Lightspeed Israel

Lightspeed Israel, established in 2006, is a venture capital firm based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It invests in seed, early, and later-stage companies across the information technology and TMT sectors. The firm focuses on supporting innovative Israeli startups, providing capital and strategic guidance to accelerate their growth. Lightspeed Israel typically invests between $2 million to $25 million per company, with a particular interest in enterprise, health, fintech, and consumer sectors. It manages multiple funds, including Lightspeed Venture Partners IX and Lightspeed India Partners I & II, to support its investment activities in Israel and India.

Shaurya Aggarwal

Partner

Vaibhav Agrawal

Venture Partner

James Alcorn

Partner

Saqib Awan

Partner

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner and Head of Gaming

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Luke Beseda

Partner

Akshay Bhushan

Venture Partner

Taggart Bonham

Partner

Ashley Brasier

Partner

Wei Cai

Partner

Guru Chahal

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Sun Daniel

Partner

Amish Desai

Partner

Sebastian Duesterhoeft

Partner

Barry Eggers

Co-Founder and Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

James Ephrati

Partner

Faraz Fatemi

Partner, Consumer

Jack Fowler

Partner

Aaron Frank

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

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Galym Imanbayev MD

Partner

Nnamdi Iregbulem

Partner

Raviraj Jain

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

Pinn Lawjindakul

Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Will Leas

Partner

Jeremy Liew

Partner

Connor Love

Partner

John Luongo

Venture Partner

Natalie Luu

Partner

Naveed Matinfar

Partner

Ravi Mhatre

Co-Founder and Partner

James Mi

Founding Partner

Andrew Moley

Operating Partner and CFO

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Peter Nieh

Co-Founder and Partner, Enterprise

Justin Overdorff

Partner

Zac Pan

Associate Partner

Apoorva Pandhi

Associate

Krish Parikh

Partner of Business Services

Nicole Quinn

Partner

Adrian Nicholas Radu

Partner

Alexander Schmitt

Partner

Shan Shan

Partner

Justin Shen

Partner

Justin Shen

Partner

Shuvi Shrivastava

Partner

Ishaan Preet Singh

Investor

Ajay Sudan

Venture Partner

Sydney Sykes

Partner

Rahul Taneja

Partner

John Thompson

Venture Partner

Anoushka Vaswani

Partner

Jason Wang

Partner

Nathan Wang

Vice President

Nathan Wu

Partner, Growth

Mark Xu

Partner

Cici Yang

Vice President

Jerry Ye

Partner, Data Platform

Haowei Zhai

Vice President

Issac Zhang

Vice President

Ju Zhang

Executive Director

Gavin Zhu

Partner

Hu Peipei

Investment Manager

Past deals in Sales Automation

Avarra

Seed Round in 2024
Avarra is a technology company specializing in enterprise avatar and AI simulation. Its primary product is a 3D AI avatar, trained on web-meeting transcripts and sales best practices, that mimics client sales conversations realistically. This platform aims to enhance sales professionals' skills by providing immersive, virtual sales meeting simulations and in-depth coaching, accelerating their productivity growth from quarters to weeks without compromising potential prospects.

Thena

Seed Round in 2023
Thena is a customer engagement platform that focuses on enhancing B2B communication through messaging applications like Slack and Teams. Founded by Ankit Saxena, Mike Molinet, Govind Kavaturi, and Unmukt Raizada, the platform assists companies in acquiring, servicing, and growing their customer base by automating communications and integrating with internal tools. Thena enables businesses to manage customer interactions more effectively, streamline escalations, and analyze customer behavior. By consolidating communication channels and providing valuable analytics, Thena aims to redefine how companies engage with their customers across these popular messaging platforms. Its client roster includes notable names such as Branch, Embrace, Mixpanel, WorkRamp, and Spotdraft, and the company is supported by various venture capital firms.

Spiff

Series C in 2023
Spiff Inc. is a software company that specializes in sales commission automation through its SaaS platform. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sandy, Utah, with an office in Mountain View, California, Spiff offers a comprehensive solution that allows organizations to design, manage, and optimize their sales commission plans. The platform enables users to create and modify commission structures, automate data integration from various systems such as ERP and payroll, and provide sales teams with personalized dashboards to track their performance. Spiff’s software streamlines complex commission processes, enhances accuracy by eliminating errors, and supports advanced features like modeling new plans and generating detailed payroll reports. The company primarily serves finance and sales operations, sales and marketing teams, managers, and executives, facilitating improved sales performance through real-time insights and automation.

