Lightspeed Europe

Lightspeed Europe is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage and growth investments across various sectors, including consumer, health, and fintech. With its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and regional offices in Europe, Israel, India, and China, Lightspeed aims to identify and support innovative companies that can disrupt traditional markets. The firm invests in a wide range of industries, such as enterprise technology, e-commerce, software, and biotechnology, providing both equity and debt financing. Lightspeed has a particular interest in technology-led businesses, as well as opportunities in advertising, media, healthcare, education, and retail. Its investment strategy emphasizes the provision of capital along with ongoing consulting and advisory services to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses effectively.

Shaurya Aggarwal

Partner

Vaibhav Agrawal

Associate Partner

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner and Head of Gaming

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Akshay Bhushan

Venture Partner

Taggart Bonham

Partner

Ashley Brasier

Partner

Guru Chahal

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Amish Desai

Partner

Barry Eggers

Founder and Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

James Ephrati

Partner

Faraz Fatemi

Partner, Consumer

Jack Fowler

Partner

Aaron Frank

Venture Partner

Vivek Gambhir

Venture Partner

Gaurav Gupta

Partner

David Gussarsky

Partner

Lisa Han

Partner

Dat Han

Senior Associate

Rob Horton JD

COO

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Nnamdi Iregbulem

Partner

Raviraj Jain

Partner

Arif Janmohamed

Partner

Ansaf Kareem

Partner

Issac Kim

Partner

Harsha Kumar

Associate Partner

Pinn Lawjindakul

Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Jeremy Liew

Partner

Connor Love

Partner

John Luongo

Venture Partner

Natalie Luu

Partner

Naveed Matinfar

Partner

Arsham Memarzadeh

Partner

Michael Mignano

Partner, Consumer

Hemant Mohapatra

Partner

Andrew Moley

Operating Partner and CFO

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Antoine Moyroud

Partner

Eric O'Brien

Affiliated Partner

Justin Overdorff

Partner

Apoorva Pandhi

Associate

Nicole Quinn

General Partner

Adrian Radu

Partner

Alexander Schmitt

Partner

Shan Shan

Partner

Aditya Sharma

Partner, Growth Equity - India and Asia-Pacific

Justin Shen

Partner

Justin Shen

Partner

Alex Taussig

Partner

John Thompson

Venture Partner

John Thompson

Venture Partner

Anoushka Vaswani

Partner

Nathan Wu

Partner, Growth

Mark Xu

Partner

Mark Xu

Partner

Jerry Ye

Partner, Data Platform

Past deals in Machine Learning

BlueLearn

Seed Round in 2023
Bluelearn is a digital education platform focused on student communities, providing a comprehensive environment for students to develop new skills and enhance their personal growth. The platform offers live interactive courses, facilitating peer networking and internship applications. Additionally, it creates earning opportunities for students through online teaching on an hourly basis, allowing them to learn while also generating income. Bluelearn aims to empower students by combining education with practical career advancement.

Laiye

Series C in 2022
Laiye is an AI interactive platform that offers consumers and enterprises with intelligent assistant products developed with natural language processing, multi-turn dialog management, and context-based recommendation technologies. The company's main product, Wulai, enables enterprises to build chatbots. It also aims to help enterprise customers improve sales revenue, marketing ROI, and service efficiency through a business messaging and conversation solutions. Laiye was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

NyquistAI

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a global data platform designed to unlock hidden insights from unstructured life science data. The company's platform uses machine learning technology to connect the dots from clinical trials to real-world data to generate a full life cycle Medtech perspective, enabling healthcare professionals to find the right information to make the right decisions.

Ponder

Seed Round in 2022
Ponder Data Inc. specializes in providing enterprise-ready tools that facilitate rapid and flexible experimentation with data at scale. The company's platform is designed to enhance productivity for data teams by enabling them to obtain insights more swiftly, utilizing familiar tools. Ponder's technology focuses on maintaining scalable machine learning and analytics capabilities, allowing users to handle workloads of varying sizes while preserving the user-friendly nature of the pandas API. This approach empowers organizations to perform data science tasks efficiently and effectively, making it easier for teams to derive valuable insights from their data.

