Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm established in 1998 that focuses on investing in early-stage companies across a diverse range of sectors. The firm targets technology-led businesses as well as non-technology opportunities in areas such as advertising and media, healthcare, education, financial services, and retail. It engages in various investment stages, including seed, early-stage, later-stage, and expansion-stage financing. Lightspeed specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies while also exploring opportunities in consumer, enterprise, cleantech, and other markets. The firm is known for its strategic investments in innovative sectors, including big data, bitcoin, mobile technology, and software solutions.

Vaibhav Agrawal

Associate Partner

Saqib Awan

Partner

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Akshay Bhushan

Partner

Guru Chahal

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Shelley Chu

Partner

James Ephrati

Partner

Gaurav Gupta

Partner

David Gussarsky

Partner

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Nnamdi Iregbulem

Partner

Raviraj Jain

Partner

Arif Janmohamed

Partner

Ansaf Kareem

Partner

Dev Khare

Partner

Harsha Kumar

Associate Partner

Pinn Lawjindakul

Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Will Leas

Partner

Jeremy Liew

Partner

Jonathan MacQuitty

Venture Partner

Hemant Mohapatra

Partner

Andrew Moley

Operating Partner and CFO

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Justin Overdorff

Partner

Nicole Quinn

General Partner

Christopher Schaepe

Co-Founder

Shan Shan

Partner

Shuvi Shrivastava

Partner

Adam Smith

Partner

Bejul Somaia

Partner

Rahul Taneja

Partner

Anoushka Vaswani

Partner

Rytis Vitkauskas

Partner

Jerry Ye

Partner, Data Platform

Connor Love

Partner

Peter Nieh

Partner and Co-Founder

John Thompson

Venture Partner

James Alcorn

Partner

Alex Taussig

Partner

Past deals in Risk Management

Nirvana Insurance

Series C in 2025
Nirvana Insurance is an AI-driven commercial trucking insurer that utilizes telematics data to enhance safety and reduce fleet costs. The company leverages artificial intelligence and telematics data to offer personalized insurance solutions that reward safe driving practices. Nirvana provides tailored policies for both fleet and non-fleet operators, including options such as auto liability, auto physical damage, general liability, and motor truck cargo coverage. By analyzing telematics data, Nirvana offers upfront discounts of up to 20% for safe driving behaviors. Their Safety Intelligence Platform delivers AI-powered insights to help fleets enhance safety and efficiency. Utilizing real-time data, Nirvana streamlines the claims process, enabling faster resolutions and reducing downtime for drivers.

Clutch Security

Series A in 2025
Clutch Security is a cybersecurity company that specializes in managing and protecting non-human identities within digital infrastructures. Its platform provides comprehensive visibility and lifecycle management for digital credentials, which helps organizations mitigate risks associated with these identities. Additionally, Clutch Security offers features such as incident response, threat detection and analysis, and asset management, enabling businesses to effectively manage security threats and enhance their overall cybersecurity posture. Through its solutions, Clutch Security aims to empower enterprises to respond to security incidents more effectively and safeguard their digital environments.

Clutch Security

Seed Round in 2024
Clutch Security is a cybersecurity company that specializes in managing and protecting non-human identities within digital infrastructures. Its platform provides comprehensive visibility and lifecycle management for digital credentials, which helps organizations mitigate risks associated with these identities. Additionally, Clutch Security offers features such as incident response, threat detection and analysis, and asset management, enabling businesses to effectively manage security threats and enhance their overall cybersecurity posture. Through its solutions, Clutch Security aims to empower enterprises to respond to security incidents more effectively and safeguard their digital environments.

Andalusia Labs

Series A in 2023
Andalusia Labs is focused on developing essential digital infrastructure tailored for internet markets, particularly in the realm of digital assets. The company offers a comprehensive platform that includes a security solution and risk management infrastructure specifically designed for the blockchain sector. This platform facilitates the management of significant amounts of digital assets, providing innovative companies worldwide with the tools necessary to navigate the complexities of risk associated with digital transactions. Through its offerings, Andalusia Labs aims to enhance the security and efficiency of the digital asset marketplace.

