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

Associate Partner

James Alcorn

Partner

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner and Head of Gaming

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Past deals in Robotics

Dexterity

Venture Round in 2025
Dexterity Inc develops robot dexterity solutions for logistics, warehousing, and supply chain applications. The company offers a robotics as a service model that enables businesses to integrate robotics into their operations. Its flagship DexR is a two-armed robot designed for tasks such as truck loading and material handling, equipped with machine vision and force sensing. The company combines artificial intelligence, software, and hardware in a platform to deliver high productivity, precision, and safety in industrial environments, allowing clients to delegate repetitive tasks to robots and augment human potential.

X Square

Seed Round in 2025
X Square is a company focused on developing universal embodied large models for robots, aiming to create a universal brain-cerebellum system that offers comprehensive capabilities from perception to action.

RobCo

Series B in 2024
RobCo develops modular industrial robots designed for automation in manufacturing. Their innovative platform improves productivity, reduces costs, and enhances product quality by adapting to diverse applications and integrating seamlessly into existing production lines.

DAISCH

Series A in 2022
DAISCH, established in 2015 and headquartered in Shanghai, China, specializes in high-precision motion and position sensing systems and tool chains for autonomous driving. The company offers industrial unmanned aerial vehicles and autonomous vehicles, leveraging technologies such as carrier phase differential, inertial navigation, and machine vision to provide precise positioning and environmental information for self-driving vehicles across varied road conditions.

CenoBots (Cenozoic Robotics)

Series A in 2022
Cenozoic Robotics is a global leading provider for the cleaning industry. Founded in 2021, Cenozoic Robotics is headquartered in Singapore with offices in Hong Kong and Hangzhou. Employing knowledge and experience in L4 autonomous driving technology, the Cenozoic team realized the potential to provide customers with faster service and higher quality products than currently on the world market. With this goal in mind, Michael Wang, the founder and the CEO of Cenozoic Robotics, and his team established the company and entered the cleaning industry dedicated to renewing cleaning services with state-of-the-art technologies. Up to now, Cenozoic robots have been deployed at multiple sites in Singapore, Japan, and South Korea.

Kodiak Robotics

Series B in 2021
Founded in 2018, Kodiak Robotics specializes in developing autonomous technology for long-haul trucking. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company focuses on creating safe and efficient self-driving trucks equipped with advanced sensor fusion systems.

Dexterity

Series B in 2021
Dexterity Inc develops robot dexterity solutions for logistics, warehousing, and supply chain applications. The company offers a robotics as a service model that enables businesses to integrate robotics into their operations. Its flagship DexR is a two-armed robot designed for tasks such as truck loading and material handling, equipped with machine vision and force sensing. The company combines artificial intelligence, software, and hardware in a platform to deliver high productivity, precision, and safety in industrial environments, allowing clients to delegate repetitive tasks to robots and augment human potential.

Robosen

Series B in 2021
Robosen (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., founded in 2008 and headquartered in Beijing, China, specializes in the development and manufacturing of intelligent robotics. The company offers a variety of products, including educational robots, vending robots, and smart fighting robots, aimed at enhancing convenience in daily life. One of its notable innovations, the "Pathfinder Pioneer," features the ability to store up to 1 million action programs and can transform between a human and a jeep shape. This product also supports mobile app control and visual 3D programming via a PC. Robosen's technology encompasses advanced features such as digital electric transmission, servo motors, artificial joints, and body language recognition, positioning the company as a key player in the consumer robotics market.

Hesai Technology

Series D in 2021
Founded in 2014, Hesai Technology specializes in designing and manufacturing LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) solutions. Its products facilitate advanced driver assistance systems, autonomous vehicles, and robotics across various industries worldwide.

Standard Robots

Series B in 2020
Standard Robots is a company based in Baoan, Guangdong, specializing in the research, development, manufacturing, and marketing of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and Robot Internet of Things (RIoT) software systems. Established in 2016, the company serves industries such as semiconductors, auto parts, and energy by offering standardized solutions that enhance the flexibility and agility of mobile robots in manufacturing environments. Its focus on scalable applications and predictable outcomes allows clients to achieve intelligent logistics transformation through repeatable algorithm scenarios. By providing dedicated services, Standard Robots aims to improve operational efficiency and innovation in the sectors it serves.

Dexterity

Series A in 2020
Dexterity Inc develops robot dexterity solutions for logistics, warehousing, and supply chain applications. The company offers a robotics as a service model that enables businesses to integrate robotics into their operations. Its flagship DexR is a two-armed robot designed for tasks such as truck loading and material handling, equipped with machine vision and force sensing. The company combines artificial intelligence, software, and hardware in a platform to deliver high productivity, precision, and safety in industrial environments, allowing clients to delegate repetitive tasks to robots and augment human potential.