Tome

Series B in 2023
Tome is a company that transforms the sales process for teams by utilizing custom language models to enhance productivity at every stage of sales. The platform aids sales representatives in building qualified pipelines through detailed account research, value hypotheses, and automated outreach. It accelerates existing sales efforts by providing automated call summaries, updated account plans, CRM synchronization, and auto-generated marketing collateral. Additionally, Tome offers insights that help optimize sales strategies, enabling teams to identify effective messaging and features that lead to quicker, larger deals. By streamlining repetitive tasks, Tome allows account executives to focus more on customer interactions, while sales leaders benefit from improved pipeline quality and deal closure rates. Revenue operations leaders can trust that their systems are functioning efficiently, maximizing the potential of their sales processes.

Rattle

Series A in 2022
Rattle is a company that specializes in developing integration technology for Salesforce, facilitating seamless interaction between systems and users within platforms such as Slack and Teams. This revenue orchestration platform caters to all customer-facing departments, allowing sales representatives to log calls, track key metrics, and update opportunities with ease. Additionally, it enables account executives and sales development representatives to maintain customer relationship management systems while providing real-time visibility into pipeline reports. This functionality empowers marketing professionals to focus on engaging with customers rather than managing internal processes. Rattle was co-founded in 2020 by Sahil Aggarwal, Apoorva Verma, and Milan Singh.

Clickup

Series C in 2021
ClickUp is a workplace productivity platform that provides customizable solutions for various departments within organizations. Founded in 2017 by Zeb Evans and Alex Yurkowski, the company is headquartered in San Diego, California. ClickUp's platform enables teams to plan, organize, and collaborate on projects effectively, offering features such as task management, documents, wikis, chat, and integrations with other popular tools. With a focus on enhancing team productivity, ClickUp includes functionalities like reminders, goals, and calendars to help team members stay synchronized and achieve their objectives. The platform is available through a subscription model, making it accessible to a wide range of users.

Rattle

Seed Round in 2021
Rattle is a company that specializes in developing integration technology for Salesforce, facilitating seamless interaction between systems and users within platforms such as Slack and Teams. This revenue orchestration platform caters to all customer-facing departments, allowing sales representatives to log calls, track key metrics, and update opportunities with ease. Additionally, it enables account executives and sales development representatives to maintain customer relationship management systems while providing real-time visibility into pipeline reports. This functionality empowers marketing professionals to focus on engaging with customers rather than managing internal processes. Rattle was co-founded in 2020 by Sahil Aggarwal, Apoorva Verma, and Milan Singh.

Seismic Software

Series G in 2021
Seismic is a leading provider of sales enablement solutions that assist organizations in enhancing customer engagement and driving revenue growth. Its flagship product, the Seismic Enablement Cloud, is a comprehensive platform designed to equip customer-facing teams with essential skills, content, tools, and insights necessary for success. By automating the creation of personalized sales materials and leveraging data to identify effective content, Seismic improves sales performance by increasing close rates and facilitating larger deals. The company serves a diverse clientele, ranging from large enterprises to startups and small businesses, with over 2,000 organizations worldwide relying on Seismic to meet their enablement needs.

People.ai

Series D in 2021
People.ai is an artificial intelligence platform based in San Francisco that focuses on enhancing enterprise revenue operations through automation and predictive analytics. Its solution captures customer contacts, activity, and engagement data to provide actionable insights for sales, marketing, and customer success teams. The platform empowers sales leaders by offering comprehensive visibility into sales activities, enabling effective team management and revenue growth. Additionally, it delivers sales performance analytics, personalized coaching, and pipeline reviews. Marketers benefit from People.ai by gaining clear visibility into customer interactions, allowing for better-targeted campaigns and enhanced return on investment. Furthermore, customer success teams utilize the platform to engage effectively with clients, aligning their activities with the right opportunities and managing support costs efficiently. Overall, People.ai leverages advanced AI technology to transform business activities and drive predictable growth for its clients.

