Lightspeed Venture Partners

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.

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

Past deals in Database

Tessell

Series B in 2025
Tessell, founded in 2021 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with a significant presence in Bangalore, is a rapidly growing Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) company. It offers a comprehensive data infrastructure and management platform designed for both cloud-born and cloud-defining enterprises. Tessell provides a fully managed service supporting various data technologies, including Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server, across major cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. The company has secured Series A funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners to enhance its global reach and deliver a user-friendly experience for enterprise-level services. Tessell's innovative technology features a zero-data loss Availability Machine that safeguards data, ensures regional availability, and offers time-travel capabilities for data cloning. The platform emphasizes a seamless data consumption experience for developers and data owners while maintaining robust enterprise-grade governance and deployment models.

QueryPal

Seed Round in 2022
QueryPal is an innovative company that enhances enterprise customer support by utilizing historical support tickets to create an intelligent deflection system capable of managing most incoming inquiries via chat and email without human intervention. Unlike traditional AI chatbots that only retrieve information from documentation, QueryPal's Agentic Support AI constructs a comprehensive knowledge graph from past support data, facilitating tier 1-3 support capabilities, including complex API interactions with record systems. Its visual analytics dashboard provides customer service leaders with critical insights into support operations, demonstrating significant return on investment shortly after implementation. Trusted by notable organizations, QueryPal aims to transform the $300 billion global customer support market by converting cost centers into strategic assets without increasing workforce size. The company has received recognition in various publications, highlighting its potential to disrupt the industry.

Tessell

Series A in 2022
Tessell, founded in 2021 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with a significant presence in Bangalore, is a rapidly growing Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) company. It offers a comprehensive data infrastructure and management platform designed for both cloud-born and cloud-defining enterprises. Tessell provides a fully managed service supporting various data technologies, including Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server, across major cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. The company has secured Series A funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners to enhance its global reach and deliver a user-friendly experience for enterprise-level services. Tessell's innovative technology features a zero-data loss Availability Machine that safeguards data, ensures regional availability, and offers time-travel capabilities for data cloning. The platform emphasizes a seamless data consumption experience for developers and data owners while maintaining robust enterprise-grade governance and deployment models.

Supabase

Series B in 2022
Supabase Pte. Ltd. is a company that provides an open-source alternative to Firebase, designed to enhance PostgreSQL databases with real-time and RESTful APIs without requiring extensive coding. Founded in 2020 and based in Singapore, Supabase offers a suite of tools to assist developers, including a Postgres database with self-documenting APIs, user authentication, instant APIs, Edge Functions, real-time subscriptions, and storage solutions. The platform enables users to manage database changes, perform queries with filtering and pagination, and handle user permissions through an intuitive interface. By focusing on simplifying database management and enhancing scalability, Supabase allows developers to concentrate on building their core products efficiently.

ClickHouse

Series B in 2021
ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented database management system specifically designed for online analytical processing (OLAP). It enables users to generate real-time analytical reports through SQL queries, leveraging its unique architecture that offers compact storage and enhanced processing performance. The column-oriented design minimizes redundant data, optimizing CPU efficiency and contributing to ClickHouse's remarkable speed. The system is capable of handling extensive datasets efficiently, processing large volumes of rows and gigabytes of data swiftly while maintaining reduced storage requirements. This makes ClickHouse a reliable, scalable solution for enterprises seeking to streamline their data processing and improve query performance for analytical purposes.

Yugabyte

Series C in 2021
Yugabyte, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source cloud-native database software designed for internet-scale applications. The company's flagship product, YugabyteDB, is a high-performance distributed SQL database that supports global applications, accommodating both scale-out relational database management system (RDBMS) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads. YugabyteDB features a combination of advanced capabilities, including automatic sharding, distributed consensus replication, and multi-shard ACID transactions, drawing inspiration from Google's Spanner. Yugabyte offers various deployment options, including Yugabyte Platform, a self-managed database-as-a-service, and Yugabyte Cloud, a fully-managed service available on major cloud platforms. The company also provides two editions of its software: the open-source YugaByte Community Edition for individual users and the YugaByte Enterprise Edition for corporate clients. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Yugabyte aims to deliver a resilient and scalable database solution for modern applications.

Materialize

Series C in 2021
Materialize Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a streaming SQL database platform designed to facilitate the management and analysis of streaming data. Founded in 2019 and based in New York, the platform enables users to create materialized views that provide low-latency results, even as the underlying data changes. This functionality allows developers and data scientists to easily ask complex questions, build intelligent applications, and develop internal tools and interactive dashboards. Materialize's approach focuses on simplifying the process of working with real-time data, ensuring that query results are continuously updated as new information becomes available.