LeapYear Technologies

Venture Round in 2021
LeapYear Technologies, Inc. operates a platform designed to help organizations extract value from sensitive data while ensuring its security and privacy. The platform allows domain experts, data scientists, and partner organizations to develop automated machine learning applications and APIs that facilitate the use of confidential and regulated data sources. By implementing differential privacy, LeapYear ensures that data can be utilized for analysis and machine learning without exposing or compromising individual data points. The company collaborates with major players in sectors such as financial services, healthcare, technology, and insurance to combine and analyze previously restricted data, enabling organizations to monetize these valuable assets effectively. Founded in 2014 and based in Berkeley, California, LeapYear Technologies was known as Shroudbase, Inc. prior to its name change in January 2015.

People.ai

Series D in 2021
People.ai is an artificial intelligence platform based in San Francisco, California, designed to enhance revenue operations for enterprise teams. The platform automates processes related to sales, marketing, and customer success, enabling organizations to identify and capitalize on revenue opportunities. By capturing comprehensive data on customer contacts, activities, and engagements, People.ai provides actionable insights that help sales leaders manage their teams effectively and drive revenue growth. The platform offers tools for personalized coaching, sales performance analytics, and pipeline reviews, allowing users to visualize interactions with potential buyers and assess the success of marketing campaigns. Customer success teams utilize People.ai to ensure effective engagement with clients post-sale, aligning their efforts with the right opportunities and tracking the costs associated with customer support. Overall, People.ai aims to transform business activities by leveraging AI technology to deliver insights that foster predictable growth and improved sales productivity.

BlueLearn

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Bluelearn is a digital education platform focused on student communities, providing a comprehensive environment for students to develop new skills and enhance their personal growth. The platform offers live interactive courses, facilitating peer networking and internship applications. Additionally, it creates earning opportunities for students through online teaching on an hourly basis, allowing them to learn while also generating income. Bluelearn aims to empower students by combining education with practical career advancement.

Snorkel

Series C in 2021
Snorkel AI, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an end-to-end machine-learning platform aimed at facilitating the creation, management, and monitoring of AI applications. Central to its offerings is Snorkel Flow, a data-first platform that enables users to programmatically label and augment training data, manage data for AI purposes, and deploy various machine learning models. The platform is particularly effective in extracting entities and structured information from complex documents, making it valuable across multiple sectors, including finance, government, telecommunications, healthcare, and e-commerce. Snorkel AI's innovative approach incorporates weak supervision technology, allowing both developers and non-developers to focus on data-related tasks efficiently. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Snorkel AI also contributes to the academic community by publishing peer-reviewed research on its core technologies.

Yellow.ai

Series C in 2021
Yellow Messenger is an information technology company that offers a software platform that serves as an enterprise AI channel for customer engagement. The company specializes in the fields of artificial intelligence, customer engagement, customer service, chatbots, and enterprise. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Karnataka, India.

Moveworks

Series C in 2021
Moveworks, Inc. is a developer of a cloud-based AI platform that addresses IT support issues for enterprises. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in Culver City, the company provides a solution that autonomously resolves various employee requests, such as ordering hardware, requesting software access, and checking the status of open tickets. Utilizing chat applications like Slack, Moveworks enables seamless interaction and delivers automated solutions without the need for human intervention. The platform is designed to enhance employee productivity by leveraging natural language processing to understand organizational nuances and automate tasks across different systems. Moveworks serves a diverse clientele, including prominent brands and Fortune 500 companies, making it a vital partner in maintaining operational efficiency.

