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 MD

Partner

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Nnamdi Iregbulem

Partner

Raviraj Jain

Partner

Arif Janmohamed

Partner

Julie Kainz

Partner

Francis Kao

Partner

Ansaf Kareem

Partner

Alex Kayyal

Partner

Issac Kim

Partner

Will Kohler

Partner

Harsha Kumar

Associate Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Pinn 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

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

Ju Zhang

Executive Director

Issac Zhang

Vice President

Gavin Zhu

Partner

Hu Peipei

Investment Manager

Past deals in Search Engine

Glean

Series E in 2024
Glean is a company that specializes in AI-based search engine software aimed at enhancing data accessibility within enterprises. Its primary offering, the Workplace Search platform, integrates with various internal data sources and applications to facilitate efficient information retrieval. By leveraging advanced search technologies, retrieval augmented generation, and large language models, Glean's software delivers personalized answers to employees' queries, enabling them to quickly locate relevant data points based on specific keywords. This innovative approach helps organizations streamline their operations by ensuring that employees can easily access the information they need to make informed decisions.

Meta Sota

Venture Round in 2024
Meta Sota is a technology company that specializes in smart search engines for lawyers. Using artificial intelligence technology to create useful AI office tools for legal practitioners and other text workers, the legal industry and other text workers will be greatly improved. Work efficiency, allowing users to take advantage of technology's convenience. "Mita Translation" is a Chinese-English artificial intelligence translation software that focuses on legal and official documents. To complete semantic analysis and semantic association, use a self-developed heterogeneous unstructured data engine.

Glean

Series D in 2024
Glean is a company that specializes in AI-based search engine software aimed at enhancing data accessibility within enterprises. Its primary offering, the Workplace Search platform, integrates with various internal data sources and applications to facilitate efficient information retrieval. By leveraging advanced search technologies, retrieval augmented generation, and large language models, Glean's software delivers personalized answers to employees' queries, enabling them to quickly locate relevant data points based on specific keywords. This innovative approach helps organizations streamline their operations by ensuring that employees can easily access the information they need to make informed decisions.

Marqo

Series A in 2024
Marqo is a vector search platform that leverages advanced machine learning capabilities to enhance the search process. By managing the complete workflow from vector creation to storage and retrieval, Marqo enables seamless integration of multimodal and multilingual search through a unified API. The platform features a proprietary inference engine that efficiently transforms unstructured data into vectors, facilitating real-time, relevant search results. It supports various search modes, including image-to-image, image-to-text, and text-to-image, making it adaptable for diverse data storage and retrieval needs. Marqo's technology combines artificial intelligence with scalable cloud infrastructure, positioning it as a forward-thinking solution in the evolving landscape of search technology.

Glean

Series C in 2022
Glean is a company that specializes in AI-based search engine software aimed at enhancing data accessibility within enterprises. Its primary offering, the Workplace Search platform, integrates with various internal data sources and applications to facilitate efficient information retrieval. By leveraging advanced search technologies, retrieval augmented generation, and large language models, Glean's software delivers personalized answers to employees' queries, enabling them to quickly locate relevant data points based on specific keywords. This innovative approach helps organizations streamline their operations by ensuring that employees can easily access the information they need to make informed decisions.

Scopio

Venture Round in 2021
Scopio, LLC is an innovative image search engine and licensing platform based in New York, founded in 2015. It connects photographers and visual artists with potential customers, forming a vast online community of diverse talent from 190 countries. The platform allows users to license trending images and videos from social media, enabling companies, brands, non-governmental organizations, and event organizers to build libraries of visual user-generated content. Scopio utilizes artificial intelligence to streamline the process of searching for, licensing, and publishing images and videos, while also simplifying the copyright management of these assets. By facilitating the connection between artists and clients, Scopio aims to increase accessibility to quality visual content on a global scale.

Glean

Series B in 2021
Glean is a company that specializes in AI-based search engine software aimed at enhancing data accessibility within enterprises. Its primary offering, the Workplace Search platform, integrates with various internal data sources and applications to facilitate efficient information retrieval. By leveraging advanced search technologies, retrieval augmented generation, and large language models, Glean's software delivers personalized answers to employees' queries, enabling them to quickly locate relevant data points based on specific keywords. This innovative approach helps organizations streamline their operations by ensuring that employees can easily access the information they need to make informed decisions.

Dong Diaodu

Series A in 2019
Dong Diaodu provides the logistics industry with optimized delivery solutions of smart dispatch and optimized route based on “key dynamic cellular algorithm+ bump mapping + optimized smart search engine+ AI”.

