Lightspeed Israel

Lightspeed Israel, established in 2006, is a venture capital firm based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It invests in seed, early, and later-stage companies across the information technology and TMT sectors. The firm focuses on supporting innovative Israeli startups, providing capital and strategic guidance to accelerate their growth. Lightspeed Israel typically invests between $2 million to $25 million per company, with a particular interest in enterprise, health, fintech, and consumer sectors. It manages multiple funds, including Lightspeed Venture Partners IX and Lightspeed India Partners I & II, to support its investment activities in Israel and India.

Shaurya Aggarwal

Partner

Vaibhav Agrawal

Venture Partner

James Alcorn

Partner

Saqib Awan

Partner

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner and Head of Gaming

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Luke Beseda

Partner

Akshay Bhushan

Partner

Taggart Bonham

Partner

Guru Chahal

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Sun Daniel

Partner

Amish Desai

Partner

Sebastian Duesterhoeft

Partner

Barry Eggers

Co-Founder and Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

James Ephrati

Partner

Faraz Fatemi

Partner, Consumer

Jack Fowler

Partner

Aaron Frank

Venture Partner

Merci Grace

Partner

Globin Guo

Executive Director

Gaurav Gupta

Partner

David Gussarsky

Partner

Herry Han

Co-Founder and Partner

Lisa Han

Partner

Rob Horton JD

COO

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Galym Imanbayev MD

Partner

Nnamdi Iregbulem

Partner

Raviraj Jain

Partner

Arif Janmohamed

Partner

Julie Kainz

Partner

Francis Kao

Partner

Ansaf Kareem

Partner

Alex Kayyal

Partner

Dev Khare

Partner

Issac Kim

Partner

Will Kohler

Partner

Harsha Kumar

Associate Partner

Pinn Lawjindakul

Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Will Leas

Partner

Jeremy Liew

Partner

Connor Love

Partner

John Luongo

Venture Partner

Natalie Luu

Partner

Naveed Matinfar

Partner

Ravi Mhatre

Co-Founder and Partner

James Mi

Founding Partner

Andrew Moley

Operating Partner and CFO

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Peter Nieh

Co-Founder and Partner, Enterprise

Justin Overdorff

Partner

Zac Pan

Associate Partner

Apoorva Pandhi

Associate

Krish Parikh

Partner of Business Services

Nicole Quinn

Partner

Adrian Nicholas Radu

Partner

Alexander Schmitt

Partner

Shan Shan

Partner

Justin Shen

Partner

Justin Shen

Partner

Shuvi Shrivastava

Partner

Ishaan Preet Singh

Investor

Ajay Sudan

Venture Partner

Sydney Sykes

Partner

Rahul Taneja

Partner

Alex Taussig

Partner

John Thompson

Venture Partner

Anoushka Vaswani

Partner

Jason Wang

Partner

Nathan Wang

Vice President

Nathan Wu

Partner, Growth

Mark Xu

Partner

Cici Yang

Vice President

Jerry Ye

Partner, Data Platform

Haowei Zhai

Vice President

Issac Zhang

Vice President

Ju Zhang

Executive Director

Gavin Zhu

Partner

Hu Peipei

Investment Manager

Past deals in FMCG

Udaan

Series G in 2025
Udaan is a B2B e-commerce platform based in India that connects businesses with suppliers across various sectors, including FMCG, pharmaceuticals, and staples. It aims to address core trade challenges faced by small, medium, and large enterprises by providing a centralized platform for buying and selling goods. Udaan facilitates direct connections between clients, allowing them to negotiate better deals while ensuring secure payment processes and efficient logistics. The platform also supports small businesses by offering financial products tailored to their needs, thereby enhancing their operational capabilities and market reach.

Udaan

Series E in 2023
Udaan is a B2B e-commerce platform based in India that connects businesses with suppliers across various sectors, including FMCG, pharmaceuticals, and staples. It aims to address core trade challenges faced by small, medium, and large enterprises by providing a centralized platform for buying and selling goods. Udaan facilitates direct connections between clients, allowing them to negotiate better deals while ensuring secure payment processes and efficient logistics. The platform also supports small businesses by offering financial products tailored to their needs, thereby enhancing their operational capabilities and market reach.