Fiddler

Series B in 2021
Fiddler Labs, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence platform designed to help businesses analyze, manage, and deploy their machine learning models effectively. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Fiddler offers an Explainable AI Engine that promotes transparency and understanding in AI solutions. This platform allows users across data science, product, and business teams to comprehend, validate, and manage their AI implementations, ensuring that these systems deliver reliable and trustworthy experiences for end-users. By providing statistical metrics, performance monitoring, and centralized controls, Fiddler aims to make AI more accessible and trustworthy for enterprises, ultimately unlocking the complexities of AI and enhancing user confidence in its applications.

Eightfold.ai

Series E in 2021
Eightfold.ai develops a talent intelligence platform designed to enhance talent acquisition and management for organizations. Founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, the platform aggregates comprehensive people data from applicants to alumni. It utilizes artificial intelligence to assess individuals' capabilities, enabling enterprises to match candidates with suitable opportunities and predict future roles and performance. The platform also helps organizations retain top talent by facilitating upskilling and reskilling, promoting diversity, and creating a talent network that identifies top performers and performance trends. Additionally, it provides tools for building job descriptions and generating a pipeline of qualified candidates for open roles, while assisting employees in understanding potential growth opportunities within the organization.

Laiye

Series C in 2021
Laiye is an AI interactive platform that offers consumers and enterprises with intelligent assistant products developed with natural language processing, multi-turn dialog management, and context-based recommendation technologies. The company's main product, Wulai, enables enterprises to build chatbots. It also aims to help enterprise customers improve sales revenue, marketing ROI, and service efficiency through a business messaging and conversation solutions. Laiye was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

Snorkel

Series B in 2021
Snorkel AI, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an end-to-end machine-learning platform aimed at facilitating the creation, management, and monitoring of AI applications. Central to its offerings is Snorkel Flow, a data-first platform that enables users to programmatically label and augment training data, manage data for AI purposes, and deploy various machine learning models. The platform is particularly effective in extracting entities and structured information from complex documents, making it valuable across multiple sectors, including finance, government, telecommunications, healthcare, and e-commerce. Snorkel AI's innovative approach incorporates weak supervision technology, allowing both developers and non-developers to focus on data-related tasks efficiently. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Snorkel AI also contributes to the academic community by publishing peer-reviewed research on its core technologies.

Eightfold.ai

Series D in 2020
Eightfold.ai develops a talent intelligence platform designed to enhance talent acquisition and management for organizations. Founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, the platform aggregates comprehensive people data from applicants to alumni. It utilizes artificial intelligence to assess individuals' capabilities, enabling enterprises to match candidates with suitable opportunities and predict future roles and performance. The platform also helps organizations retain top talent by facilitating upskilling and reskilling, promoting diversity, and creating a talent network that identifies top performers and performance trends. Additionally, it provides tools for building job descriptions and generating a pipeline of qualified candidates for open roles, while assisting employees in understanding potential growth opportunities within the organization.

Lunchclub

Series A in 2020
Lunchclub is an AI-driven platform founded in 2018 by Vladimir Novakovski, Hayley Leibson, and Scott Wu, headquartered in San Francisco, California. The service specializes in facilitating one-on-one meetings, such as lunches and coffee chats, by connecting users with potential business partners, team members, or investors. Through its innovative approach, Lunchclub enables clients to make meaningful introductions that support their professional objectives, fostering collaboration and advancement within various fields. The platform emphasizes the importance of personalized connections to enhance networking opportunities and help users achieve their goals.

Yellow.ai

Series B in 2020
Yellow Messenger is an information technology company that offers a software platform that serves as an enterprise AI channel for customer engagement. The company specializes in the fields of artificial intelligence, customer engagement, customer service, chatbots, and enterprise. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Karnataka, India.

