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 Real Time

Redpanda Data

Series D in 2025
Redpanda Data is a company that provides a modern streaming data platform designed to handle large data streams effectively. Its platform allows users to record both real-time and historical enterprise data, making it a valuable tool for organizations that require efficient data management. Redpanda's architecture features a compatible application programming interface and is deployable as a single binary, which simplifies the deployment process. Additionally, it includes a built-in schema registry and operates without external dependencies, enhancing performance and reliability for developers. This combination of features enables enterprises to maintain their software stacks while improving data processing capabilities.

Cartesia

Series A in 2025
Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.

Zocks

Series A in 2025
Zocks, established in 2022 and based in San Francisco, specializes in real-time video call insights and privacy. The company's core product is a communication management platform, which captures and analyzes industry-specific insights from client conversations. Key features include claim code tracking, data entry reduction, session insights, HIPAA compliance, and API references, helping clients streamline workflows and extract valuable data from conversations.

Cartesia

Series A in 2024
Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.

Trail Security

Series A in 2024
Trail Security, based in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializes in data loss prevention. It offers an AI-driven platform that safeguards sensitive data across cloud, endpoint, and network systems. The company employs real-time monitoring, automated classification, and machine learning to detect, block, and remediate potential data breaches, and to identify unusual user behavior. It provides real-time insights into data access and sharing, protecting data at rest, in use, and transit. Currently, Trail Security operates in stealth mode.

XFactor

Series A in 2024
XFactor is a developer of a corporate decision platform that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance planning and strategy for businesses. The platform integrates trillions of data points by merging historical and real-time key indicators from internal and external sources within relevant markets. This capability enables organizations to continuously analyze and monitor sales performance in real-time, fostering informed decision-making and strategic insights.

Intenseye

Series B in 2024
Intenseye Inc. is a technology company based in San Jose, California, specializing in an AI-powered video analytics platform designed to enhance health and safety in workplace environments. Founded in 2018, Intenseye's platform utilizes advanced computer vision and machine learning to analyze real-time video feeds from existing cameras, enabling clients to monitor workplace conditions continuously. The system provides automated inspections and immediate notifications of safety violations, such as improper use of personal protective equipment or hazardous behaviors. By focusing on privacy, Intenseye ensures that the visual data processed does not include personally identifiable information. The company's solutions are particularly beneficial for large enterprises seeking to improve employee safety while minimizing accidents and operational errors.

Zocks

Seed Round in 2024
Zocks, established in 2022 and based in San Francisco, specializes in real-time video call insights and privacy. The company's core product is a communication management platform, which captures and analyzes industry-specific insights from client conversations. Key features include claim code tracking, data entry reduction, session insights, HIPAA compliance, and API references, helping clients streamline workflows and extract valuable data from conversations.

Polar Signals

Seed Round in 2024
Polar Signals offers a continuous profiling platform designed to measure and understand application performance over time. It helps businesses optimize costs, improve performance, and better comprehend incidents through statistical analysis of collected profiling data.

Redpanda Data

Series C in 2023
Redpanda Data is a company that provides a modern streaming data platform designed to handle large data streams effectively. Its platform allows users to record both real-time and historical enterprise data, making it a valuable tool for organizations that require efficient data management. Redpanda's architecture features a compatible application programming interface and is deployable as a single binary, which simplifies the deployment process. Additionally, it includes a built-in schema registry and operates without external dependencies, enhancing performance and reliability for developers. This combination of features enables enterprises to maintain their software stacks while improving data processing capabilities.

XFactor

Seed Round in 2022
XFactor is a developer of a corporate decision platform that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance planning and strategy for businesses. The platform integrates trillions of data points by merging historical and real-time key indicators from internal and external sources within relevant markets. This capability enables organizations to continuously analyze and monitor sales performance in real-time, fostering informed decision-making and strategic insights.

Normalyze

Series A in 2022
Normalyze specializes in cloud data security solutions. It offers an agentless scanning platform that discovers sensitive data and access paths across various cloud environments. The platform provides real-time visibility into security posture, enabling teams to analyze, prioritize, and respond to data threats efficiently.

Fullview

Seed Round in 2022
Fullview is a B2B platform that provides tools to scale live customer support. It enables real-time screen viewing, multiplayer screen control, and in-app video calls to speed up assistance. The platform also provides instant context for support tickets with a real-time feed and supports communicating with clients while viewing their screens, improving the efficiency of technical support for software companies.

Redpanda Data

Series B in 2022
Redpanda Data is a company that provides a modern streaming data platform designed to handle large data streams effectively. Its platform allows users to record both real-time and historical enterprise data, making it a valuable tool for organizations that require efficient data management. Redpanda's architecture features a compatible application programming interface and is deployable as a single binary, which simplifies the deployment process. Additionally, it includes a built-in schema registry and operates without external dependencies, enhancing performance and reliability for developers. This combination of features enables enterprises to maintain their software stacks while improving data processing capabilities.