Yugabyte

Series B in 2021
Yugabyte, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source cloud-native database software designed for internet-scale applications. The company's flagship product, YugabyteDB, is a high-performance distributed SQL database that supports global applications, accommodating both scale-out relational database management system (RDBMS) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads. YugabyteDB features a combination of advanced capabilities, including automatic sharding, distributed consensus replication, and multi-shard ACID transactions, drawing inspiration from Google's Spanner. Yugabyte offers various deployment options, including Yugabyte Platform, a self-managed database-as-a-service, and Yugabyte Cloud, a fully-managed service available on major cloud platforms. The company also provides two editions of its software: the open-source YugaByte Community Edition for individual users and the YugaByte Enterprise Edition for corporate clients. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Yugabyte aims to deliver a resilient and scalable database solution for modern applications.

Materialize

Series B in 2020
Materialize Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a streaming SQL database platform designed to facilitate the management and analysis of streaming data. Founded in 2019 and based in New York, the platform enables users to create materialized views that provide low-latency results, even as the underlying data changes. This functionality allows developers and data scientists to easily ask complex questions, build intelligent applications, and develop internal tools and interactive dashboards. Materialize's approach focuses on simplifying the process of working with real-time data, ensuring that query results are continuously updated as new information becomes available.

Varada

Series A in 2020
Varada enables data architects to seamlessly accelerate and optimize workloads, using dynamic analysis and adaptive indexing, resulting in optimal control over performance and cost. Varada’s data platform runs in your cloud environment, enabling any SQL consumer to easily query any data source. The company was founded by David Krakov, Roman Vainbrand, and Tal Ben-Moshe. Varada is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Yugabyte

Series B in 2020
Yugabyte, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source cloud-native database software designed for internet-scale applications. The company's flagship product, YugabyteDB, is a high-performance distributed SQL database that supports global applications, accommodating both scale-out relational database management system (RDBMS) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads. YugabyteDB features a combination of advanced capabilities, including automatic sharding, distributed consensus replication, and multi-shard ACID transactions, drawing inspiration from Google's Spanner. Yugabyte offers various deployment options, including Yugabyte Platform, a self-managed database-as-a-service, and Yugabyte Cloud, a fully-managed service available on major cloud platforms. The company also provides two editions of its software: the open-source YugaByte Community Edition for individual users and the YugaByte Enterprise Edition for corporate clients. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Yugabyte aims to deliver a resilient and scalable database solution for modern applications.

M3O

Seed Round in 2019
M3O is a community-led cloud platform that provides app deployment, cloud storage, and a postgres database. They offer serverless lambda functions, event stream processing, and user account management. It supports multiple regions and provides a custom HTTPS URL. To generate a new access token, go to the API Tokens page. They can specify which APIs the token can call, or they can leave the scopes blank to create a token that can call all APIs.

Materialize

Series A in 2019
Materialize Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a streaming SQL database platform designed to facilitate the management and analysis of streaming data. Founded in 2019 and based in New York, the platform enables users to create materialized views that provide low-latency results, even as the underlying data changes. This functionality allows developers and data scientists to easily ask complex questions, build intelligent applications, and develop internal tools and interactive dashboards. Materialize's approach focuses on simplifying the process of working with real-time data, ensuring that query results are continuously updated as new information becomes available.

Varada

Seed Round in 2019
Varada enables data architects to seamlessly accelerate and optimize workloads, using dynamic analysis and adaptive indexing, resulting in optimal control over performance and cost. Varada’s data platform runs in your cloud environment, enabling any SQL consumer to easily query any data source. The company was founded by David Krakov, Roman Vainbrand, and Tal Ben-Moshe. Varada is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Rubrik

Series E in 2019
Rubrik offers live data access for recovery and application development by fusing enterprise data management with web-scale IT and eliminating backup software. This marks the end of a decade-long innovation drought in backup and recovery, the backbone of IT. Within minutes, businesses can manage the explosion of data across private and public clouds.

Yugabyte

Series A in 2018
Yugabyte, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source cloud-native database software designed for internet-scale applications. The company's flagship product, YugabyteDB, is a high-performance distributed SQL database that supports global applications, accommodating both scale-out relational database management system (RDBMS) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads. YugabyteDB features a combination of advanced capabilities, including automatic sharding, distributed consensus replication, and multi-shard ACID transactions, drawing inspiration from Google's Spanner. Yugabyte offers various deployment options, including Yugabyte Platform, a self-managed database-as-a-service, and Yugabyte Cloud, a fully-managed service available on major cloud platforms. The company also provides two editions of its software: the open-source YugaByte Community Edition for individual users and the YugaByte Enterprise Edition for corporate clients. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Yugabyte aims to deliver a resilient and scalable database solution for modern applications.