GlobalFair

Series A in 2022
GlobalFair is a B2B technology platform designed to streamline the procurement of building materials such as countertops, cabinets, natural stones, tiles, and vinyl flooring. It connects businesses globally to quality goods at competitive prices, offering a comprehensive suite of services that includes sourcing, organized production, price negotiation, quality inspection, technical evaluation, and cost-effective shipping. The platform enables users to place orders and track deliveries in real-time, facilitating inter-country sourcing as seamlessly as intra-country trade. By simplifying the procurement process, GlobalFair enhances reliability and efficiency for its clients.

Cosmart

Seed Round in 2022
Cosmart is a technology-driven e-commerce platform based in Kembangan Selatan, Jakarta, that focuses on providing a diverse selection of household products. Founded in 2022, the company operates on a membership model, allowing customers to purchase items in bulk at reduced prices. By leveraging technology and data, Cosmart aims to streamline the shopping experience, helping users save time and money on their recurring expenditures. The platform is designed to alleviate the mental burden associated with regular purchasing, offering a convenient solution for consumers looking to manage their household needs efficiently.

Frubana

Series C in 2021
Frubana is a digital platform based in Bogotá, Colombia, founded in 2018, that serves as a one-stop shop for restaurants by connecting them directly with agricultural producers and suppliers. The company facilitates the buying and selling of food products, enabling restaurants to source ingredients directly from farmers without intermediaries, which enhances price transparency and reduces trade barriers. Additionally, Frubana provides tools for restaurants to digitize their operations, including the creation of virtual menus that can be easily shared with customers through QR codes. By streamlining the supply chain, Frubana aims to support small retailers and restaurants in accessing fresh agricultural products efficiently.

Frubana

Series B in 2021
Frubana is a digital platform based in Bogotá, Colombia, founded in 2018, that serves as a one-stop shop for restaurants by connecting them directly with agricultural producers and suppliers. The company facilitates the buying and selling of food products, enabling restaurants to source ingredients directly from farmers without intermediaries, which enhances price transparency and reduces trade barriers. Additionally, Frubana provides tools for restaurants to digitize their operations, including the creation of virtual menus that can be easily shared with customers through QR codes. By streamlining the supply chain, Frubana aims to support small retailers and restaurants in accessing fresh agricultural products efficiently.

Udaan

Series D in 2021
Udaan is a B2B e-commerce platform based in India that connects businesses with suppliers across various sectors, including FMCG, pharmaceuticals, and staples. It aims to address core trade challenges faced by small, medium, and large enterprises by providing a centralized platform for buying and selling goods. Udaan facilitates direct connections between clients, allowing them to negotiate better deals while ensuring secure payment processes and efficient logistics. The platform also supports small businesses by offering financial products tailored to their needs, thereby enhancing their operational capabilities and market reach.

FreshMenu

Venture Round in 2020
FreshMenu is an online food delivery service that specializes in providing a variety of fresh and flavorful meal packages. The platform caters to diverse culinary preferences, offering cuisines such as Indian, Chinese, Italian, American, Mexican, and Thai. Customers can conveniently place orders for lunch and dinner through the website or mobile application. FreshMenu operates in several areas, including Koramangala, Richmond Town, Indiranagar, and Whitefield, among others, ensuring a wide reach for its services. The focus is on delivering tasty and healthy food options to meet the needs of busy consumers.

Freewill

Seed Round in 2019
Freewill is a beauty company that specializes in personalized hair care products. It creates and custom hair products based on each individual’s unique requirements, lifestyle, and environmental conditions. Its system analyzes the response and creates a product that has the power to solve hair problems and fulfill all hair goals. Its proprietary algorithm analyzes over 1.7 billion formulations to create exclusive, custom-made formulas for each user from up to 68 high-impact ingredients. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Jaipur, India.

Udaan

Series D in 2019
Udaan is a B2B e-commerce platform based in India that connects businesses with suppliers across various sectors, including FMCG, pharmaceuticals, and staples. It aims to address core trade challenges faced by small, medium, and large enterprises by providing a centralized platform for buying and selling goods. Udaan facilitates direct connections between clients, allowing them to negotiate better deals while ensuring secure payment processes and efficient logistics. The platform also supports small businesses by offering financial products tailored to their needs, thereby enhancing their operational capabilities and market reach.

