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

Venture Partner

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Luke Beseda

Partner

Akshay Bhushan

Partner

Taggart Bonham

Partner

Ashley Brasier

Partner

Cai Wei

Partner

Guru Chahal

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Amish Desai

Partner

Sebastian Duesterhoeft

Partner

Barry Eggers

Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

James Ephrati

Partner

Faraz Fatemi

Partner

Jack Fowler

Partner

Aaron Frank

Venture Partner

Adam Goldberg

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

Hu Peipei

Investment Manager

Galym Imanbayev MD

Partner

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Nnamdi Iregbulem

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

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Will Leas

Partner

Jeremy Liew

Partner

Connor Love

Partner

John Luongo

Venture Partner

Natalie Luu

Partner

Jonathan MacQuitty

Partner

Naveed Matinfar

Partner

Ravi Mhatre

Managing Director

James Mi

Partner

Hemant Mohapatra

Partner

Andrew Moley

Operating Partner and CFO

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Antoine Moyroud

Partner

Paul Murphy

Partner

Justin Overdorff

Partner

Zac Pan

Associate Partner

Apoorva Pandhi

Associate

Krish Parikh

Partner of Business Services

Nicole Quinn

General Partner

Adrian Nicholas Radu

Partner

Chris Schaepe

Co-Founder

Alexander Schmitt

Partner

Semil Shah

Venture Partner

Shan Shan

Partner

Justin Shen

Partner

Justin Shen

Partner

Shuvi Shrivastava

Partner

Ishaan Preet Singh

Investor

Bipul Sinha

Venture Partner

Bejul Somaia

Partner

Ajay Sudan

Venture Partner

Sun Daniel

Partner

Sydney Sykes

Partner

Alex Taussig

Partner

John Thompson

Venture Partner

John Thompson

Venture Partner

Anoushka Vaswani

Partner

Jason Wang

Partner

Nathan Wang

Vice President

Nathan Wu

Partner

Mark Xu

Partner

Mark Xu

Partner

Cici Yang

Vice President

Jerry Ye

Partner, Data Platform

Haowei Zhai

Vice President

Ju Zhang

Executive Director

Issac Zhang

Vice President

Gavin Zhu

Partner

Past deals in Payments

RedotPay

Series A in 2025
RedotPay is a technology company that focuses on blockchain-based payment solutions. It develops digital asset payment infrastructure, enabling users and businesses to transact using cryptocurrencies. The company's products facilitate spending and transferring of digital assets, providing unbanked populations and crypto users with fast, cost-efficient financial services.

Zolve

Series B in 2025
Zolve is a neo-banking platform that provides consumer financial products, including deposit accounts, prepaid cards, money transfers, bill payments, and cross-border transactions, with tools for monitoring spending and budgeting. Launched in 2020 and based in Bangalore, India, the company aims to create a borderless financial world that offers equitable access to global financial products on a single platform, helping individuals save and invest toward financial freedom.

Tabs

Series A in 2024
Tabs is an AI-powered platform that automates revenue processes for businesses. It structures contracts like MSAs, order forms, and emails to automate invoice computation through cash application. Founded in 2023, Tabs is headquartered in New York.

Finix

Series C in 2024
Finix develops a B2B payment processing platform that enables businesses to own, manage, and monetize their payments. The platform uses modular architecture and real-time tracking to consolidate payment data and facilitate global money transfers.

Travel Wallet

Venture Round in 2024
Travel Wallet is a mobile-based foreign currency payment service that offers a comprehensive digital travel wallet application. The platform provides users with various features, including currency exchange services, real-time exchange rates, an exchange rate calculator, local cash pick-up, and physical card issuance. Designed for tourists and business travelers, Travel Wallet aims to facilitate overseas direct purchases and payments without commission, making transactions more cost-effective compared to traditional retail banks. The company holds licenses for small overseas remittance businesses and electronic financial operations, ensuring compliance with necessary regulations and technology requirements. By partnering with banks, Travel Wallet enhances the convenience and efficiency of currency exchange services for its users.

Tabs

Seed Round in 2024
Tabs is an AI-powered platform that automates revenue processes for businesses. It structures contracts like MSAs, order forms, and emails to automate invoice computation through cash application. Founded in 2023, Tabs is headquartered in New York.

YouTrip

Series B in 2023
YouTrip is a Hong Kong and Singapore-based fintech startup developing a multi-currency mobile wallet. It enables users to pay abroad with no foreign transaction fees in over 150 currencies, store up to 10 currencies at wholesale exchange rates, and manage their money simply and intelligently via the YouTrip app. The company aims to revolutionize consumer banking and finance through its mobile-only platform.