Glean

Series A in 2019
Glean is a company that specializes in AI-based search engine software aimed at enhancing data accessibility within enterprises. Its primary offering, the Workplace Search platform, integrates with various internal data sources and applications to facilitate efficient information retrieval. By leveraging advanced search technologies, retrieval augmented generation, and large language models, Glean's software delivers personalized answers to employees' queries, enabling them to quickly locate relevant data points based on specific keywords. This innovative approach helps organizations streamline their operations by ensuring that employees can easily access the information they need to make informed decisions.

Giphy

Series C in 2016
Giphy, Inc. is an online platform that specializes in the search, sharing, and discovery of animated graphics interchange formats (GIFs). Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, the company offers a comprehensive database of GIFs across various categories including emotions, food, animals, and pop culture. It enables users to easily browse and share these animated graphics through social media channels. Giphy also supports creative input by allowing users to upload their own GIFs and collaborates with brands to produce original content. The platform aims to evolve beyond its search engine roots into a vibrant community for GIF artists and enthusiasts, focusing on fostering creativity and engagement within the digital visual communication space. As of mid-2020, Giphy operates as a subsidiary of Instagram, which enhances its integration within social media ecosystems.

Giphy

Series B in 2015
Giphy, Inc. is an online platform that specializes in the search, sharing, and discovery of animated graphics interchange formats (GIFs). Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, the company offers a comprehensive database of GIFs across various categories including emotions, food, animals, and pop culture. It enables users to easily browse and share these animated graphics through social media channels. Giphy also supports creative input by allowing users to upload their own GIFs and collaborates with brands to produce original content. The platform aims to evolve beyond its search engine roots into a vibrant community for GIF artists and enthusiasts, focusing on fostering creativity and engagement within the digital visual communication space. As of mid-2020, Giphy operates as a subsidiary of Instagram, which enhances its integration within social media ecosystems.

Outbrain

Series E in 2013
Outbrain is a recommendation platform designed for the open web, facilitating the discovery of content for online consumers through personalized recommendation feeds. It connects advertisers with their target audiences by delivering ads that appear as links to articles, products, and videos on various media partners' websites and mobile applications. The platform drives quality engagement by matching users with relevant content, generating revenue for the company based on user interactions with the advertisements. Outbrain operates in multiple regions, including Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the United States, positioning itself as a significant player in the digital advertising landscape.

Outbrain

Series D in 2011
Outbrain is a recommendation platform designed for the open web, facilitating the discovery of content for online consumers through personalized recommendation feeds. It connects advertisers with their target audiences by delivering ads that appear as links to articles, products, and videos on various media partners' websites and mobile applications. The platform drives quality engagement by matching users with relevant content, generating revenue for the company based on user interactions with the advertisements. Outbrain operates in multiple regions, including Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the United States, positioning itself as a significant player in the digital advertising landscape.

Outbrain

Series C in 2011
Outbrain is a recommendation platform designed for the open web, facilitating the discovery of content for online consumers through personalized recommendation feeds. It connects advertisers with their target audiences by delivering ads that appear as links to articles, products, and videos on various media partners' websites and mobile applications. The platform drives quality engagement by matching users with relevant content, generating revenue for the company based on user interactions with the advertisements. Outbrain operates in multiple regions, including Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the United States, positioning itself as a significant player in the digital advertising landscape.

Outbrain

Series B in 2009
Outbrain is a recommendation platform designed for the open web, facilitating the discovery of content for online consumers through personalized recommendation feeds. It connects advertisers with their target audiences by delivering ads that appear as links to articles, products, and videos on various media partners' websites and mobile applications. The platform drives quality engagement by matching users with relevant content, generating revenue for the company based on user interactions with the advertisements. Outbrain operates in multiple regions, including Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the United States, positioning itself as a significant player in the digital advertising landscape.

Kosmix

Series D in 2008
Kosmix, established in 2005, is a Mountain View, California-based company that specializes in web navigation and content discovery. It offers a platform that organizes the internet into topic-based pages, presenting users with relevant videos, photos, news, and other content. Kosmix's advanced search engine allows users to filter results using multiple criteria, making it easier to find specific information. The company's content categorization engine also generates topic-specific homepages, helping users cut through online noise and find content that matters to them. Kosmix was founded by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman, who previously co-founded Junglee and Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk. The company is backed by Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dag Ventures, and Bezos Expeditions.

