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

Venture Partner

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Luke Beseda

Partner

Akshay Bhushan

Partner

Taggart Bonham

Partner

Ashley Brasier

Partner

Cai Wei

Partner

Guru Chahal

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Amish Desai

Partner

Sebastian Duesterhoeft

Partner

Barry Eggers

Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

James Ephrati

Partner

Faraz Fatemi

Partner

Jack Fowler

Partner

Aaron Frank

Venture Partner

Adam Goldberg

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

Hu Peipei

Investment Manager

Galym Imanbayev MD

Partner

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Nnamdi Iregbulem

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

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Will Leas

Partner

Jeremy Liew

Partner

Connor Love

Partner

John Luongo

Venture Partner

Natalie Luu

Partner

Jonathan MacQuitty

Partner

Naveed Matinfar

Partner

Ravi Mhatre

Managing Director

James Mi

Partner

Hemant Mohapatra

Partner

Andrew Moley

Operating Partner and CFO

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Antoine Moyroud

Partner

Paul Murphy

Partner

Justin Overdorff

Partner

Zac Pan

Associate Partner

Apoorva Pandhi

Associate

Krish Parikh

Partner of Business Services

Nicole Quinn

General Partner

Adrian Nicholas Radu

Partner

Chris Schaepe

Co-Founder

Alexander Schmitt

Partner

Semil Shah

Venture Partner

Shan Shan

Partner

Justin Shen

Partner

Justin Shen

Partner

Shuvi Shrivastava

Partner

Ishaan Preet Singh

Investor

Bipul Sinha

Venture Partner

Bejul Somaia

Partner

Ajay Sudan

Venture Partner

Sun Daniel

Partner

Sydney Sykes

Partner

Alex Taussig

Partner

John Thompson

Venture Partner

John Thompson

Venture Partner

Anoushka Vaswani

Partner

Jason Wang

Partner

Nathan Wang

Vice President

Nathan Wu

Partner

Mark Xu

Partner

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

Past deals in Supply Chain Management

Chainguard

Series D in 2025
Chainguard specializes in enhancing software supply chain security. It offers hardened container images rebuilt continuously from source with built-in cryptographic signatures, SBOMs, and SLSA provenance. Additionally, Chainguard provides secure Java dependencies through its Chainguard Libraries. The company actively contributes to open-source projects, demonstrating its commitment to the community.

LightSource

Series A in 2025
LightSource develops a supply chain management platform to help professionals collaborate with their suppliers. It also allows collaborating with teammates on strategic sourcing projects, sending RFQs to suppliers and collecting quotes, and comparing bids using insights automatically extracted from the normal day-to-day work. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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.

Wheelocity

Series A in 2024
Wheelocity is an Indian supply chain network that aims to reduce malnutrition by minimizing food waste through technology-enabled fresh-commerce networks. It operates an integrated ecosystem of collection centers, distribution centers, dark stores, and first- and mid-mile logistics to move fresh produce such as fruits, vegetables, dairy, poultry, and meat efficiently. By leveraging AI and IoT, Wheelocity enhances transparency, efficiency, and inventory control across its nationwide network, delivering faster, more reliable access from farm to plate. Founded in 2021, the company seeks to reshape India’s fresh produce market with an innovative, tech-powered approach to supply chains, ultimately lowering costs, preserving quality, and reducing waste.

Chainguard

Series C in 2024
Chainguard specializes in enhancing software supply chain security. It offers hardened container images rebuilt continuously from source with built-in cryptographic signatures, SBOMs, and SLSA provenance. Additionally, Chainguard provides secure Java dependencies through its Chainguard Libraries. The company actively contributes to open-source projects, demonstrating its commitment to the community.

Emerix

Seed Round in 2024
Emerix is a technology company specializing in supply chain management. It develops artificial intelligence assistants, with its first product, emi, focusing on streamlining direct procurement purchase order (PO) management for supply chain teams. emi automates manual tasks, tracks PO status in real-time, and uses natural language capabilities to increase efficiency and accuracy, allowing teams to concentrate on strategic initiatives. The company aims to expand its AI assistant offerings to other supply chain areas, aiming to revolutionize the industry.

Zyod

Seed Round in 2023
Zyod is a global B2B marketplace for fashion brands seeking end-to-end apparel sourcing and manufacturing solutions. It offers fast turnaround times and low minimum order quantities (MOQs), enabling brands to efficiently produce international-grade products.