Yellow.ai

Series C in 2021
Yellow.ai is a global leader in enterprise-grade conversational AI, empowering businesses to engage customers and employees at scale. Trusted by over 1000 enterprises across 85 countries, including prominent brands like Domino's, Sephora, and Hyundai, Yellow.ai's no-code/low-code platform delivers human-like interactions through dynamic AI agents. This enhances customer satisfaction and boosts employee engagement across various channels. Recognized by leading industry analysts, the company has raised over $102M from top-tier investors and operates in six countries.

Spiff

Series B in 2021
Spiff Inc. is a software company that specializes in sales commission automation through its SaaS platform. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sandy, Utah, with an office in Mountain View, California, Spiff offers a comprehensive solution that allows organizations to design, manage, and optimize their sales commission plans. The platform enables users to create and modify commission structures, automate data integration from various systems such as ERP and payroll, and provide sales teams with personalized dashboards to track their performance. Spiff’s software streamlines complex commission processes, enhances accuracy by eliminating errors, and supports advanced features like modeling new plans and generating detailed payroll reports. The company primarily serves finance and sales operations, sales and marketing teams, managers, and executives, facilitating improved sales performance through real-time insights and automation.

Flockjay

Series A in 2021
Flockjay, Inc. is an online sales academy based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2018. The company specializes in providing hands-on training for aspiring sales professionals, focusing on both inbound and outbound sales techniques. Their curriculum includes lead qualification, time management, discovery calls, and multi-channel outreach, as well as practical skills like crafting persuasive emails and handling objections. Flockjay also offers modern sales tools training and additional services such as resume workshops, interview coaching, and networking opportunities. Committed to promoting diversity and accessibility in the tech industry, Flockjay connects job seekers from underrepresented communities with high-paying job opportunities at leading companies, ensuring they receive final round interviews. Through its remote learning platform, Flockjay aims to empower individuals to achieve upward mobility in the tech sector.

Seismic Software

Series F in 2020
Seismic is a leading provider of sales enablement solutions that assist organizations in enhancing customer engagement and driving revenue growth. Its flagship product, the Seismic Enablement Cloud, is a comprehensive platform designed to equip customer-facing teams with essential skills, content, tools, and insights necessary for success. By automating the creation of personalized sales materials and leveraging data to identify effective content, Seismic improves sales performance by increasing close rates and facilitating larger deals. The company serves a diverse clientele, ranging from large enterprises to startups and small businesses, with over 2,000 organizations worldwide relying on Seismic to meet their enablement needs.

Yellow.ai

Series B in 2020
Yellow.ai is a global leader in enterprise-grade conversational AI, empowering businesses to engage customers and employees at scale. Trusted by over 1000 enterprises across 85 countries, including prominent brands like Domino's, Sephora, and Hyundai, Yellow.ai's no-code/low-code platform delivers human-like interactions through dynamic AI agents. This enhances customer satisfaction and boosts employee engagement across various channels. Recognized by leading industry analysts, the company has raised over $102M from top-tier investors and operates in six countries.

Sleek

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Sleek is a deep learning startup that specializes in enhancing customer experiences by reducing wait times through its innovative AI-based platform. By integrating various data sources, the company's patent-pending technology offers virtual queuing solutions that allow customers to avoid long lines while enabling businesses, such as popular merchants and event organizers, to generate additional revenue streams. The platform accurately assesses real wait times and creates a dynamically priced virtual priority lane, requiring no additional hardware or workflow changes. Serving over 20,000 businesses, Sleek is backed by prominent investors and was founded by a team of Forbes U30 honorees, including former engineers from Google and Stanford. With a dedicated team of eight, Sleek aims to transform how customers interact with service environments.

Flockjay

Seed Round in 2019
Flockjay, Inc. is an online sales academy based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2018. The company specializes in providing hands-on training for aspiring sales professionals, focusing on both inbound and outbound sales techniques. Their curriculum includes lead qualification, time management, discovery calls, and multi-channel outreach, as well as practical skills like crafting persuasive emails and handling objections. Flockjay also offers modern sales tools training and additional services such as resume workshops, interview coaching, and networking opportunities. Committed to promoting diversity and accessibility in the tech industry, Flockjay connects job seekers from underrepresented communities with high-paying job opportunities at leading companies, ensuring they receive final round interviews. Through its remote learning platform, Flockjay aims to empower individuals to achieve upward mobility in the tech sector.