XFlow

Seed Round in 2023
XFlow is a software company specializing in payments infrastructure designed to facilitate cross-border transactions for businesses. The company develops a platform that streamlines inward payment flows, addressing challenges such as regulatory complexity, lack of transparency, and high transaction costs. XFlow's solutions include performing compliance checks, determining the purpose of transfers, completing required documentation, and generating electronic foreign inward remittance advice. By simplifying the payment process, XFlow enables clients to efficiently send and receive money across global markets.

KillB

Seed Round in 2023
KillB gives companies access to a regulated, secure, and creative selection of tools to help them tackle today's financial difficulties. Their modular API provides their users with access to international payments, USD savings, and a borderless economy.

Deposits

Seed Round in 2022
Deposits partners with brands, banks, and businesses to provide streamlined workplace experiences centered around money management and benefits.

Balance

Series B in 2022
Balance provides a digital payments platform for B2B online purchasing, aiming to simplify the experience for both buyers and vendors. Founded in 2019 by Bar Geron and Yoni Shuster, it is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The B2B checkout platform processes online payments and employs a machine learning engine for real-time authentication and financial risk assessment, offering flexibility for businesses to pay on their own terms.

Finix

Venture Round in 2022
Finix develops a B2B payment processing platform that enables businesses to own, manage, and monetize their payments. The platform uses modular architecture and real-time tracking to consolidate payment data and facilitate global money transfers.

Razorpay

Secondary Market in 2022
Razorpay is a payment platform founded in 2014 and headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. It enables businesses to accept, process, and disburse payments through a comprehensive product suite that supports various payment methods, including credit cards, debit cards, net banking, UPI, and popular digital wallets. Razorpay offers APIs and integrations that facilitate the management of online transactions, automate electronic funds transfers, and enable real-time payment processing. The platform also allows businesses to collect recurring payments and share invoices with customers, providing a secure and efficient solution for financial transactions.

Pacto

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Pacto is a B2B enterprise software and payments company serving small merchants in Latin America. It develops tools and technology that enable banks and financial institutions to help merchants move beyond cash payments and grow their digital businesses. Headquartered in Mexico City, the company offers a point-of-sale and payments platform that supports restaurant operations and other retail use cases, featuring all-in-one payment integration, a mobile POS, order-and-pay capabilities from a cell phone, and automatic payment reconciliation. The platform aims to optimize daily operations and accelerate merchant growth by streamlining payments and reconciliation.

Payhawk

Series B in 2022
Founded in 2019, Payhawk is a leading spend management solution provider for businesses across Europe, the US, and the UK. It offers company cards, expense tracking, automated data extraction, and accounting software integrations to maximize efficiency and control spending.

Zebec

Series A in 2022
Zebec is a protocol on Solana that facilitates continuous settlement. It enables composable transfers of value, initially focusing on Stream Payroll.

Uni Cards

Series A in 2021
Uni Cards is a fintech company based in Bangalore, India, offering a digital pay-later card that lets users split purchases into installments over multiple months with no interest if paid on time. The Uni app enables access to the card and associated installment options, with cashback awarded for full payment. Founded in October 2020 by Nitin Gupta, Uni Cards aims to change how consumers manage credit by providing flexible, transparent repayment options.

Payitoff

Seed Round in 2021
Payitoff is a New York-based company specializing in debt infrastructure solutions, specifically focused on student loan repayment. The company develops API tools that provide users with money-saving guidance and facilitate automatic actions related to debt management. Its platform evaluates student loans to create optimal repayment schedules and identify potential savings opportunities, enabling financial institutions, fintechs, and workplace providers to assist their customers effectively. By leveraging its technology, Payitoff aims to help the average customer save approximately $240 per month on their student loans, empowering users with insights and automated enrollment options to improve their financial well-being.

Zolve

Series A in 2021
Zolve is a neo-banking platform that provides consumer financial products, including deposit accounts, prepaid cards, money transfers, bill payments, and cross-border transactions, with tools for monitoring spending and budgeting. Launched in 2020 and based in Bangalore, India, the company aims to create a borderless financial world that offers equitable access to global financial products on a single platform, helping individuals save and invest toward financial freedom.

menta

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Menta is a plug-and-play solution for B2B companies that provides financial services. Its platform is open and collaborative, allowing businesses to integrate a wide range of solutions such as utility bill payments, credits, investments, crypto payments, and loyalty programs, among many others. They provide a SmartPOS (or smart point of sale) payment that allows the solution to be implemented. Menta, founded in 2021 by Alejandro Quirno Lavalle, Virginia Folgueiro, and Santiago Lorenzo, is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

XFlow

Seed Round in 2021
XFlow is a software company specializing in payments infrastructure designed to facilitate cross-border transactions for businesses. The company develops a platform that streamlines inward payment flows, addressing challenges such as regulatory complexity, lack of transparency, and high transaction costs. XFlow's solutions include performing compliance checks, determining the purpose of transfers, completing required documentation, and generating electronic foreign inward remittance advice. By simplifying the payment process, XFlow enables clients to efficiently send and receive money across global markets.

