continuity and disaster recovery, data security and encryption, remote office protection, and legal discovery and support for regulatory compliance solutions. The company, formerly known as Undoo.com, was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Irvine, California with sales offices in San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Dallas, Denver, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, and New York.
Avamar Technologies
Series C in 2002
Avamar Technologies develops enterprise data protection software solutions for corporations, medium to large-sized businesses, and multinational enterprises. The company offers Axion, a disk backup and recovery solution that allows corporations to move, store, and leverage data on a server. It also provides business continuity and disaster recovery, data security and encryption, remote office protection, and legal discovery and support for regulatory compliance solutions. The company, formerly known as Undoo.com, was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Irvine, California with sales offices in San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Dallas, Denver, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, and New York.
Blue Nile
Series C in 2001
Blue Nile, Inc. is an online retailer specializing in diamonds and fine jewelry, catering to customers worldwide. The company offers a wide range of products, including engagement rings, wedding bands, earrings, necklaces, pendants, bracelets, and various accessories crafted from precious metals, diamonds, gemstones, and pearls. Blue Nile distinguishes itself by providing extensive educational resources and innovative online tools that empower consumers in their jewelry shopping experience. The company maintains high quality standards, offering thousands of independently graded, conflict-free diamonds at competitive prices compared to traditional retail options. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Blue Nile was initially known as Internet Diamonds, Inc. before adopting its current name in November 1999.
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