Wheelocity

Series A in 2022
Wheelocity is an Indian supply chain network that aims to reduce malnutrition by minimizing food waste through technology-enabled fresh-commerce networks. It operates an integrated ecosystem of collection centers, distribution centers, dark stores, and first- and mid-mile logistics to move fresh produce such as fruits, vegetables, dairy, poultry, and meat efficiently. By leveraging AI and IoT, Wheelocity enhances transparency, efficiency, and inventory control across its nationwide network, delivering faster, more reliable access from farm to plate. Founded in 2021, the company seeks to reshape India’s fresh produce market with an innovative, tech-powered approach to supply chains, ultimately lowering costs, preserving quality, and reducing waste.

Faire

Series G in 2021
Faire is a two-sided marketplace connecting local retail stores with unique wholesale merchandise from brands and makers. It offers retailers tools for data insights, financial terms, and logistics support to compete with larger competitors. Faire's platform simplifies wholesale buying and selling processes, offering net 60 payment terms and free returns.

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.

Freight Tiger

Venture Round in 2021
Freight Tiger is a developer of a digital freight network aimed at simplifying and enhancing the logistics supply chain for individual workers. The company's software integrates location intelligence with management and fulfillment visibility, streamlining freight transactions and payments in a centralized platform. This enables logistics service providers and transportation companies to optimize truck utilization and improve payment cycles, thus enhancing operational efficiency. By focusing on transparency and ease of use, Freight Tiger aims to transform freight transactions, making them more straightforward and efficient for all stakeholders in the logistics industry.

Faire

Series F in 2021
Faire is a two-sided marketplace connecting local retail stores with unique wholesale merchandise from brands and makers. It offers retailers tools for data insights, financial terms, and logistics support to compete with larger competitors. Faire's platform simplifies wholesale buying and selling processes, offering net 60 payment terms and free returns.

Shipper

Series B in 2021
Shipper is a digital logistics platform that facilitates efficient delivery of goods for freight forwarders. It offers package pick-up services, helps manage shipments, predicts shipping routes, consolidates packages, and provides a multi-carrier API for order management and tracking.

Full Truck Alliance

Venture Round in 2020
Full Truck Alliance is a Chinese company that operates a platform connecting shippers with truckers to facilitate the transportation of goods over various distances and cargo weights. The company provides comprehensive services to both shippers and truckers through its mobile and web platforms. Its primary source of revenue comes from the use of these platforms for freight matching services, as well as additional value-added services. By streamlining the logistics process, Full Truck Alliance aims to enhance efficiency in freight transportation within the region.

Faire

Series E in 2020
Faire is a two-sided marketplace connecting local retail stores with unique wholesale merchandise from brands and makers. It offers retailers tools for data insights, financial terms, and logistics support to compete with larger competitors. Faire's platform simplifies wholesale buying and selling processes, offering net 60 payment terms and free returns.

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.

Shipper

Series A in 2020
Shipper is a digital logistics platform that facilitates efficient delivery of goods for freight forwarders. It offers package pick-up services, helps manage shipments, predicts shipping routes, consolidates packages, and provides a multi-carrier API for order management and tracking.

Chilibeli

Series A in 2020
Chilibeli is a social commerce platform based in Jakarta, Indonesia, that facilitates the direct connection between manufacturers, farmers, agents, and consumers through various instant messaging tools. Founded in 2019, the company aims to streamline the supply chain for fresh produce, enabling farmers and agents to earn additional income with flexibility. By leveraging a community-based retail approach, Chilibeli offers consumers access to quality fruits and vegetables at competitive prices, often with free shipping. The platform emphasizes the importance of supporting local farmers while enhancing the shopping experience for consumers, ensuring that they receive fresh produce sourced directly from agricultural producers.

Bond - The Post Purchase Company

Series A in 2020
Bond - "The post-purchase company", enables digital native brands to provide their online customers with an outstanding post-purchase experience that impacts sales, retention, and satisfaction. We've deployed a technology-driven network of neighborhood-level distribution centers that are managed by local teams. This enables us to store goods closer to customers, getting to them faster for deliveries or returns and when it's most convenient.