Yellow.ai

Series A in 2019
Yellow.ai is a global leader in enterprise-grade conversational AI, empowering businesses to engage customers and employees at scale. Trusted by over 1000 enterprises across 85 countries, including prominent brands like Domino's, Sephora, and Hyundai, Yellow.ai's no-code/low-code platform delivers human-like interactions through dynamic AI agents. This enhances customer satisfaction and boosts employee engagement across various channels. Recognized by leading industry analysts, the company has raised over $102M from top-tier investors and operates in six countries.

People.ai

Series C in 2019
People.ai is an artificial intelligence platform based in San Francisco that focuses on enhancing enterprise revenue operations through automation and predictive analytics. Its solution captures customer contacts, activity, and engagement data to provide actionable insights for sales, marketing, and customer success teams. The platform empowers sales leaders by offering comprehensive visibility into sales activities, enabling effective team management and revenue growth. Additionally, it delivers sales performance analytics, personalized coaching, and pipeline reviews. Marketers benefit from People.ai by gaining clear visibility into customer interactions, allowing for better-targeted campaigns and enhanced return on investment. Furthermore, customer success teams utilize the platform to engage effectively with clients, aligning their activities with the right opportunities and managing support costs efficiently. Overall, People.ai leverages advanced AI technology to transform business activities and drive predictable growth for its clients.

Seismic Software

Series E in 2018
Seismic is a leading provider of sales enablement solutions that assist organizations in enhancing customer engagement and driving revenue growth. Its flagship product, the Seismic Enablement Cloud, is a comprehensive platform designed to equip customer-facing teams with essential skills, content, tools, and insights necessary for success. By automating the creation of personalized sales materials and leveraging data to identify effective content, Seismic improves sales performance by increasing close rates and facilitating larger deals. The company serves a diverse clientele, ranging from large enterprises to startups and small businesses, with over 2,000 organizations worldwide relying on Seismic to meet their enablement needs.

People.ai

Series B in 2018
People.ai is an artificial intelligence platform based in San Francisco that focuses on enhancing enterprise revenue operations through automation and predictive analytics. Its solution captures customer contacts, activity, and engagement data to provide actionable insights for sales, marketing, and customer success teams. The platform empowers sales leaders by offering comprehensive visibility into sales activities, enabling effective team management and revenue growth. Additionally, it delivers sales performance analytics, personalized coaching, and pipeline reviews. Marketers benefit from People.ai by gaining clear visibility into customer interactions, allowing for better-targeted campaigns and enhanced return on investment. Furthermore, customer success teams utilize the platform to engage effectively with clients, aligning their activities with the right opportunities and managing support costs efficiently. Overall, People.ai leverages advanced AI technology to transform business activities and drive predictable growth for its clients.

People.ai

Series A in 2017
People.ai is an artificial intelligence platform based in San Francisco that focuses on enhancing enterprise revenue operations through automation and predictive analytics. Its solution captures customer contacts, activity, and engagement data to provide actionable insights for sales, marketing, and customer success teams. The platform empowers sales leaders by offering comprehensive visibility into sales activities, enabling effective team management and revenue growth. Additionally, it delivers sales performance analytics, personalized coaching, and pipeline reviews. Marketers benefit from People.ai by gaining clear visibility into customer interactions, allowing for better-targeted campaigns and enhanced return on investment. Furthermore, customer success teams utilize the platform to engage effectively with clients, aligning their activities with the right opportunities and managing support costs efficiently. Overall, People.ai leverages advanced AI technology to transform business activities and drive predictable growth for its clients.

EverString

Series B in 2015
EverString, established in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, specializes in a predictive analytics platform designed for B2B companies. Its cloud-based SaaS solution identifies and engages customer prospects by tracking and analyzing user data patterns, developing custom predictive models, and monitoring prospect behaviors to reveal intent. The platform offers predictive scoring, demand generation, and advertisement targeting, aiding clients in building new pipelines and enhancing conversion rates. As of November 2020, EverString operates as a subsidiary of ZoomInfo Technologies Inc.