Hesai Technology

Series C in 2020
Founded in 2014, Hesai Technology specializes in designing and manufacturing LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) solutions. Its products facilitate advanced driver assistance systems, autonomous vehicles, and robotics across various industries worldwide.

Cognicept Systems

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Cognicept Systems specializes in hybrid robotics artificial intelligence, offering innovative solutions through its Smart+ telerobotic intervention technology and remote robot pilots. The company focuses on enhancing the deployment of robotic systems by addressing the gap between technological capabilities and customer needs. Cognicept's platform provides supervised autonomy tools that ensure reliability in unpredictable applications, thereby expanding the operational potential of robots. This technology is particularly valuable during the prototyping and testing phases of robotics development, allowing teams to avoid the complexities of creating these tools in-house. By delivering a robust operating system for remote intervention, Cognicept empowers clients to efficiently manage tasks in unstructured environments.

Aurora

Series B in 2019
Aurora Innovation develops advanced software and hardware products for self-driving vehicles, aiming to transform the movement of people and goods. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company operates additional offices in the Bay Area, Bozeman, Pittsburgh, and Dallas. Its primary offering, the Aurora Driver, is a scalable self-driving system capable of operating various vehicle types, including freight-hauling trucks and ride-hailing passenger vehicles. This technology supports Aurora's driver-as-a-service products, Aurora Horizon and Aurora Connect, catering to trucking and ride-hailing sectors. By integrating rigorous engineering with applied machine learning, Aurora Innovation seeks to create a comprehensive transportation ecosystem that connects automakers, logistics services, and mobility providers.

Kodiak Robotics

Series A in 2018
Founded in 2018, Kodiak Robotics specializes in developing autonomous technology for long-haul trucking. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company focuses on creating safe and efficient self-driving trucks equipped with advanced sensor fusion systems.

Xpeng Motors

Series A in 2017
Xpeng Motors is a Chinese electric vehicle and technology company that specializes in the design and manufacture of smart cars. The company emphasizes local market needs and prioritizes consumer experience, integrating advanced autonomous driving features and internet-connected technologies into its vehicles. This approach aims to enhance the overall functionality and appeal of their cars, making them more than just traditional vehicles. Additionally, Xpeng Motors has a subsidiary, Xpeng Robotics, which focuses on developing smart robots as part of its broader mobility ecosystem.

Citadel Defense

Series A in 2017
Citadel Defense Company, established in 2016 and headquartered in National City, California, specializes in developing and manufacturing counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS). The company offers an automated, modular drone defense solution that employs proprietary machine learning algorithms to detect and mitigate unauthorized drone threats. Citadel's team comprises experts from commercial and military drone industries, enabling them to deliver effective solutions tailored for various clients, including the U.S. Department of Defense, Homeland Security, and other government agencies. Their systems provide multi-layered protection models with escalating countermeasures, ensuring airspace monitoring, threat detection, and mitigation without interfering with common communications.

Hesai Technology

Series B in 2017
Founded in 2014, Hesai Technology specializes in designing and manufacturing LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) solutions. Its products facilitate advanced driver assistance systems, autonomous vehicles, and robotics across various industries worldwide.

Plus

Seed Round in 2016
Plus is a global technology company headquartered in Silicon Valley that develops highly automated and fully autonomous driving solutions. Its open‑autonomy platform powers commercial vehicles in the United States and Germany and is used by leading automakers, fleets, and technology partners worldwide. The company focuses on making driving safer, more comfortable, and more sustainable, and it has been recognized by Forbes, Fast Company, Insider, CES, and AUVSI for its innovative technology. Plus also builds AI‑driven autonomous driving software for trucks, leveraging large AI models and generative AI to enable safe, affordable, and scalable deployment of autonomous freight vehicles.

A.I. Nemo

Series B in 2016
A.I. Nemo develops hardware, home appliances, and a family companion robot. A.I. Nemo was established in March 2014 and is an innovative company dedicated to developing Internet hardware and smart home appliances. The company at the beginning of the creation of the speed of light to get the vibration and innovation workshop A round of investment.

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.

A.I. Nemo

Series A in 2014
A.I. Nemo develops hardware, home appliances, and a family companion robot. A.I. Nemo was established in March 2014 and is an innovative company dedicated to developing Internet hardware and smart home appliances. The company at the beginning of the creation of the speed of light to get the vibration and innovation workshop A round of investment.

Differential Robotics

Differential Robotics is a robotics company specializing in the research, design, and development of intelligent, unmanned aerial systems. These systems are designed for autonomous exploration and inspection in complex, hazardous, and confined environments, such as those found in the mining industry. The company's platform integrates multi-sensor fusion for precise localization, real-time obstacle detection and avoidance, efficient exploration of unknown areas, and high-precision three-dimensional reconstruction. This enables mining industry operators to conduct safe, efficient, and accurate inspections of regions like goafs and ore passes.
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