Nirvana Insurance

Series B in 2023
Nirvana Insurance is an AI-driven commercial trucking insurer that utilizes telematics data to enhance safety and reduce fleet costs. The company leverages artificial intelligence and telematics data to offer personalized insurance solutions that reward safe driving practices. Nirvana provides tailored policies for both fleet and non-fleet operators, including options such as auto liability, auto physical damage, general liability, and motor truck cargo coverage. By analyzing telematics data, Nirvana offers upfront discounts of up to 20% for safe driving behaviors. Their Safety Intelligence Platform delivers AI-powered insights to help fleets enhance safety and efficiency. Utilizing real-time data, Nirvana streamlines the claims process, enabling faster resolutions and reducing downtime for drivers.

Resilience

Series D in 2023
Resilience is a cybersecurity company focused on enhancing the cyber resilience of middle and large organizations against cyber threats. It offers a unique integration of cybersecurity, cyber insurance, and cyber risk management, supported by advanced risk quantification models. The company provides comprehensive cyber insurance solutions that are tailored to the specific needs of businesses, ensuring contract certainty and effective risk management. Resilience employs a proactive approach by analyzing threats and vulnerabilities in real-time, allowing organizations to prioritize significant risks and minimize false positives. Additionally, it offers action plans that address governance, user education, compliance, and security posture reviews, enabling clients to efficiently navigate their cyber policies and better understand their risk exposure. Founded by experts from military and intelligence backgrounds, Resilience aims to create a safer cyber environment for its clients, backed by prominent technology investment firms.

ForceField IO

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Our APIs integrate seamlessly into hardware or software platforms/apps to verify streaming media. Auditing meta data to ensure checks-and-balances for corporations, insurance companies, businesses owners, and news/media outlets. Insurance-backed industries can now fight against cyber risks with an additional tool of defense. Expert team with extensive startup experience, government cyber security, forensics, and security.

Fordefi

Seed Round in 2022
Fordefi operates a multi-party computation (MPC) wallet platform that serves as a Web3 gateway for institutions, facilitating secure connections to decentralized applications (dApps) across various blockchain networks. As the first institutional MPC wallet and security platform specifically designed for decentralized finance, Fordefi offers a range of features including MPC key management, self-service DeFi policy controls, and time-of-transaction smart contract insights. Additionally, the platform provides transaction simulation and risk alerts, enabling market participants to engage with decentralized finance securely and efficiently.

Nirvana Insurance

Series A in 2022
Nirvana Insurance is an AI-driven commercial trucking insurer that utilizes telematics data to enhance safety and reduce fleet costs. The company leverages artificial intelligence and telematics data to offer personalized insurance solutions that reward safe driving practices. Nirvana provides tailored policies for both fleet and non-fleet operators, including options such as auto liability, auto physical damage, general liability, and motor truck cargo coverage. By analyzing telematics data, Nirvana offers upfront discounts of up to 20% for safe driving behaviors. Their Safety Intelligence Platform delivers AI-powered insights to help fleets enhance safety and efficiency. Utilizing real-time data, Nirvana streamlines the claims process, enabling faster resolutions and reducing downtime for drivers.

CyCognito

Series C in 2021
CyCognito, founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, specializes in cyber security services with a focus on external cyber risk management. The company offers a cloud-based platform that conducts automated and continuous analysis of an organization's IT ecosystem, simulating the perspective of potential attackers. This approach enables organizations to identify vulnerabilities and prioritize remediation efforts effectively. By leveraging advanced machine learning and natural language processing, CyCognito provides organizations with insights into their security weaknesses, helping them understand their true risks and allocate resources efficiently. The platform aims to bridge cyber risk remediation across departments, enhancing overall security posture and reducing the likelihood of data breaches.

Resilience

Series C in 2021
Resilience is a cybersecurity company focused on enhancing the cyber resilience of middle and large organizations against cyber threats. It offers a unique integration of cybersecurity, cyber insurance, and cyber risk management, supported by advanced risk quantification models. The company provides comprehensive cyber insurance solutions that are tailored to the specific needs of businesses, ensuring contract certainty and effective risk management. Resilience employs a proactive approach by analyzing threats and vulnerabilities in real-time, allowing organizations to prioritize significant risks and minimize false positives. Additionally, it offers action plans that address governance, user education, compliance, and security posture reviews, enabling clients to efficiently navigate their cyber policies and better understand their risk exposure. Founded by experts from military and intelligence backgrounds, Resilience aims to create a safer cyber environment for its clients, backed by prominent technology investment firms.

