Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm that backs startups across enterprise software, consumer technologies, fintech, healthtech, and cleantech from seed through growth stages. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, it maintains offices in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Herzliya to engage markets in the United States, Asia, and Israel. The firm focuses on technology-enabled businesses and has supported companies across software, mobile, data, e-commerce, and services, spanning early-stage to expansion rounds. It offers strategic guidance, network access, and capital, and has historically included debt financing as part of its investment approach. With a multi-region footprint and a broad multi-stage mandate, Lightspeed seeks to partner with entrepreneurs to scale innovative companies globally.

Shaurya Aggarwal

Partner

Vaibhav Agrawal

Associate Partner

James Alcorn

Partner

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner and Head of Gaming

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Past deals in Email

beehiiv

Series B in 2024
Beehiiv operates an email newsletter platform designed for creators. It facilitates the production, monetization, and expansion of newsletters while enhancing audience engagement and growth. The platform's direct engagement model reduces reliance on cookie-based data.

beehiiv

Series A in 2023
Beehiiv operates an email newsletter platform designed for creators. It facilitates the production, monetization, and expansion of newsletters while enhancing audience engagement and growth. The platform's direct engagement model reduces reliance on cookie-based data.

Shortwave

Series A in 2020
Shortwave is developing a business communication platform that makes email collaborative and efficient. It aims to tilt the scales back toward email and federation by offering an inbox that helps users work smarter and faster, with agentic AI, automatic inbox tools, and a notification-controlling system to keep teams organized, productive, and responsive. The platform emphasizes decentralization and security, providing a high-quality alternative to centralized messaging apps. The team has experience building widely used products at Google, including work associated with Firebase.
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