EverString

Series A in 2014
EverString, established in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, specializes in a predictive analytics platform designed for B2B companies. Its cloud-based SaaS solution identifies and engages customer prospects by tracking and analyzing user data patterns, developing custom predictive models, and monitoring prospect behaviors to reveal intent. The platform offers predictive scoring, demand generation, and advertisement targeting, aiding clients in building new pipelines and enhancing conversion rates. As of November 2020, EverString operates as a subsidiary of ZoomInfo Technologies Inc.

Influitive

Series A in 2012
Influitive Corporation, established in 2010 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in Menlo Park, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, specializes in advocate marketing software solutions for B2B software and technology firms. Its flagship product, AdvocateHub, facilitates the creation of advocate communities, enabling customers, partners, and employees to engage in challenges such as referrals, reviews, and reference calls. This software integrates with Salesforce.com for activity tracking and is available via web portal or mobile app. Influitive also offers consulting services, providing coaching and training to help businesses implement and advance their advocate marketing strategies.

Influitive

Series A in 2012
Influitive Corporation, established in 2010 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in Menlo Park, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, specializes in advocate marketing software solutions for B2B software and technology firms. Its flagship product, AdvocateHub, facilitates the creation of advocate communities, enabling customers, partners, and employees to engage in challenges such as referrals, reviews, and reference calls. This software integrates with Salesforce.com for activity tracking and is available via web portal or mobile app. Influitive also offers consulting services, providing coaching and training to help businesses implement and advance their advocate marketing strategies.

Influitive

Seed Round in 2012
Influitive Corporation, established in 2010 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in Menlo Park, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, specializes in advocate marketing software solutions for B2B software and technology firms. Its flagship product, AdvocateHub, facilitates the creation of advocate communities, enabling customers, partners, and employees to engage in challenges such as referrals, reviews, and reference calls. This software integrates with Salesforce.com for activity tracking and is available via web portal or mobile app. Influitive also offers consulting services, providing coaching and training to help businesses implement and advance their advocate marketing strategies.

Influitive

Seed Round in 2012
Influitive Corporation, established in 2010 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in Menlo Park, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, specializes in advocate marketing software solutions for B2B software and technology firms. Its flagship product, AdvocateHub, facilitates the creation of advocate communities, enabling customers, partners, and employees to engage in challenges such as referrals, reviews, and reference calls. This software integrates with Salesforce.com for activity tracking and is available via web portal or mobile app. Influitive also offers consulting services, providing coaching and training to help businesses implement and advance their advocate marketing strategies.

SayHired

Seed Round in 2007
SayHired facilitates the recruiting process by efficiently screening candidates for their sales abilities. Candidates apply to positions by recording responses to pitch prompts and/or question sets curated by recruiters. The responses are analyzed by our patent-pending engine for the qualities that the recruiter feels are most important to the position. Responses are ranked on a scale of 100 for each individual characteristic. Some examples of characteristics used to determine if a candidate is a good salesperson are empathy, friendliness, persuasiveness, or knowledgeability, among others. Once the scores have been released, both the candidate and the recruiter are able to view them. This way the candidate can learn from their previous applications to continually improve their sales abilities, while the recruiter can choose the best candidate for the position based on their scores. With SayHired, job applications go beyond the resume.

Nextance

Series E in 2006
Nextance, Inc. is an enterprise software company based in Austin, Texas, specializing in contract and proposal management solutions tailored for B2B relationships. Founded in 2000, the company focuses on enhancing the standardization, visibility, and control of critical documents that define business relationships. Its software products support various functions including sales operations, procurement, and contract management, offering features such as automatic notifications, status tracking, and contract reviews. Additionally, Nextance provides business impact assessments, process consulting, data migration, implementation, training, technical support, and customer services to ensure effective usage of its solutions. As of 2007, Nextance operates as a subsidiary of Versata Inc.

Partnerware

Series B in 2000
Partnerware maximizes speed-to-market™ for channel-focused companies with the leading B2B Partner Relationship Management (PRM) solution, delivering measurable channel results in Internet time. As a multi-channel sales approach becomes critical in delivering value-added solutions to the marketplace, the need for PRM has grown dramatically. Partnerware provides distinct benefits for companies looking to leverage the power of indirect - Faster channel execution (from channel recruiting to product launches) - Measurable results from partner programs, channel marketing funds, and partner sales efforts - Increased market responsiveness to leap frog and stay ahead of competition - Easy implementation by deploying Web-based Partner Relationship Management solutions in Internet time
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