Magic Spoon

Seed Round in 2019
Magic Spoon Inc. is a food company that specializes in producing and selling low-carbohydrate, keto-friendly cereals targeted towards adult consumers. Established in 2019 and based in Brooklyn, New York, Magic Spoon offers a variety of flavors including fruity, cinnamon, cocoa, and frosted. The cereals are designed to be nutritious, incorporating ingredients such as protein while avoiding gluten, grain, wheat, soy, and artificial sweeteners. Instead, they utilize natural sweeteners like allulose, which has no glycemic impact, along with stevia and monk fruit. The company primarily sells its products online, catering to health-conscious individuals seeking a convenient and enjoyable breakfast option.

FreshMenu

Venture Round in 2019
FreshMenu is an online food delivery service that specializes in providing a variety of fresh and flavorful meal packages. The platform caters to diverse culinary preferences, offering cuisines such as Indian, Chinese, Italian, American, Mexican, and Thai. Customers can conveniently place orders for lunch and dinner through the website or mobile application. FreshMenu operates in several areas, including Koramangala, Richmond Town, Indiranagar, and Whitefield, among others, ensuring a wide reach for its services. The focus is on delivering tasty and healthy food options to meet the needs of busy consumers.

Brandable

Series B in 2019
Brandable, Inc. is a consumer packaged goods company founded in 2017 and based in Beverly Hills, California. It specializes in brand building services, including influencer acquisition and brand management, primarily in the toys, wellness, and food and drink sectors. Brandable creates, manufactures, and sells modern consumer-focused brands, emerging as a key supplier for major retailers in North America, including Walmart and Target. The company is recognized for its innovative approach to launching new consumer product brands, leveraging influencer-driven, omni-channel demand creation techniques. Through its diverse product offerings, which include items in feminine hygiene, Brandable aims to establish relevant and impactful brands in the market.

FreshMenu

Series B in 2019
FreshMenu is an online food delivery service that specializes in providing a variety of fresh and flavorful meal packages. The platform caters to diverse culinary preferences, offering cuisines such as Indian, Chinese, Italian, American, Mexican, and Thai. Customers can conveniently place orders for lunch and dinner through the website or mobile application. FreshMenu operates in several areas, including Koramangala, Richmond Town, Indiranagar, and Whitefield, among others, ensuring a wide reach for its services. The focus is on delivering tasty and healthy food options to meet the needs of busy consumers.

PavoMea

Series A in 2018
PavoMea is a dessert and snack brand.

Udaan

Series C in 2018
Udaan is a B2B e-commerce platform based in India that connects businesses with suppliers across various sectors, including FMCG, pharmaceuticals, and staples. It aims to address core trade challenges faced by small, medium, and large enterprises by providing a centralized platform for buying and selling goods. Udaan facilitates direct connections between clients, allowing them to negotiate better deals while ensuring secure payment processes and efficient logistics. The platform also supports small businesses by offering financial products tailored to their needs, thereby enhancing their operational capabilities and market reach.

Xingbianli

Corporate Round in 2018
Xingbianli is a company that specializes in operating checkout-free convenience stores, with a particular focus on placing snack bars in offices. These snack bars offer a variety of items such as drinks, biscuits, and instant noodles, catering primarily to office workers. The company emphasizes convenience and speed, allowing customers to pay via mobile payment options like WeChat Pay and Alipay. Xingbianli's business model revolves around providing self-service solutions that enable quick and easy access to snacks and beverages in workplace settings.

Brandable

Series A in 2018
Brandable, Inc. is a consumer packaged goods company founded in 2017 and based in Beverly Hills, California. It specializes in brand building services, including influencer acquisition and brand management, primarily in the toys, wellness, and food and drink sectors. Brandable creates, manufactures, and sells modern consumer-focused brands, emerging as a key supplier for major retailers in North America, including Walmart and Target. The company is recognized for its innovative approach to launching new consumer product brands, leveraging influencer-driven, omni-channel demand creation techniques. Through its diverse product offerings, which include items in feminine hygiene, Brandable aims to establish relevant and impactful brands in the market.

Udaan

Series B in 2018
Udaan is a B2B e-commerce platform based in India that connects businesses with suppliers across various sectors, including FMCG, pharmaceuticals, and staples. It aims to address core trade challenges faced by small, medium, and large enterprises by providing a centralized platform for buying and selling goods. Udaan facilitates direct connections between clients, allowing them to negotiate better deals while ensuring secure payment processes and efficient logistics. The platform also supports small businesses by offering financial products tailored to their needs, thereby enhancing their operational capabilities and market reach.