PropBidder

Seed Round in 2022
PropBidder offers web-based software for real estate agents to manage online bidding processes. Its platform facilitates automatic real-time offer feedback for buyers through patented scoring technology.

ClickHouse

Series B in 2021
ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented database management system designed for online analytical processing. It enables real-time analytical reporting by executing SQL queries over large datasets. Its columnar storage reduces data footprint and speeds up query performance by eliminating unnecessary data, while vector-based processing enhances CPU efficiency for large-scale workloads. The system handles vast numbers of rows and gigabytes of data per server, delivering secure, reliable, and scalable analytics that help enterprises streamline data processing.

Materialize

Series C in 2021
Materialize develops a SQL streaming database platform that enables users to query and analyze real-time data. Founded in 2019, the company is headquartered in New York.

Polar Signals

Seed Round in 2021
Polar Signals offers a continuous profiling platform designed to measure and understand application performance over time. It helps businesses optimize costs, improve performance, and better comprehend incidents through statistical analysis of collected profiling data.

Redpanda Data

Series A in 2021
Redpanda Data is a company that provides a modern streaming data platform designed to handle large data streams effectively. Its platform allows users to record both real-time and historical enterprise data, making it a valuable tool for organizations that require efficient data management. Redpanda's architecture features a compatible application programming interface and is deployable as a single binary, which simplifies the deployment process. Additionally, it includes a built-in schema registry and operates without external dependencies, enhancing performance and reliability for developers. This combination of features enables enterprises to maintain their software stacks while improving data processing capabilities.

Materialize

Series B in 2020
Materialize develops a SQL streaming database platform that enables users to query and analyze real-time data. Founded in 2019, the company is headquartered in New York.

Betty Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Betty Labs is a developer of a sports trivia application aimed at enhancing live sports experiences. The company’s flagship product, Sideline, is a mobile game that allows viewers to win money by predicting future events during sports broadcasts. This application generates real-time questions based on the ongoing game, transforming mundane moments into engaging opportunities to compete with friends and ascend leaderboards. Additionally, Betty Labs offers a social audio platform where fans can join live discussions with sports insiders and athletes, facilitating conversations about their favorite teams and topics. Through these innovative offerings, Betty Labs seeks to enrich the way fans engage with sports.

Redpanda Data

Seed Round in 2020
Redpanda Data is a company that provides a modern streaming data platform designed to handle large data streams effectively. Its platform allows users to record both real-time and historical enterprise data, making it a valuable tool for organizations that require efficient data management. Redpanda's architecture features a compatible application programming interface and is deployable as a single binary, which simplifies the deployment process. Additionally, it includes a built-in schema registry and operates without external dependencies, enhancing performance and reliability for developers. This combination of features enables enterprises to maintain their software stacks while improving data processing capabilities.

Materialize

Series A in 2019
Materialize develops a SQL streaming database platform that enables users to query and analyze real-time data. Founded in 2019, the company is headquartered in New York.

Illumix

Seed Round in 2018
Illumix specializes in developing augmented reality (AR) technologies and creating AR gaming experiences. Their integrated studio combines advanced computer vision research, gaming practices, and performance to enable dynamic AR games that interact with the environment in real-time.

Reflektive

Series C in 2018
Reflektive, Inc. is a performance management platform that focuses on enhancing employee engagement and analytics through real-time feedback. Established in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers solutions that allow employees to provide instantaneous feedback without disrupting their core workflows. Its platform includes tools for goal management, performance reviews, and ongoing check-ins, facilitating constructive conversations among employees and managers. Reflektive aims to ensure fairness in performance evaluations through its Calibration tool, which standardizes ratings across various departments and locations. The company serves over 450 clients globally, including notable organizations such as Comcast and Instacart, and operates an additional office in Bangalore. Recognized for its innovative approach, Reflektive has been acknowledged in industry reports as a leader in human capital management.

Streamlio

Series A in 2017
Streamlio, Inc. is a technology company specializing in real-time solutions for the messaging, processing, and storage of streaming data. Founded in 2016 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company leverages leading open-source technologies to provide a comprehensive platform that supports event-driven architecture, anomaly detection, and predictive modeling. Streamlio's offerings include scalable messaging systems that facilitate both publish-subscribe and queuing models, as well as high-performance stream processing capabilities designed to manage real-time data efficiently. Additionally, Streamlio provides a distributed storage platform that accommodates streaming data at scale, making it suitable for critical applications across data centers, cloud environments, and edge computing. The company's solutions have been validated in large-scale implementations at prominent organizations, enhancing the ability of businesses to build data-driven applications that respond dynamically to real-time information. As of October 2019, Streamlio operates as a subsidiary of Splunk Inc.