Laiye

Series C in 2020
Laiye is an AI interactive platform that offers consumers and enterprises with intelligent assistant products developed with natural language processing, multi-turn dialog management, and context-based recommendation technologies. The company's main product, Wulai, enables enterprises to build chatbots. It also aims to help enterprise customers improve sales revenue, marketing ROI, and service efficiency through a business messaging and conversation solutions. Laiye was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

Moveworks

Series B in 2019
Moveworks, Inc. is a developer of a cloud-based AI platform that addresses IT support issues for enterprises. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in Culver City, the company provides a solution that autonomously resolves various employee requests, such as ordering hardware, requesting software access, and checking the status of open tickets. Utilizing chat applications like Slack, Moveworks enables seamless interaction and delivers automated solutions without the need for human intervention. The platform is designed to enhance employee productivity by leveraging natural language processing to understand organizational nuances and automate tasks across different systems. Moveworks serves a diverse clientele, including prominent brands and Fortune 500 companies, making it a vital partner in maintaining operational efficiency.

Fiddler

Series A in 2019
Fiddler Labs, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence platform designed to help businesses analyze, manage, and deploy their machine learning models effectively. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Fiddler offers an Explainable AI Engine that promotes transparency and understanding in AI solutions. This platform allows users across data science, product, and business teams to comprehend, validate, and manage their AI implementations, ensuring that these systems deliver reliable and trustworthy experiences for end-users. By providing statistical metrics, performance monitoring, and centralized controls, Fiddler aims to make AI more accessible and trustworthy for enterprises, ultimately unlocking the complexities of AI and enhancing user confidence in its applications.

Yellow.ai

Series A in 2019
Yellow Messenger is an information technology company that offers a software platform that serves as an enterprise AI channel for customer engagement. The company specializes in the fields of artificial intelligence, customer engagement, customer service, chatbots, and enterprise. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Karnataka, India.

LeapYear Technologies

Series B in 2019
LeapYear Technologies, Inc. operates a platform designed to help organizations extract value from sensitive data while ensuring its security and privacy. The platform allows domain experts, data scientists, and partner organizations to develop automated machine learning applications and APIs that facilitate the use of confidential and regulated data sources. By implementing differential privacy, LeapYear ensures that data can be utilized for analysis and machine learning without exposing or compromising individual data points. The company collaborates with major players in sectors such as financial services, healthcare, technology, and insurance to combine and analyze previously restricted data, enabling organizations to monetize these valuable assets effectively. Founded in 2014 and based in Berkeley, California, LeapYear Technologies was known as Shroudbase, Inc. prior to its name change in January 2015.

People.ai

Series C in 2019
People.ai is an artificial intelligence platform based in San Francisco, California, designed to enhance revenue operations for enterprise teams. The platform automates processes related to sales, marketing, and customer success, enabling organizations to identify and capitalize on revenue opportunities. By capturing comprehensive data on customer contacts, activities, and engagements, People.ai provides actionable insights that help sales leaders manage their teams effectively and drive revenue growth. The platform offers tools for personalized coaching, sales performance analytics, and pipeline reviews, allowing users to visualize interactions with potential buyers and assess the success of marketing campaigns. Customer success teams utilize People.ai to ensure effective engagement with clients post-sale, aligning their efforts with the right opportunities and tracking the costs associated with customer support. Overall, People.ai aims to transform business activities by leveraging AI technology to deliver insights that foster predictable growth and improved sales productivity.

Eightfold.ai

Series C in 2019
Eightfold.ai develops a talent intelligence platform designed to enhance talent acquisition and management for organizations. Founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, the platform aggregates comprehensive people data from applicants to alumni. It utilizes artificial intelligence to assess individuals' capabilities, enabling enterprises to match candidates with suitable opportunities and predict future roles and performance. The platform also helps organizations retain top talent by facilitating upskilling and reskilling, promoting diversity, and creating a talent network that identifies top performers and performance trends. Additionally, it provides tools for building job descriptions and generating a pipeline of qualified candidates for open roles, while assisting employees in understanding potential growth opportunities within the organization.