Balance

Series A in 2021
Balance provides a digital payments platform for B2B online purchasing, aiming to simplify the experience for both buyers and vendors. Founded in 2019 by Bar Geron and Yoni Shuster, it is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The B2B checkout platform processes online payments and employs a machine learning engine for real-time authentication and financial risk assessment, offering flexibility for businesses to pay on their own terms.

Zolve

Seed Round in 2021
Zolve is a neo-banking platform that provides consumer financial products, including deposit accounts, prepaid cards, money transfers, bill payments, and cross-border transactions, with tools for monitoring spending and budgeting. Launched in 2020 and based in Bangalore, India, the company aims to create a borderless financial world that offers equitable access to global financial products on a single platform, helping individuals save and invest toward financial freedom.

Balance

Seed Round in 2021
Balance provides a digital payments platform for B2B online purchasing, aiming to simplify the experience for both buyers and vendors. Founded in 2019 by Bar Geron and Yoni Shuster, it is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The B2B checkout platform processes online payments and employs a machine learning engine for real-time authentication and financial risk assessment, offering flexibility for businesses to pay on their own terms.

Nextpls

Series B in 2020
Founded in 2018, Nextpls aims to revolutionize global digital financial transactions. Its flagship platform, Panda Remit, is Asia's leading digital remittance company, serving over 1.5 million customers across 40 countries with sustainable profitability. Nextpls also develops the Panda Platform for banks and enterprises, laying the groundwork for efficient international financial interactions.

Five Stars

Series D in 2020
Five Stars is a payment and loyalty platform that offers marketing, point of sale, and business development services to local businesses.

Uni Cards

Seed Round in 2020
Uni Cards is a fintech company based in Bangalore, India, offering a digital pay-later card that lets users split purchases into installments over multiple months with no interest if paid on time. The Uni app enables access to the card and associated installment options, with cashback awarded for full payment. Founded in October 2020 by Nitin Gupta, Uni Cards aims to change how consumers manage credit by providing flexible, transparent repayment options.

Finix

Series B in 2020
Finix develops a B2B payment processing platform that enables businesses to own, manage, and monetize their payments. The platform uses modular architecture and real-time tracking to consolidate payment data and facilitate global money transfers.

Teller

Seed Round in 2020
Teller is a London-based fintech API provider offering a unified, fully transactional banking API that lets developers connect users' bank accounts to apps and build financial products. The platform enables access to historical transactions, identity verification, cross-bank transfers, and payments through a single API, delivering bank-agnostic connectivity for developers and users. Established in 2019, Teller aims to simplify online banking and payments by providing reliable access to bank data and payments through one integration.

OkCredit

Series B in 2019
OkCredit is a financial technology company that offers a mobile-based application designed to streamline credit account management for shop owners and their customers. Founded in April 2017 by Gaurav Kumar and Aditya Prasad, the company is headquartered in Faridabad, India. The application allows merchants to easily record credit and payment transactions digitally, simplifying the process of tracking receivables and payables. By digitizing these transactions, OkCredit enables businesses to move away from traditional paper-based accounting methods, thereby reducing the burden of maintaining physical records. This innovative solution supports merchants in managing their financial operations more efficiently across the country.

Nextpls

Series A in 2019
Founded in 2018, Nextpls aims to revolutionize global digital financial transactions. Its flagship platform, Panda Remit, is Asia's leading digital remittance company, serving over 1.5 million customers across 40 countries with sustainable profitability. Nextpls also develops the Panda Platform for banks and enterprises, laying the groundwork for efficient international financial interactions.

OkCredit

Series A in 2019
OkCredit is a financial technology company that offers a mobile-based application designed to streamline credit account management for shop owners and their customers. Founded in April 2017 by Gaurav Kumar and Aditya Prasad, the company is headquartered in Faridabad, India. The application allows merchants to easily record credit and payment transactions digitally, simplifying the process of tracking receivables and payables. By digitizing these transactions, OkCredit enables businesses to move away from traditional paper-based accounting methods, thereby reducing the burden of maintaining physical records. This innovative solution supports merchants in managing their financial operations more efficiently across the country.