OverOps

Series C in 2017
OverOps, Inc. is a software company that specializes in online application monitoring and error analysis. Founded in 2011 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, OverOps provides a cloud-based platform that enables developers to identify and resolve production errors in real-time. The platform analyzes backend applications built with Java or .NET, allowing developers to receive detailed insights into exceptions, log errors, and performance slowdowns as they occur. By delivering the complete source code and variable states associated with critical errors, OverOps helps developers understand when and why issues arise, facilitating swift resolutions and optimized software performance. The company was previously known as Takipi Ltd. before rebranding in August 2016.

Reflektive

Series B in 2017
Reflektive, Inc. is a performance management platform that focuses on enhancing employee engagement and analytics through real-time feedback. Established in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers solutions that allow employees to provide instantaneous feedback without disrupting their core workflows. Its platform includes tools for goal management, performance reviews, and ongoing check-ins, facilitating constructive conversations among employees and managers. Reflektive aims to ensure fairness in performance evaluations through its Calibration tool, which standardizes ratings across various departments and locations. The company serves over 450 clients globally, including notable organizations such as Comcast and Instacart, and operates an additional office in Bangalore. Recognized for its innovative approach, Reflektive has been acknowledged in industry reports as a leader in human capital management.

Eonite Perception

Seed Round in 2016
Eonite Perception Inc. is a technology company based in Palo Alto, California, specializing in the development of advanced inside-out positional tracking software. Founded in 2015, Eonite creates three-dimensional mapping and ego-tracking systems that utilize commodity dense depth sensors. Their products cater to various markets, including augmented and virtual reality, home-scale 3D scanning, and robotics. The company offers a proprietary software development kit that enables developers to create applications across multiple industries, such as entertainment, architecture, engineering, and geographical information systems. Eonite’s AI-based software employs advanced computer vision algorithms to achieve sub-millimeter accuracy, facilitating improved localization and obstacle detection for robots and drones while maintaining low power consumption.

Reflektive

Series A in 2016
Reflektive, Inc. is a performance management platform that focuses on enhancing employee engagement and analytics through real-time feedback. Established in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers solutions that allow employees to provide instantaneous feedback without disrupting their core workflows. Its platform includes tools for goal management, performance reviews, and ongoing check-ins, facilitating constructive conversations among employees and managers. Reflektive aims to ensure fairness in performance evaluations through its Calibration tool, which standardizes ratings across various departments and locations. The company serves over 450 clients globally, including notable organizations such as Comcast and Instacart, and operates an additional office in Bangalore. Recognized for its innovative approach, Reflektive has been acknowledged in industry reports as a leader in human capital management.

OverOps

Series B in 2016
OverOps, Inc. is a software company that specializes in online application monitoring and error analysis. Founded in 2011 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, OverOps provides a cloud-based platform that enables developers to identify and resolve production errors in real-time. The platform analyzes backend applications built with Java or .NET, allowing developers to receive detailed insights into exceptions, log errors, and performance slowdowns as they occur. By delivering the complete source code and variable states associated with critical errors, OverOps helps developers understand when and why issues arise, facilitating swift resolutions and optimized software performance. The company was previously known as Takipi Ltd. before rebranding in August 2016.

Townrush

Seed Round in 2015
Townrush is an on-demand delivery platform that facilitates the rapid delivery of local goods within urban areas. By connecting merchants and customers with local logistics service providers, Townrush ensures that products can be picked up and delivered within hours. The company is focused on re-engineering the intra-city supply chain through the integration of advanced routing and assignment algorithms, supported by a robust payment infrastructure. Its team consists of skilled engineers and designers with backgrounds from leading companies and prestigious educational institutions, emphasizing a commitment to innovation and efficiency in urban logistics.

AppDynamics

Series E in 2014
AppDynamics provides an Application Intelligence Platform that enables businesses to proactively monitor, manage, and optimize complex software environments in real-time. The platform collects millions of performance data points across applications and infrastructure, identifies anomalies, applies automatic fixes, and measures business impact. It offers cloud or on-premise deployment flexibility.

BlockScore

Seed Round in 2014
BlockScore provides real-time identity verification services.

Insightera

Series A in 2013
Insightera is a company that operates a real-time B2B personalization platform designed to enhance customer acquisition for businesses. By utilizing advanced machine learning algorithms, Insightera offers software solutions that enable marketers to personalize the onsite experience for their customers. This innovative approach allows organizations to leverage their existing assets effectively, thereby accelerating the process of attracting and retaining clients in a competitive market.

AppDynamics

Series D in 2013
AppDynamics provides an Application Intelligence Platform that enables businesses to proactively monitor, manage, and optimize complex software environments in real-time. The platform collects millions of performance data points across applications and infrastructure, identifies anomalies, applies automatic fixes, and measures business impact. It offers cloud or on-premise deployment flexibility.