Moveworks

Series A in 2019
Moveworks, Inc. is a developer of a cloud-based AI platform that addresses IT support issues for enterprises. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in Culver City, the company provides a solution that autonomously resolves various employee requests, such as ordering hardware, requesting software access, and checking the status of open tickets. Utilizing chat applications like Slack, Moveworks enables seamless interaction and delivers automated solutions without the need for human intervention. The platform is designed to enhance employee productivity by leveraging natural language processing to understand organizational nuances and automate tasks across different systems. Moveworks serves a diverse clientele, including prominent brands and Fortune 500 companies, making it a vital partner in maintaining operational efficiency.

People.ai

Series B in 2018
People.ai is an artificial intelligence platform based in San Francisco, California, designed to enhance revenue operations for enterprise teams. The platform automates processes related to sales, marketing, and customer success, enabling organizations to identify and capitalize on revenue opportunities. By capturing comprehensive data on customer contacts, activities, and engagements, People.ai provides actionable insights that help sales leaders manage their teams effectively and drive revenue growth. The platform offers tools for personalized coaching, sales performance analytics, and pipeline reviews, allowing users to visualize interactions with potential buyers and assess the success of marketing campaigns. Customer success teams utilize People.ai to ensure effective engagement with clients post-sale, aligning their efforts with the right opportunities and tracking the costs associated with customer support. Overall, People.ai aims to transform business activities by leveraging AI technology to deliver insights that foster predictable growth and improved sales productivity.

Fiddler

Seed Round in 2018
Fiddler Labs, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence platform designed to help businesses analyze, manage, and deploy their machine learning models effectively. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Fiddler offers an Explainable AI Engine that promotes transparency and understanding in AI solutions. This platform allows users across data science, product, and business teams to comprehend, validate, and manage their AI implementations, ensuring that these systems deliver reliable and trustworthy experiences for end-users. By providing statistical metrics, performance monitoring, and centralized controls, Fiddler aims to make AI more accessible and trustworthy for enterprises, ultimately unlocking the complexities of AI and enhancing user confidence in its applications.

Eightfold.ai

Series B in 2018
Eightfold.ai develops a talent intelligence platform designed to enhance talent acquisition and management for organizations. Founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, the platform aggregates comprehensive people data from applicants to alumni. It utilizes artificial intelligence to assess individuals' capabilities, enabling enterprises to match candidates with suitable opportunities and predict future roles and performance. The platform also helps organizations retain top talent by facilitating upskilling and reskilling, promoting diversity, and creating a talent network that identifies top performers and performance trends. Additionally, it provides tools for building job descriptions and generating a pipeline of qualified candidates for open roles, while assisting employees in understanding potential growth opportunities within the organization.

Laiye

Series B in 2017
Laiye is an AI interactive platform that offers consumers and enterprises with intelligent assistant products developed with natural language processing, multi-turn dialog management, and context-based recommendation technologies. The company's main product, Wulai, enables enterprises to build chatbots. It also aims to help enterprise customers improve sales revenue, marketing ROI, and service efficiency through a business messaging and conversation solutions. Laiye was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

Qubole

Series D in 2017
Qubole is a simple and secure data lake platform for machine learning, streaming, and ad-hoc analytics. With Qubole, data scientists can now spin up hundreds of clusters on their public cloud of choice and begin developing ad hoc and/or batch queries faster and have the system autoscale to the optimal compute levels as needed.

Sourceress

Seed Round in 2017
Sourceress is an AI recruiter that is reinventing how people find jobs. With tailor-made machine learning models, they rigorously define what a company is looking for in a role, identify great candidates, and engage candidates with highly personalized introductions. Their process creates a stream of interested candidates that hiring managers are excited about more than 85% of the time. Their mission is to accelerate human progress by helping people work in jobs that matter. They raised $3M from Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners and OpenAI researchers.

CrowdAmp Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
CrowdAmp is a one-to-many messaging platform. We use machine learning to enable scalable communications over text messaging.