Dorothy

Seed Round in 2021
Dorothy is transforming the disaster recovery landscape by utilizing data and technology to support individuals affected by disasters. The company focuses on empowering communities facing climate change through sustainable economic services, offering accurate flood zone maps to assess exposure and facilitate insurance comparisons. Dorothy connects individuals with dedicated recovery specialists to streamline the recovery process, ensuring that property owners affected by severe weather events receive timely recovery payments and services. By simplifying the flood insurance process, Dorothy aims to reduce risks for future homeowners and help individuals rebuild their lives swiftly and effectively.

At-Bay

Series D in 2021
At-Bay, Inc. specializes in providing cyber insurance and risk management services tailored to the needs of businesses navigating the digital landscape. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an additional research and development center in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company offers customized insurance policies that cover information privacy, network security, cyber extortion, financial fraud, and media content. At-Bay combines advanced technology with comprehensive risk assessment to empower businesses to address cyber risks effectively. The company serves nearly 40,000 businesses in the United States, protecting approximately $800 billion in collective revenue. In addition to its insurance offerings, At-Bay provides proactive risk management services and proprietary cybersecurity solutions, including managed detection and response services, to help clients manage and mitigate digital threats.

Bankuish

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Bankuish is a technology platform that enables gig workers and freelancers to utilize their work history data to establish their creditworthiness. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York City and Mexico City, the platform provides users with access to a marketplace of preapproved financial offers from national banks, tailored to their individual profiles. It also features AI-driven tools that assign alternative credit scores based on marketplace work history data, facilitating access to loans, insurance, and online payment solutions. By helping banks acquire new customers and effectively manage risk, Bankuish has successfully de-risked thousands of individuals while maintaining a default rate significantly lower than the industry average.

Nirvana Insurance

Seed Round in 2021
Nirvana Insurance is an AI-driven commercial trucking insurer that utilizes telematics data to enhance safety and reduce fleet costs. The company leverages artificial intelligence and telematics data to offer personalized insurance solutions that reward safe driving practices. Nirvana provides tailored policies for both fleet and non-fleet operators, including options such as auto liability, auto physical damage, general liability, and motor truck cargo coverage. By analyzing telematics data, Nirvana offers upfront discounts of up to 20% for safe driving behaviors. Their Safety Intelligence Platform delivers AI-powered insights to help fleets enhance safety and efficiency. Utilizing real-time data, Nirvana streamlines the claims process, enabling faster resolutions and reducing downtime for drivers.

At-Bay

Series C in 2020
At-Bay, Inc. specializes in providing cyber insurance and risk management services tailored to the needs of businesses navigating the digital landscape. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an additional research and development center in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company offers customized insurance policies that cover information privacy, network security, cyber extortion, financial fraud, and media content. At-Bay combines advanced technology with comprehensive risk assessment to empower businesses to address cyber risks effectively. The company serves nearly 40,000 businesses in the United States, protecting approximately $800 billion in collective revenue. In addition to its insurance offerings, At-Bay provides proactive risk management services and proprietary cybersecurity solutions, including managed detection and response services, to help clients manage and mitigate digital threats.

CyCognito

Series B in 2020
CyCognito, founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, specializes in cyber security services with a focus on external cyber risk management. The company offers a cloud-based platform that conducts automated and continuous analysis of an organization's IT ecosystem, simulating the perspective of potential attackers. This approach enables organizations to identify vulnerabilities and prioritize remediation efforts effectively. By leveraging advanced machine learning and natural language processing, CyCognito provides organizations with insights into their security weaknesses, helping them understand their true risks and allocate resources efficiently. The platform aims to bridge cyber risk remediation across departments, enhancing overall security posture and reducing the likelihood of data breaches.

At-Bay

Series B in 2020
At-Bay, Inc. specializes in providing cyber insurance and risk management services tailored to the needs of businesses navigating the digital landscape. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an additional research and development center in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company offers customized insurance policies that cover information privacy, network security, cyber extortion, financial fraud, and media content. At-Bay combines advanced technology with comprehensive risk assessment to empower businesses to address cyber risks effectively. The company serves nearly 40,000 businesses in the United States, protecting approximately $800 billion in collective revenue. In addition to its insurance offerings, At-Bay provides proactive risk management services and proprietary cybersecurity solutions, including managed detection and response services, to help clients manage and mitigate digital threats.