OkCredit

Seed Round in 2018
OkCredit is a financial technology company that offers a mobile-based application designed to streamline credit account management for shop owners and their customers. Founded in April 2017 by Gaurav Kumar and Aditya Prasad, the company is headquartered in Faridabad, India. The application allows merchants to easily record credit and payment transactions digitally, simplifying the process of tracking receivables and payables. By digitizing these transactions, OkCredit enables businesses to move away from traditional paper-based accounting methods, thereby reducing the burden of maintaining physical records. This innovative solution supports merchants in managing their financial operations more efficiently across the country.

Grab Financial Group

Venture Round in 2018
Grab Financial Group provides financial services across payments, rewards, lending, and insurance. A seamless point-of-sale (POS) system for merchants and a trusted mobile wallet of choice in Southeast Asia for payments such as in-store purchases, Grab transactions, and fund transfers.

Five Stars

Series C in 2016
Five Stars is a payment and loyalty platform that offers marketing, point of sale, and business development services to local businesses.

SimplyTapp

Series B in 2014
SimplyTapp, Inc., established in 2011 and based in Austin, Texas, offers cloud-based mobile payment solutions. The company enables customers to make payments at NFC-enabled retailers using a white label solution and check their balance through its platform. SimplyTapp serves various enterprises including banks, payment card issuers, transit authorities, and retailers, providing mobile payment distribution and authorization services.

Five Stars

Series B in 2014
Five Stars is a payment and loyalty platform that offers marketing, point of sale, and business development services to local businesses.

SimplyTapp

Series A in 2013
SimplyTapp, Inc., established in 2011 and based in Austin, Texas, offers cloud-based mobile payment solutions. The company enables customers to make payments at NFC-enabled retailers using a white label solution and check their balance through its platform. SimplyTapp serves various enterprises including banks, payment card issuers, transit authorities, and retailers, providing mobile payment distribution and authorization services.

Lemon

Series A in 2012
Lemon Wallet is a digital wallet that helps you spend smarter. The Smarter Wallet from Lemon turns your smartphone into a digital wallet that organizes and stores your IDs, credit cards, loyalty cards, receipts, coupons and more, so you can access what you need more conveniently, and you're always backed up in case your wallet is lost or stolen.

Five Stars

Series A in 2012
Five Stars is a payment and loyalty platform that offers marketing, point of sale, and business development services to local businesses.

Bling Nation

Series A in 2009
Bling Nation is a mobile platform designed to enhance customer engagement and streamline payment processes for businesses. It enables companies to convert their loyal customers into brand advocates while attracting new clientele through social rewards. The platform features unique tap-and-connect capabilities that integrate social media interactions with mobile transactions, allowing businesses to create a seamless experience between online and offline customer interactions during checkout. Additionally, Bling Nation employs technology aimed at reducing payment processing costs, particularly benefiting small banks and businesses.

EbixCash

Venture Round in 2007
EbixCash is India's largest end-to-end financial exchange, boasting a vast network of over 650,000 physical distribution outlets alongside a comprehensive online digital platform. The company integrates front-end distribution channels with robust back-end technology across various sectors, including payments solutions, travel, insurance, and financial technology. EbixCash holds a strong position in international remittance, foreign exchange, digital payments, domestic money remittance, prepaid cards, and travel services. Its business is organized into four key segments: Payments Solutions, Travel, Financial Technologies, and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Startups. Through its platform, EbixCash offers a range of services, such as domestic and international money remittance, foreign exchange, travel bookings, utility payments, lending, and wealth management, effectively addressing the financial needs of its customers.

99Bill Corporation

Series B in 2006
99Bill Corporation is a China-based provider of third-party electronic payment services for enterprises and individuals. It offers online RMB payment acceptance, login, online bill payment, and cross-border mobile payments, and supports payments through international cards such as VISA and MasterCard as well as domestic and international bank cards. The company delivers bank and prepaid card processing, account top-ups, mass payments, data security, and online marketing services, including automatic reloads for online gaming operations. It maintains partnerships with major banks and payment networks, including Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank of China, China UnionPay, Bank of Communications, and regional lenders such as CITIC Industrial Bank; technology and online services partners include NetEase, Ourgame, NetDragon, and Kingsoft. Founded in 2004, the company is headquartered in Shanghai and operates additional offices in Beijing and Guangzhou. Its platform aims to enable merchants and individuals to execute payments and integrate payment capabilities with related digital services.
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