Rubrik

Series D in 2017
Rubrik offers live data access for recovery and application development by fusing enterprise data management with web-scale IT and eliminating backup software. This marks the end of a decade-long innovation drought in backup and recovery, the backbone of IT. Within minutes, businesses can manage the explosion of data across private and public clouds.

Rubrik

Series C in 2016
Rubrik offers live data access for recovery and application development by fusing enterprise data management with web-scale IT and eliminating backup software. This marks the end of a decade-long innovation drought in backup and recovery, the backbone of IT. Within minutes, businesses can manage the explosion of data across private and public clouds.

Yugabyte

Series A in 2016
Yugabyte, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source cloud-native database software designed for internet-scale applications. The company's flagship product, YugabyteDB, is a high-performance distributed SQL database that supports global applications, accommodating both scale-out relational database management system (RDBMS) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads. YugabyteDB features a combination of advanced capabilities, including automatic sharding, distributed consensus replication, and multi-shard ACID transactions, drawing inspiration from Google's Spanner. Yugabyte offers various deployment options, including Yugabyte Platform, a self-managed database-as-a-service, and Yugabyte Cloud, a fully-managed service available on major cloud platforms. The company also provides two editions of its software: the open-source YugaByte Community Edition for individual users and the YugaByte Enterprise Edition for corporate clients. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Yugabyte aims to deliver a resilient and scalable database solution for modern applications.

Delphix

Series D in 2015
Delphix offers an intelligent data platform designed to facilitate digital transformation for enterprises globally. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, the company specializes in test data management software that supports a wide range of systems, including mainframes, Oracle databases, ERP applications, and Kubernetes containers. Its DataOps platform enhances cloud migrations, custom development, and ERP rollouts by enabling agile data management. Delphix's technology aims to eliminate redundant infrastructure and streamline slow processes across various industries, including financial services, telecommunications, consumer packaged goods, e-commerce, and manufacturing, thus allowing businesses to visualize and deliver data effectively across major databases and data warehouses.

Rubrik

Series B in 2015
Rubrik offers live data access for recovery and application development by fusing enterprise data management with web-scale IT and eliminating backup software. This marks the end of a decade-long innovation drought in backup and recovery, the backbone of IT. Within minutes, businesses can manage the explosion of data across private and public clouds.

Rubrik

Series A in 2015
Rubrik offers live data access for recovery and application development by fusing enterprise data management with web-scale IT and eliminating backup software. This marks the end of a decade-long innovation drought in backup and recovery, the backbone of IT. Within minutes, businesses can manage the explosion of data across private and public clouds.

DataStax

Series E in 2014
DataStax, Inc. specializes in providing database software for cloud applications, catering to Fortune 100 companies globally. Its flagship product, DataStax Enterprise, is built on Apache Cassandra and designed for online applications requiring high performance and reliability. The company also offers various tools, including DataStax OpsCenter for database management, K8ssandra for deploying Cassandra on Kubernetes, and DataStax DevCenter for developing CQL queries. DataStax Astra is a database-as-a-service that significantly accelerates deployment times, while DataStax Constellation functions as a cloud data platform to streamline modern application development. Additionally, DataStax provides training, support, and consulting services to enterprises and government agencies. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, DataStax has a global presence with offices in multiple countries, including the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Germany, Australia, and Ireland. The company has also ventured into tools for building generative AI applications, offering a vector database with real-time data processing capabilities.

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.

DataStax

Series D in 2013
DataStax, Inc. specializes in providing database software for cloud applications, catering to Fortune 100 companies globally. Its flagship product, DataStax Enterprise, is built on Apache Cassandra and designed for online applications requiring high performance and reliability. The company also offers various tools, including DataStax OpsCenter for database management, K8ssandra for deploying Cassandra on Kubernetes, and DataStax DevCenter for developing CQL queries. DataStax Astra is a database-as-a-service that significantly accelerates deployment times, while DataStax Constellation functions as a cloud data platform to streamline modern application development. Additionally, DataStax provides training, support, and consulting services to enterprises and government agencies. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, DataStax has a global presence with offices in multiple countries, including the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Germany, Australia, and Ireland. The company has also ventured into tools for building generative AI applications, offering a vector database with real-time data processing capabilities.