CyCognito

Series A in 2019
CyCognito, founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, specializes in cyber security services with a focus on external cyber risk management. The company offers a cloud-based platform that conducts automated and continuous analysis of an organization's IT ecosystem, simulating the perspective of potential attackers. This approach enables organizations to identify vulnerabilities and prioritize remediation efforts effectively. By leveraging advanced machine learning and natural language processing, CyCognito provides organizations with insights into their security weaknesses, helping them understand their true risks and allocate resources efficiently. The platform aims to bridge cyber risk remediation across departments, enhancing overall security posture and reducing the likelihood of data breaches.

Resilience

Venture Round in 2019
Resilience is a cybersecurity company focused on enhancing the cyber resilience of middle and large organizations against cyber threats. It offers a unique integration of cybersecurity, cyber insurance, and cyber risk management, supported by advanced risk quantification models. The company provides comprehensive cyber insurance solutions that are tailored to the specific needs of businesses, ensuring contract certainty and effective risk management. Resilience employs a proactive approach by analyzing threats and vulnerabilities in real-time, allowing organizations to prioritize significant risks and minimize false positives. Additionally, it offers action plans that address governance, user education, compliance, and security posture reviews, enabling clients to efficiently navigate their cyber policies and better understand their risk exposure. Founded by experts from military and intelligence backgrounds, Resilience aims to create a safer cyber environment for its clients, backed by prominent technology investment firms.

Arctic Wolf

Series B in 2018
Arctic Wolf Networks, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that provides security operations center-as-a-service to businesses, enabling them to manage and mitigate cyber risks effectively. The company offers a range of services, including cloud infrastructure monitoring, software-as-a-service application monitoring, vulnerability assessments, and account takeover risk detection. It also develops the Arctic Wolf Agent, a software tool that collects actionable intelligence from IT environments. Serving industries such as financial services, healthcare, and legal, Arctic Wolf employs a concierge security model, where its engineers work closely with clients to deliver tailored threat detection, response, and ongoing risk management. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, the company also has offices in Provo, Utah, and Waterloo, Canada.

At-Bay

Seed Round in 2017
At-Bay, Inc. specializes in providing cyber insurance and risk management services tailored to the needs of businesses navigating the digital landscape. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an additional research and development center in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company offers customized insurance policies that cover information privacy, network security, cyber extortion, financial fraud, and media content. At-Bay combines advanced technology with comprehensive risk assessment to empower businesses to address cyber risks effectively. The company serves nearly 40,000 businesses in the United States, protecting approximately $800 billion in collective revenue. In addition to its insurance offerings, At-Bay provides proactive risk management services and proprietary cybersecurity solutions, including managed detection and response services, to help clients manage and mitigate digital threats.

Comprehend Systems

Series C in 2017
Comprehend Systems, Inc. is a provider of cloud-based continuous quality solutions for clinical operations, founded in 2010 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. The company offers a suite of clinical intelligence applications designed to enhance the speed, safety, and quality of clinical trials. These solutions support clinical operations executives, data managers, and medical monitors by delivering actionable insights for portfolio monitoring, CRO oversight, risk management, and collaboration across various teams and sites. Comprehend's tools aim to streamline the clinical trial process, improving overall performance and risk assessment throughout the research lifecycle. As of August 2019, Comprehend operates as a subsidiary of Saama Technologies, Inc.

Comprehend Systems

Series B in 2014
Comprehend Systems, Inc. is a provider of cloud-based continuous quality solutions for clinical operations, founded in 2010 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. The company offers a suite of clinical intelligence applications designed to enhance the speed, safety, and quality of clinical trials. These solutions support clinical operations executives, data managers, and medical monitors by delivering actionable insights for portfolio monitoring, CRO oversight, risk management, and collaboration across various teams and sites. Comprehend's tools aim to streamline the clinical trial process, improving overall performance and risk assessment throughout the research lifecycle. As of August 2019, Comprehend operates as a subsidiary of Saama Technologies, Inc.