LiveU

Series D in 2012
LiveU specializes in real-time video streaming solutions for global broadcasters, enabling reliable live video acquisition and distribution across various platforms. Its product portfolio includes field units, encoders, software, decoders, and digital products, catering to diverse industries such as news agencies, sports channels, and online publishers.

streamOnce

Seed Round in 2012
StreamOnce transforms how teams collaborate by connecting today’s business systems into their social enterprise system. By bringing all of the relevant information for different systems to one social place, your team can search, manage and respond instantly to information.

Normalyze

Seed Round in 2012
Normalyze specializes in cloud data security solutions. It offers an agentless scanning platform that discovers sensitive data and access paths across various cloud environments. The platform provides real-time visibility into security posture, enabling teams to analyze, prioritize, and respond to data threats efficiently.

AppDynamics

Series C in 2012
AppDynamics provides an Application Intelligence Platform that enables businesses to proactively monitor, manage, and optimize complex software environments in real-time. The platform collects millions of performance data points across applications and infrastructure, identifies anomalies, applies automatic fixes, and measures business impact. It offers cloud or on-premise deployment flexibility.

LiveProfile

Series A in 2011
LiveProfile operates a cross-platform mobile messaging application that facilitates real-time communication among users. It offers features such as instant messaging, photo and video sharing, status updates, and customizable user profiles. The app provides real-time notifications for message delivery, reading, and typing statuses, enhancing the live conversation experience.

AppDynamics

Series B in 2010
AppDynamics provides an Application Intelligence Platform that enables businesses to proactively monitor, manage, and optimize complex software environments in real-time. The platform collects millions of performance data points across applications and infrastructure, identifies anomalies, applies automatic fixes, and measures business impact. It offers cloud or on-premise deployment flexibility.

AppDynamics

Series A in 2008
AppDynamics provides an Application Intelligence Platform that enables businesses to proactively monitor, manage, and optimize complex software environments in real-time. The platform collects millions of performance data points across applications and infrastructure, identifies anomalies, applies automatic fixes, and measures business impact. It offers cloud or on-premise deployment flexibility.

Virsa Systems

Series A in 2004
Virsa Systems Inc. is the developer of the only real-time, 24/7, security and controls compliance software for SAP systems. Purpose-built to maintain continuous compliance with stringent regulatory mandates such as Sarbanes-Oxley, Virsa's solutions automate risk assessment, eliminate false positives and deliver real-time simulation and remediation capabilities. By offering the world's largest library of built-in, best practice rules on segregation of duties, Virsa delivers accelerated implementation and faster remediation with the lowest cost of implementation. The acknowledged market leader, Virsa has the sector's largest installed base of enterprise customers and the preferred solutions for security, controls and corporate governance.

Celequest

Series B in 2004
Celequest Corporation is a provider of operational business intelligence solutions tailored for enterprises. Established in 2002 and initially named Viewceler Corp., the company rebranded to Celequest in 2003 and is based in Redwood City, California. Celequest is known for its LAVA platform, which delivers real-time business information to operational workers, facilitating timely decision-making and enabling the identification of emerging trends. The company offers its solutions across various domains, including financial performance management, risk mitigation, manufacturing operations, demand visibility, inventory monitoring, sales analysis, margin optimization, and logistics monitoring. Celequest's products are available both as an appliance and through a software-as-a-service model, allowing flexibility to meet diverse client needs. It operates as a subsidiary of International Business Machines Corp.

Celequest

Series A in 2002
Celequest Corporation is a provider of operational business intelligence solutions tailored for enterprises. Established in 2002 and initially named Viewceler Corp., the company rebranded to Celequest in 2003 and is based in Redwood City, California. Celequest is known for its LAVA platform, which delivers real-time business information to operational workers, facilitating timely decision-making and enabling the identification of emerging trends. The company offers its solutions across various domains, including financial performance management, risk mitigation, manufacturing operations, demand visibility, inventory monitoring, sales analysis, margin optimization, and logistics monitoring. Celequest's products are available both as an appliance and through a software-as-a-service model, allowing flexibility to meet diverse client needs. It operates as a subsidiary of International Business Machines Corp.

TimesTen

Venture Round in 2000
TimesTen offers real-time data management software for managing events, transactions, and data. The company was formerly known as TimesTen Performance Software, Inc. and changed its name to Oracle | TimesTen in 1996. Oracle | TimesTen is based in Mountain View, California.

ClickHouse

ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented database management system designed for online analytical processing. It enables real-time analytical reporting by executing SQL queries over large datasets. Its columnar storage reduces data footprint and speeds up query performance by eliminating unnecessary data, while vector-based processing enhances CPU efficiency for large-scale workloads. The system handles vast numbers of rows and gigabytes of data per server, delivering secure, reliable, and scalable analytics that help enterprises streamline data processing.
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