DataStax

Series C in 2012
DataStax, Inc. specializes in providing database software for cloud applications, catering to Fortune 100 companies globally. Its flagship product, DataStax Enterprise, is built on Apache Cassandra and designed for online applications requiring high performance and reliability. The company also offers various tools, including DataStax OpsCenter for database management, K8ssandra for deploying Cassandra on Kubernetes, and DataStax DevCenter for developing CQL queries. DataStax Astra is a database-as-a-service that significantly accelerates deployment times, while DataStax Constellation functions as a cloud data platform to streamline modern application development. Additionally, DataStax provides training, support, and consulting services to enterprises and government agencies. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, DataStax has a global presence with offices in multiple countries, including the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Germany, Australia, and Ireland. The company has also ventured into tools for building generative AI applications, offering a vector database with real-time data processing capabilities.

Delphix

Series C in 2012
Delphix offers an intelligent data platform designed to facilitate digital transformation for enterprises globally. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, the company specializes in test data management software that supports a wide range of systems, including mainframes, Oracle databases, ERP applications, and Kubernetes containers. Its DataOps platform enhances cloud migrations, custom development, and ERP rollouts by enabling agile data management. Delphix's technology aims to eliminate redundant infrastructure and streamline slow processes across various industries, including financial services, telecommunications, consumer packaged goods, e-commerce, and manufacturing, thus allowing businesses to visualize and deliver data effectively across major databases and data warehouses.

DataStax

Series B in 2011
DataStax, Inc. specializes in providing database software for cloud applications, catering to Fortune 100 companies globally. Its flagship product, DataStax Enterprise, is built on Apache Cassandra and designed for online applications requiring high performance and reliability. The company also offers various tools, including DataStax OpsCenter for database management, K8ssandra for deploying Cassandra on Kubernetes, and DataStax DevCenter for developing CQL queries. DataStax Astra is a database-as-a-service that significantly accelerates deployment times, while DataStax Constellation functions as a cloud data platform to streamline modern application development. Additionally, DataStax provides training, support, and consulting services to enterprises and government agencies. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, DataStax has a global presence with offices in multiple countries, including the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Germany, Australia, and Ireland. The company has also ventured into tools for building generative AI applications, offering a vector database with real-time data processing capabilities.

DataStax

Series A in 2010
DataStax, Inc. specializes in providing database software for cloud applications, catering to Fortune 100 companies globally. Its flagship product, DataStax Enterprise, is built on Apache Cassandra and designed for online applications requiring high performance and reliability. The company also offers various tools, including DataStax OpsCenter for database management, K8ssandra for deploying Cassandra on Kubernetes, and DataStax DevCenter for developing CQL queries. DataStax Astra is a database-as-a-service that significantly accelerates deployment times, while DataStax Constellation functions as a cloud data platform to streamline modern application development. Additionally, DataStax provides training, support, and consulting services to enterprises and government agencies. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, DataStax has a global presence with offices in multiple countries, including the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Germany, Australia, and Ireland. The company has also ventured into tools for building generative AI applications, offering a vector database with real-time data processing capabilities.

Delphix

Series B in 2010
Delphix offers an intelligent data platform designed to facilitate digital transformation for enterprises globally. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, the company specializes in test data management software that supports a wide range of systems, including mainframes, Oracle databases, ERP applications, and Kubernetes containers. Its DataOps platform enhances cloud migrations, custom development, and ERP rollouts by enabling agile data management. Delphix's technology aims to eliminate redundant infrastructure and streamline slow processes across various industries, including financial services, telecommunications, consumer packaged goods, e-commerce, and manufacturing, thus allowing businesses to visualize and deliver data effectively across major databases and data warehouses.

Delphix

Series A in 2009
Delphix offers an intelligent data platform designed to facilitate digital transformation for enterprises globally. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, the company specializes in test data management software that supports a wide range of systems, including mainframes, Oracle databases, ERP applications, and Kubernetes containers. Its DataOps platform enhances cloud migrations, custom development, and ERP rollouts by enabling agile data management. Delphix's technology aims to eliminate redundant infrastructure and streamline slow processes across various industries, including financial services, telecommunications, consumer packaged goods, e-commerce, and manufacturing, thus allowing businesses to visualize and deliver data effectively across major databases and data warehouses.

ClickHouse

ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented database management system specifically designed for online analytical processing (OLAP). It enables users to generate real-time analytical reports through SQL queries, leveraging its unique architecture that offers compact storage and enhanced processing performance. The column-oriented design minimizes redundant data, optimizing CPU efficiency and contributing to ClickHouse's remarkable speed. The system is capable of handling extensive datasets efficiently, processing large volumes of rows and gigabytes of data swiftly while maintaining reduced storage requirements. This makes ClickHouse a reliable, scalable solution for enterprises seeking to streamline their data processing and improve query performance for analytical purposes.
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