Outbrain

Series A in 2008
Outbrain is a recommendation platform designed for the open web, facilitating the discovery of content for online consumers through personalized recommendation feeds. It connects advertisers with their target audiences by delivering ads that appear as links to articles, products, and videos on various media partners' websites and mobile applications. The platform drives quality engagement by matching users with relevant content, generating revenue for the company based on user interactions with the advertisements. Outbrain operates in multiple regions, including Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the United States, positioning itself as a significant player in the digital advertising landscape.

Kosmix

Series C in 2007
Kosmix, established in 2005, is a Mountain View, California-based company that specializes in web navigation and content discovery. It offers a platform that organizes the internet into topic-based pages, presenting users with relevant videos, photos, news, and other content. Kosmix's advanced search engine allows users to filter results using multiple criteria, making it easier to find specific information. The company's content categorization engine also generates topic-specific homepages, helping users cut through online noise and find content that matters to them. Kosmix was founded by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman, who previously co-founded Junglee and Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk. The company is backed by Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dag Ventures, and Bezos Expeditions.

Four Interactive

Series B in 2007
Four Interactive Private Limited operates the website www.asklaila.com, which serves as a comprehensive local information platform for users in India, Malaysia, Singapore, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. The site provides detailed listings and information about various service providers and businesses, including packers and movers, electronics and appliance stores, healthcare facilities, educational institutions, and entertainment options. Established in 2006 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, the company focuses on delivering relevant information about local establishments, events, lifestyle choices, and shopping across major Indian cities such as Bangalore, Mumbai, and Delhi-NCR. Additionally, Four Interactive has formed a strategic partnership with Airtel to enhance its service offerings.

Wikio

Series A in 2007
Wikio Shopping is an e-commerce platform that enables users to find, compare, and purchase products and services. Users can find deals, consumer reviews, professional tests, photos, and videos on the platform. Wikio was founded by Pierre Chappaz in April 2006 and is based in Paris, Ile-de-France.

Kosmix

Series B in 2006
Kosmix, established in 2005, is a Mountain View, California-based company that specializes in web navigation and content discovery. It offers a platform that organizes the internet into topic-based pages, presenting users with relevant videos, photos, news, and other content. Kosmix's advanced search engine allows users to filter results using multiple criteria, making it easier to find specific information. The company's content categorization engine also generates topic-specific homepages, helping users cut through online noise and find content that matters to them. Kosmix was founded by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman, who previously co-founded Junglee and Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk. The company is backed by Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dag Ventures, and Bezos Expeditions.

Kosmix

Series A in 2005
Kosmix, established in 2005, is a Mountain View, California-based company that specializes in web navigation and content discovery. It offers a platform that organizes the internet into topic-based pages, presenting users with relevant videos, photos, news, and other content. Kosmix's advanced search engine allows users to filter results using multiple criteria, making it easier to find specific information. The company's content categorization engine also generates topic-specific homepages, helping users cut through online noise and find content that matters to them. Kosmix was founded by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman, who previously co-founded Junglee and Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk. The company is backed by Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dag Ventures, and Bezos Expeditions.

FatLens

Series A in 2005
FatLens is the first e-commerce search engine built with patent-pending technology specifically to enhance your online shopping experience. Innovative FatLens technology instantaneously brings you the web's most comprehensive, relevant and unbiased product search results, and the first-ever integrated search with instant messaging for real-time, collaborative online shopping with your friends and family. FatLens provides you the web's most comprehensive e-commerce search results by indexing relevant data from the most number of e-commerce sites and exhaustively categorizing all of the for-sale items at each crawled site. FatLens brings you the most relevant results to your product search through our patent-pending TRIP™ scoring system that accurately matches the indexed and categorized items for sale to your query. Built-in category intelligence easily handles nicknames, misspellings, synonyms and also "fuzzy" matches for providing the greatest relevancy. FatLens also uniquely enhances your e-commerce experience by integrating search with popular instant messaging products (Yahoo! Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger). FatLens enables you to interact in real-time with your friends and family to quickly complete joint or group buying, get timely expert advice or validation, and of course enjoy sharing the online shopping experience. You can search for products you want to buy, select specific products of interest to you to share with your friends and family. By invoking the IM/Collaboration capability (just click the share using Yahoo! Messenger button or AIM button) you can invite your IM buddies to view, share, and refine your product preferences online while also chatting about your choices. The company was founded by an experienced team of entrepreneurs and technologists who have co-founded and worked at successful Internet and search engine technology companies in Silicon Valley. FatLens started operations in 2003 and received its first venture financing from Redpoint Ventures and Cambrian Ventures.
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