Faire

Series D in 2019
Faire is a two-sided marketplace connecting local retail stores with unique wholesale merchandise from brands and makers. It offers retailers tools for data insights, financial terms, and logistics support to compete with larger competitors. Faire's platform simplifies wholesale buying and selling processes, offering net 60 payment terms and free returns.

Chilibeli

Seed Round in 2019
Chilibeli is a social commerce platform based in Jakarta, Indonesia, that facilitates the direct connection between manufacturers, farmers, agents, and consumers through various instant messaging tools. Founded in 2019, the company aims to streamline the supply chain for fresh produce, enabling farmers and agents to earn additional income with flexibility. By leveraging a community-based retail approach, Chilibeli offers consumers access to quality fruits and vegetables at competitive prices, often with free shipping. The platform emphasizes the importance of supporting local farmers while enhancing the shopping experience for consumers, ensuring that they receive fresh produce sourced directly from agricultural producers.

Shipper

Seed Round in 2019
Shipper is a digital logistics platform that facilitates efficient delivery of goods for freight forwarders. It offers package pick-up services, helps manage shipments, predicts shipping routes, consolidates packages, and provides a multi-carrier API for order management and tracking.

Freight Tiger

Venture Round in 2019
Freight Tiger is a developer of a digital freight network aimed at simplifying and enhancing the logistics supply chain for individual workers. The company's software integrates location intelligence with management and fulfillment visibility, streamlining freight transactions and payments in a centralized platform. This enables logistics service providers and transportation companies to optimize truck utilization and improve payment cycles, thus enhancing operational efficiency. By focusing on transparency and ease of use, Freight Tiger aims to transform freight transactions, making them more straightforward and efficient for all stakeholders in the logistics industry.

Faire

Series C in 2018
Faire is a two-sided marketplace connecting local retail stores with unique wholesale merchandise from brands and makers. It offers retailers tools for data insights, financial terms, and logistics support to compete with larger competitors. Faire's platform simplifies wholesale buying and selling processes, offering net 60 payment terms and free returns.

Faire

Series B in 2018
Faire is a two-sided marketplace connecting local retail stores with unique wholesale merchandise from brands and makers. It offers retailers tools for data insights, financial terms, and logistics support to compete with larger competitors. Faire's platform simplifies wholesale buying and selling processes, offering net 60 payment terms and free returns.

Priority Vendor Technologies

Series A in 2018
Priority Vendor Technologies offers working capital solutions aimed at enhancing the financial efficiency of corporations and their suppliers. The company has developed an early-payment facilitation platform that optimizes the cash discounting process between small and medium enterprise vendors and larger organizations. This innovative platform addresses cash flow challenges, particularly those arising from advance tax payments, by implementing a systematic and competitive approach. As a result, Priority Vendor Technologies enables companies to improve working capital efficiency and streamline financial operations for their suppliers, ultimately unlocking value within the existing supply chain.

Yunmanman

Series D in 2016
Yunmanman is a technology company based in Shanghai, focused on enhancing the logistics and road transport industries through its mobile application. The company develops a freight transportation platform that connects truck drivers with cargo owners, improving the efficiency of cargo allocation and transportation. By providing tools for vehicle transportation dispatch and intelligent logistics information, Yunmanman facilitates the process of finding suitable transportation and available cargo, thereby streamlining logistics operations. Co-founded by executives and experts from the Alibaba logistics sector, Yunmanman aims to deliver comprehensive information and transaction services that optimize freight management for its users.

Baiwancang

Angel Round in 2016
Baiwancang is a B2B e-commerce platform based in China that specializes in industrial products and electronics. It connects businesses with quality products and merchants within the industrial sector, offering a comprehensive service that integrates both online and offline elements. The platform aims to enhance the procurement strategies of purchasing enterprises by focusing on reducing costs, improving efficiency, and facilitating online purchasing. Through its services, Baiwancang provides personalized support to help procurement companies navigate their purchasing needs effectively.

Yunmanman

Series C in 2015
Yunmanman is a technology company based in Shanghai, focused on enhancing the logistics and road transport industries through its mobile application. The company develops a freight transportation platform that connects truck drivers with cargo owners, improving the efficiency of cargo allocation and transportation. By providing tools for vehicle transportation dispatch and intelligent logistics information, Yunmanman facilitates the process of finding suitable transportation and available cargo, thereby streamlining logistics operations. Co-founded by executives and experts from the Alibaba logistics sector, Yunmanman aims to deliver comprehensive information and transaction services that optimize freight management for its users.