Zest AI

Series C in 2013
Zest AI develops an artificial intelligence-based platform aimed at improving credit underwriting processes. Founded in 2009 and based in Burbank, California, the company utilizes advanced machine learning techniques to analyze large volumes of credit data, enhancing approval rates while minimizing the risk of erroneous credit decisions. By providing a transparent and fair approach to credit, Zest AI enables lenders to make informed decisions, ultimately expanding access to credit for a broader range of consumers. The platform also includes features that help lenders comply with regulatory standards by explaining data modeling results and measuring business impact. Through its technology, Zest AI helps clients offer better loans at lower prices, thereby increasing revenue and automating compliance efforts.

Arctic Wolf

Venture Round in 2012
Arctic Wolf Networks, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that provides security operations center-as-a-service to businesses, enabling them to manage and mitigate cyber risks effectively. The company offers a range of services, including cloud infrastructure monitoring, software-as-a-service application monitoring, vulnerability assessments, and account takeover risk detection. It also develops the Arctic Wolf Agent, a software tool that collects actionable intelligence from IT environments. Serving industries such as financial services, healthcare, and legal, Arctic Wolf employs a concierge security model, where its engineers work closely with clients to deliver tailored threat detection, response, and ongoing risk management. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, the company also has offices in Provo, Utah, and Waterloo, Canada.

Zest AI

Series B in 2012
Zest AI develops an artificial intelligence-based platform aimed at improving credit underwriting processes. Founded in 2009 and based in Burbank, California, the company utilizes advanced machine learning techniques to analyze large volumes of credit data, enhancing approval rates while minimizing the risk of erroneous credit decisions. By providing a transparent and fair approach to credit, Zest AI enables lenders to make informed decisions, ultimately expanding access to credit for a broader range of consumers. The platform also includes features that help lenders comply with regulatory standards by explaining data modeling results and measuring business impact. Through its technology, Zest AI helps clients offer better loans at lower prices, thereby increasing revenue and automating compliance efforts.

Arctic Wolf

Series A in 2012
Arctic Wolf Networks, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that provides security operations center-as-a-service to businesses, enabling them to manage and mitigate cyber risks effectively. The company offers a range of services, including cloud infrastructure monitoring, software-as-a-service application monitoring, vulnerability assessments, and account takeover risk detection. It also develops the Arctic Wolf Agent, a software tool that collects actionable intelligence from IT environments. Serving industries such as financial services, healthcare, and legal, Arctic Wolf employs a concierge security model, where its engineers work closely with clients to deliver tailored threat detection, response, and ongoing risk management. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, the company also has offices in Provo, Utah, and Waterloo, Canada.

Zest AI

Series B in 2012
Zest AI develops an artificial intelligence-based platform aimed at improving credit underwriting processes. Founded in 2009 and based in Burbank, California, the company utilizes advanced machine learning techniques to analyze large volumes of credit data, enhancing approval rates while minimizing the risk of erroneous credit decisions. By providing a transparent and fair approach to credit, Zest AI enables lenders to make informed decisions, ultimately expanding access to credit for a broader range of consumers. The platform also includes features that help lenders comply with regulatory standards by explaining data modeling results and measuring business impact. Through its technology, Zest AI helps clients offer better loans at lower prices, thereby increasing revenue and automating compliance efforts.

Zest AI

Series A in 2011
Zest AI develops an artificial intelligence-based platform aimed at improving credit underwriting processes. Founded in 2009 and based in Burbank, California, the company utilizes advanced machine learning techniques to analyze large volumes of credit data, enhancing approval rates while minimizing the risk of erroneous credit decisions. By providing a transparent and fair approach to credit, Zest AI enables lenders to make informed decisions, ultimately expanding access to credit for a broader range of consumers. The platform also includes features that help lenders comply with regulatory standards by explaining data modeling results and measuring business impact. Through its technology, Zest AI helps clients offer better loans at lower prices, thereby increasing revenue and automating compliance efforts.

Data Sutram

Data Sutram is a developer of a Business-to-Business Software-as-a-Service platform that assists organizations in achieving growth through personalized, data-driven insights. The platform provides tools for merchant acquisition, risk management, and live market analysis, leveraging proprietary technology powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning. By offering these innovative solutions, Data Sutram enables businesses to enhance their planning and operational execution, leading to improved efficiency and the potential for hypergrowth. Through its interactive features, the platform supports marketing, sales, and risk professionals in making informed decisions to drive their organizations forward.
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