People.ai

Series A in 2017
People.ai is an artificial intelligence platform based in San Francisco, California, designed to enhance revenue operations for enterprise teams. The platform automates processes related to sales, marketing, and customer success, enabling organizations to identify and capitalize on revenue opportunities. By capturing comprehensive data on customer contacts, activities, and engagements, People.ai provides actionable insights that help sales leaders manage their teams effectively and drive revenue growth. The platform offers tools for personalized coaching, sales performance analytics, and pipeline reviews, allowing users to visualize interactions with potential buyers and assess the success of marketing campaigns. Customer success teams utilize People.ai to ensure effective engagement with clients post-sale, aligning their efforts with the right opportunities and tracking the costs associated with customer support. Overall, People.ai aims to transform business activities by leveraging AI technology to deliver insights that foster predictable growth and improved sales productivity.

Qubole

Series C in 2016
Qubole is a simple and secure data lake platform for machine learning, streaming, and ad-hoc analytics. With Qubole, data scientists can now spin up hundreds of clusters on their public cloud of choice and begin developing ad hoc and/or batch queries faster and have the system autoscale to the optimal compute levels as needed.

Qubole

Series B in 2014
Qubole is a simple and secure data lake platform for machine learning, streaming, and ad-hoc analytics. With Qubole, data scientists can now spin up hundreds of clusters on their public cloud of choice and begin developing ad hoc and/or batch queries faster and have the system autoscale to the optimal compute levels as needed.

Zest AI

Series C in 2013
Zest AI makes the power of machine learning safe to use in credit underwriting. The Zest Model Management System enables lenders to analyze vast amounts of credit data to help increase approval rates and reduce the risk of faulty credit decisions. The platform also provides the ability to explain data modeling results to measure business impact and help comply with regulatory requirements. Lenders using Zest AI software make better decisions and better loans—increasing revenue, reducing risk, and automating compliance. Zest AI was founded in 2009 with the mission of making fair and transparent credit available to everyone. Learn more at http://www.zest.ai.

Qubole

Series A in 2013
Qubole is a simple and secure data lake platform for machine learning, streaming, and ad-hoc analytics. With Qubole, data scientists can now spin up hundreds of clusters on their public cloud of choice and begin developing ad hoc and/or batch queries faster and have the system autoscale to the optimal compute levels as needed.

Zest AI

Series B in 2012
Zest AI makes the power of machine learning safe to use in credit underwriting. The Zest Model Management System enables lenders to analyze vast amounts of credit data to help increase approval rates and reduce the risk of faulty credit decisions. The platform also provides the ability to explain data modeling results to measure business impact and help comply with regulatory requirements. Lenders using Zest AI software make better decisions and better loans—increasing revenue, reducing risk, and automating compliance. Zest AI was founded in 2009 with the mission of making fair and transparent credit available to everyone. Learn more at http://www.zest.ai.

Zest AI

Series B in 2012
Zest AI makes the power of machine learning safe to use in credit underwriting. The Zest Model Management System enables lenders to analyze vast amounts of credit data to help increase approval rates and reduce the risk of faulty credit decisions. The platform also provides the ability to explain data modeling results to measure business impact and help comply with regulatory requirements. Lenders using Zest AI software make better decisions and better loans—increasing revenue, reducing risk, and automating compliance. Zest AI was founded in 2009 with the mission of making fair and transparent credit available to everyone. Learn more at http://www.zest.ai.

Zest AI

Series A in 2011
Zest AI makes the power of machine learning safe to use in credit underwriting. The Zest Model Management System enables lenders to analyze vast amounts of credit data to help increase approval rates and reduce the risk of faulty credit decisions. The platform also provides the ability to explain data modeling results to measure business impact and help comply with regulatory requirements. Lenders using Zest AI software make better decisions and better loans—increasing revenue, reducing risk, and automating compliance. Zest AI was founded in 2009 with the mission of making fair and transparent credit available to everyone. Learn more at http://www.zest.ai.
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