Xingbianli

Series A in 2017
Xingbianli is a company that specializes in operating checkout-free convenience stores, with a particular focus on placing snack bars in offices. These snack bars offer a variety of items such as drinks, biscuits, and instant noodles, catering primarily to office workers. The company emphasizes convenience and speed, allowing customers to pay via mobile payment options like WeChat Pay and Alipay. Xingbianli's business model revolves around providing self-service solutions that enable quick and easy access to snacks and beverages in workplace settings.

Xingbianli

Angel Round in 2017
Xingbianli is a company that specializes in operating checkout-free convenience stores, with a particular focus on placing snack bars in offices. These snack bars offer a variety of items such as drinks, biscuits, and instant noodles, catering primarily to office workers. The company emphasizes convenience and speed, allowing customers to pay via mobile payment options like WeChat Pay and Alipay. Xingbianli's business model revolves around providing self-service solutions that enable quick and easy access to snacks and beverages in workplace settings.

Udaan

Series A in 2016
Udaan is a B2B e-commerce platform based in India that connects businesses with suppliers across various sectors, including FMCG, pharmaceuticals, and staples. It aims to address core trade challenges faced by small, medium, and large enterprises by providing a centralized platform for buying and selling goods. Udaan facilitates direct connections between clients, allowing them to negotiate better deals while ensuring secure payment processes and efficient logistics. The platform also supports small businesses by offering financial products tailored to their needs, thereby enhancing their operational capabilities and market reach.

Baiwancang

Angel Round in 2016
Baiwancang is a B2B e-commerce platform based in China that specializes in industrial products and electronics. It connects businesses with quality products and merchants within the industrial sector, offering a comprehensive service that integrates both online and offline elements. The platform aims to enhance the procurement strategies of purchasing enterprises by focusing on reducing costs, improving efficiency, and facilitating online purchasing. Through its services, Baiwancang provides personalized support to help procurement companies navigate their purchasing needs effectively.

Fashionara

Venture Round in 2016
Fashionara offers a range of premium merchandise in fashion and lifestyle.

FreshMenu

Series B in 2016
FreshMenu is an online food delivery service that specializes in providing a variety of fresh and flavorful meal packages. The platform caters to diverse culinary preferences, offering cuisines such as Indian, Chinese, Italian, American, Mexican, and Thai. Customers can conveniently place orders for lunch and dinner through the website or mobile application. FreshMenu operates in several areas, including Koramangala, Richmond Town, Indiranagar, and Whitefield, among others, ensuring a wide reach for its services. The focus is on delivering tasty and healthy food options to meet the needs of busy consumers.

Haochushi

Series B in 2015
Haochushi launched its service in 10 second-tier cities this year , according to the company. They also opened several more product categories online to provide customized meal options since January.

FreshMenu

Series A in 2015
FreshMenu is an online food delivery service that specializes in providing a variety of fresh and flavorful meal packages. The platform caters to diverse culinary preferences, offering cuisines such as Indian, Chinese, Italian, American, Mexican, and Thai. Customers can conveniently place orders for lunch and dinner through the website or mobile application. FreshMenu operates in several areas, including Koramangala, Richmond Town, Indiranagar, and Whitefield, among others, ensuring a wide reach for its services. The focus is on delivering tasty and healthy food options to meet the needs of busy consumers.

The Honest Company

Series C in 2014
The Honest Company, Inc. is a consumer products firm based in Santa Monica, California, established in 2011. It specializes in designing and manufacturing a diverse range of eco-friendly and affordable products aimed at families and homes. The company's offerings include bundles for babies, bath and body care, cleaning supplies, and health and wellness products. Prominent items in their portfolio consist of eco-friendly diapers and wipes, skincare products, household cleaners, and organic nutritional supplements. The Honest Company operates through both retail and digital channels, ensuring broad accessibility for consumers. Its revenue is primarily driven by the sale of diapers and wipes, emphasizing the brand's commitment to convenience and sustainability.

Fresh Nation

Seed Round in 2014
Fresh Nation is an enterprise-level B2B wholesale marketplace and management platform for the retail grocery industry, operationalizing local and specialty food assortments for the nation’s largest retailers and distributors. Fresh Nation’s proprietary Virtual Supply Chain™ platform simplifies the complexity of working with thousands of small vendors, saving time and cutting costs. Incorporating a vendor and product rich CRM, interactive supplier portal, order management suite, accounting and invoicing tools, and flexible EDI/API integrations, Fresh Nation is becoming the grocery industry standard for enterprise specialty food management.