Townrush

Seed Round in 2015
Townrush is an on-demand delivery platform that facilitates the rapid delivery of local goods within urban areas. By connecting merchants and customers with local logistics service providers, Townrush ensures that products can be picked up and delivered within hours. The company is focused on re-engineering the intra-city supply chain through the integration of advanced routing and assignment algorithms, supported by a robust payment infrastructure. Its team consists of skilled engineers and designers with backgrounds from leading companies and prestigious educational institutions, emphasizing a commitment to innovation and efficiency in urban logistics.

Yunmanman

Series B in 2015
Yunmanman is a technology company based in Shanghai, focused on enhancing the logistics and road transport industries through its mobile application. The company develops a freight transportation platform that connects truck drivers with cargo owners, improving the efficiency of cargo allocation and transportation. By providing tools for vehicle transportation dispatch and intelligent logistics information, Yunmanman facilitates the process of finding suitable transportation and available cargo, thereby streamlining logistics operations. Co-founded by executives and experts from the Alibaba logistics sector, Yunmanman aims to deliver comprehensive information and transaction services that optimize freight management for its users.

Yunmanman

Series A in 2014
Yunmanman is a technology company based in Shanghai, focused on enhancing the logistics and road transport industries through its mobile application. The company develops a freight transportation platform that connects truck drivers with cargo owners, improving the efficiency of cargo allocation and transportation. By providing tools for vehicle transportation dispatch and intelligent logistics information, Yunmanman facilitates the process of finding suitable transportation and available cargo, thereby streamlining logistics operations. Co-founded by executives and experts from the Alibaba logistics sector, Yunmanman aims to deliver comprehensive information and transaction services that optimize freight management for its users.

Elementum

Series B in 2014
Elementum SCM, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing applications for supply chain management, aimed at simplifying procurement, logistics, and manufacturing operations. Founded in 2012 and based in Mountain View, California, Elementum offers a suite of mobile-first applications that include tools for supplier management, logistics, shop floor monitoring, inventory management, and supply chain insights. The company's platform utilizes a unique product graph to analyze vast amounts of data, providing businesses with actionable insights and early warning signals to address potential disruptions. By serving professionals in logistics, operations, procurement, and risk management, Elementum enables companies to enhance their supply chain efficiency and proactively manage risks and performance indicators.

PCH International

Series B in 2011
PCH International is a global product development and supply chain platform that helps brands bring and scale new products. The company offers end-to-end services across product design and development, manufacturing, fulfillment, packaging, logistics, and distribution, complemented by supply chain orchestration to optimize operations and reduce costs. Operating asset-light, PCH connects brands with consumers through an integrated, horizontal platform that spans the product lifecycle, aiming to boost brand revenue, improve transparency, and enhance sustainability while strengthening consumer engagement. Founded in 1996, PCH maintains innovation hubs in San Francisco and Shenzhen, with headquarters in Cork and operations in Cape Town, enabling cost synergies, global talent access, and rapid product delivery. Servicing customers across beauty, home, living, entertainment, technology, fashion, and wellness, PCH supports channels including direct-to-consumer, direct-to-retail, and ecommerce. The company also established Highway1, a hardware accelerator to help startups bring products to market, reflecting its focus on accelerating hardware innovation and scale.

PCH International

Series A in 2008
PCH International is a global product development and supply chain platform that helps brands bring and scale new products. The company offers end-to-end services across product design and development, manufacturing, fulfillment, packaging, logistics, and distribution, complemented by supply chain orchestration to optimize operations and reduce costs. Operating asset-light, PCH connects brands with consumers through an integrated, horizontal platform that spans the product lifecycle, aiming to boost brand revenue, improve transparency, and enhance sustainability while strengthening consumer engagement. Founded in 1996, PCH maintains innovation hubs in San Francisco and Shenzhen, with headquarters in Cork and operations in Cape Town, enabling cost synergies, global talent access, and rapid product delivery. Servicing customers across beauty, home, living, entertainment, technology, fashion, and wellness, PCH supports channels including direct-to-consumer, direct-to-retail, and ecommerce. The company also established Highway1, a hardware accelerator to help startups bring products to market, reflecting its focus on accelerating hardware innovation and scale.
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