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 Streaming

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.

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.

Zebec Network

Series A in 2022
Zebec is a continuous settlement protocol on Solana. Zebec is enabling the composable transfer of value starting with Stream Payroll.

Kalam Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Kalam Labs is a live game streaming platform that merges K-12 education with multiplayer gaming. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, the company focuses on creating an interactive learning experience for children. Its artificial intelligence platform enables kids to engage in quizzes through entertaining games, specifically targeting those with an interest in astronomy. This innovative approach not only fosters a love for space but also provides young learners with opportunities to participate in real-world space projects in collaboration with leading universities.

Firework

Series A in 2021
Firework provides video commerce solutions designed for websites, applications, and retail environments. The company operates a storytelling platform that facilitates live streaming videos directly on websites. This platform includes features such as in-video shopping, lead generation, and live-streaming events. Additionally, it allows brands to import and edit videos, enhancing their ability to engage and convert visitors on their websites. Through these offerings, Firework aims to enrich the online shopping experience and drive customer interaction.

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.

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.

Firework

Series A in 2018
Firework provides video commerce solutions designed for websites, applications, and retail environments. The company operates a storytelling platform that facilitates live streaming videos directly on websites. This platform includes features such as in-video shopping, lead generation, and live-streaming events. Additionally, it allows brands to import and edit videos, enhancing their ability to engage and convert visitors on their websites. Through these offerings, Firework aims to enrich the online shopping experience and drive customer interaction.

Streamlio

Series A in 2017
Streamlio, Inc. is a technology company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2016. It specializes in providing real-time solutions for the messaging, processing, and storage of streaming data, utilizing open-source technologies like Apache Pulsar. Streamlio's platform enables organizations to build data-driven applications that can respond to events in real time, supporting both publish-subscribe and queuing models. The company offers features such as event-driven architecture, anomaly detection, and predictive modeling, ensuring high-performance stream processing and scalable distributed storage. Streamlio's solutions are designed for critical production applications across data centers, cloud environments, and edge computing, making it a valuable asset for businesses looking to harness the power of streaming data. As of October 2019, Streamlio operates as a subsidiary of Splunk Inc.
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