Fashionara

Series B in 2013
Fashionara offers a range of premium merchandise in fashion and lifestyle.

The Honest Company

Series B in 2013
The Honest Company, Inc. is a consumer products firm based in Santa Monica, California, established in 2011. It specializes in designing and manufacturing a diverse range of eco-friendly and affordable products aimed at families and homes. The company's offerings include bundles for babies, bath and body care, cleaning supplies, and health and wellness products. Prominent items in their portfolio consist of eco-friendly diapers and wipes, skincare products, household cleaners, and organic nutritional supplements. The Honest Company operates through both retail and digital channels, ensuring broad accessibility for consumers. Its revenue is primarily driven by the sale of diapers and wipes, emphasizing the brand's commitment to convenience and sustainability.

Fashionara

Series A in 2012
Fashionara offers a range of premium merchandise in fashion and lifestyle.

The Honest Company

Series A in 2012
The Honest Company, Inc. is a consumer products firm based in Santa Monica, California, established in 2011. It specializes in designing and manufacturing a diverse range of eco-friendly and affordable products aimed at families and homes. The company's offerings include bundles for babies, bath and body care, cleaning supplies, and health and wellness products. Prominent items in their portfolio consist of eco-friendly diapers and wipes, skincare products, household cleaners, and organic nutritional supplements. The Honest Company operates through both retail and digital channels, ensuring broad accessibility for consumers. Its revenue is primarily driven by the sale of diapers and wipes, emphasizing the brand's commitment to convenience and sustainability.

The Honest Company

Seed Round in 2011
The Honest Company, Inc. is a consumer products firm based in Santa Monica, California, established in 2011. It specializes in designing and manufacturing a diverse range of eco-friendly and affordable products aimed at families and homes. The company's offerings include bundles for babies, bath and body care, cleaning supplies, and health and wellness products. Prominent items in their portfolio consist of eco-friendly diapers and wipes, skincare products, household cleaners, and organic nutritional supplements. The Honest Company operates through both retail and digital channels, ensuring broad accessibility for consumers. Its revenue is primarily driven by the sale of diapers and wipes, emphasizing the brand's commitment to convenience and sustainability.

Mercantila

Venture Round in 2006
Mercantila is a San Francisco-based company that operates a chain of specialty online retail shops. The business focuses on offering a wide range of products, including fitness and sports equipment as well as items for kids and babies. Their inventory features various fitness apparatus such as elliptical trainers, exercise bikes, home gyms, and treadmills, alongside children's products like baby strollers, cribs, and play kitchens. This diverse selection caters to both fitness enthusiasts and families, positioning Mercantila as a versatile player in the online retail market.

FatLens

Series A in 2005
FatLens is the first e-commerce search engine built with patent-pending technology specifically to enhance your online shopping experience. Innovative FatLens technology instantaneously brings you the web's most comprehensive, relevant and unbiased product search results, and the first-ever integrated search with instant messaging for real-time, collaborative online shopping with your friends and family. FatLens provides you the web's most comprehensive e-commerce search results by indexing relevant data from the most number of e-commerce sites and exhaustively categorizing all of the for-sale items at each crawled site. FatLens brings you the most relevant results to your product search through our patent-pending TRIP™ scoring system that accurately matches the indexed and categorized items for sale to your query. Built-in category intelligence easily handles nicknames, misspellings, synonyms and also "fuzzy" matches for providing the greatest relevancy. FatLens also uniquely enhances your e-commerce experience by integrating search with popular instant messaging products (Yahoo! Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger). FatLens enables you to interact in real-time with your friends and family to quickly complete joint or group buying, get timely expert advice or validation, and of course enjoy sharing the online shopping experience. You can search for products you want to buy, select specific products of interest to you to share with your friends and family. By invoking the IM/Collaboration capability (just click the share using Yahoo! Messenger button or AIM button) you can invite your IM buddies to view, share, and refine your product preferences online while also chatting about your choices. The company was founded by an experienced team of entrepreneurs and technologists who have co-founded and worked at successful Internet and search engine technology companies in Silicon Valley. FatLens started operations in 2003 and received its first venture financing from Redpoint Ventures and Cambrian Ventures.
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