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 Technical Support

Arrcus

Venture Round in 2024
Arrcus, Inc. is a company that specializes in designing and developing closed-source operating systems for networking hardware, such as switches and routers. Founded in 2016 and based in San Jose, California, Arrcus offers a range of products including ArcOS, a hardware-agnostic network operating system; ArcRR, a 64-bit route reflector; and ArcIQ, an analytics platform that provides real-time insights for network management. Additionally, the company provides the Arrcus VDR routing platform, the IP/EVPN Clos solution, and a multi-cloud networking platform. Arrcus focuses on enabling organizations to build scalable infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud environments, simplifying network operations and enhancing connectivity among people, machines, and data.

Arrcus

Series D in 2023
Arrcus, Inc. is a company that specializes in designing and developing closed-source operating systems for networking hardware, such as switches and routers. Founded in 2016 and based in San Jose, California, Arrcus offers a range of products including ArcOS, a hardware-agnostic network operating system; ArcRR, a 64-bit route reflector; and ArcIQ, an analytics platform that provides real-time insights for network management. Additionally, the company provides the Arrcus VDR routing platform, the IP/EVPN Clos solution, and a multi-cloud networking platform. Arrcus focuses on enabling organizations to build scalable infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud environments, simplifying network operations and enhancing connectivity among people, machines, and data.

Arrcus

Series D in 2023
Arrcus, Inc. is a company that specializes in designing and developing closed-source operating systems for networking hardware, such as switches and routers. Founded in 2016 and based in San Jose, California, Arrcus offers a range of products including ArcOS, a hardware-agnostic network operating system; ArcRR, a 64-bit route reflector; and ArcIQ, an analytics platform that provides real-time insights for network management. Additionally, the company provides the Arrcus VDR routing platform, the IP/EVPN Clos solution, and a multi-cloud networking platform. Arrcus focuses on enabling organizations to build scalable infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud environments, simplifying network operations and enhancing connectivity among people, machines, and data.

Fullview

Seed Round in 2022
Fullview is a B2B platform that provides tools to scale live customer support. It enables real-time screen viewing, multiplayer screen control, and in-app video calls to speed up assistance. The platform also provides instant context for support tickets with a real-time feed and supports communicating with clients while viewing their screens, improving the efficiency of technical support for software companies.

Moveworks

Series C in 2021
Moveworks is a cloud-based AI platform for enterprises that automates IT support and related administrative tasks. The platform autonomously handles requests such as ordering hardware, provisioning software and account access, locating colleagues and conference rooms, checking ticket status, and obtaining software licenses, all through conversational interfaces. It integrates with enterprise chat tools like Slack to interact with users and trigger automated workflows. The solution uses a Reasoning Engine that combines public and proprietary large language models to interpret complex requests, execute multi-step processes, and adapt from past interactions. It surfaces information and automates tasks across multiple systems with an agentic AI assistant that enables conversational automation across business functions. Moveworks was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in Culver City, California.

Arrcus

Venture Round in 2021
Arrcus, Inc. is a company that specializes in designing and developing closed-source operating systems for networking hardware, such as switches and routers. Founded in 2016 and based in San Jose, California, Arrcus offers a range of products including ArcOS, a hardware-agnostic network operating system; ArcRR, a 64-bit route reflector; and ArcIQ, an analytics platform that provides real-time insights for network management. Additionally, the company provides the Arrcus VDR routing platform, the IP/EVPN Clos solution, and a multi-cloud networking platform. Arrcus focuses on enabling organizations to build scalable infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud environments, simplifying network operations and enhancing connectivity among people, machines, and data.

Salto

Series B in 2021
Founded in 2019 by veteran entrepreneurs, Salto specializes in streamlining business application configuration. Its innovative solution automatically extracts configurations from various applications like Salesforce and NetSuite, translating them into a collaborative, version-control-friendly language called NaCl. This enables easy testing, tracking, and rollback of configuration changes across multiple platforms.

Salto

Series A in 2020
Founded in 2019 by veteran entrepreneurs, Salto specializes in streamlining business application configuration. Its innovative solution automatically extracts configurations from various applications like Salesforce and NetSuite, translating them into a collaborative, version-control-friendly language called NaCl. This enables easy testing, tracking, and rollback of configuration changes across multiple platforms.

Moveworks

Series B in 2019
Moveworks is a cloud-based AI platform for enterprises that automates IT support and related administrative tasks. The platform autonomously handles requests such as ordering hardware, provisioning software and account access, locating colleagues and conference rooms, checking ticket status, and obtaining software licenses, all through conversational interfaces. It integrates with enterprise chat tools like Slack to interact with users and trigger automated workflows. The solution uses a Reasoning Engine that combines public and proprietary large language models to interpret complex requests, execute multi-step processes, and adapt from past interactions. It surfaces information and automates tasks across multiple systems with an agentic AI assistant that enables conversational automation across business functions. Moveworks was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in Culver City, California.

Arrcus

Series B in 2019
Arrcus, Inc. is a company that specializes in designing and developing closed-source operating systems for networking hardware, such as switches and routers. Founded in 2016 and based in San Jose, California, Arrcus offers a range of products including ArcOS, a hardware-agnostic network operating system; ArcRR, a 64-bit route reflector; and ArcIQ, an analytics platform that provides real-time insights for network management. Additionally, the company provides the Arrcus VDR routing platform, the IP/EVPN Clos solution, and a multi-cloud networking platform. Arrcus focuses on enabling organizations to build scalable infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud environments, simplifying network operations and enhancing connectivity among people, machines, and data.

Moveworks

Series A in 2019
Moveworks is a cloud-based AI platform for enterprises that automates IT support and related administrative tasks. The platform autonomously handles requests such as ordering hardware, provisioning software and account access, locating colleagues and conference rooms, checking ticket status, and obtaining software licenses, all through conversational interfaces. It integrates with enterprise chat tools like Slack to interact with users and trigger automated workflows. The solution uses a Reasoning Engine that combines public and proprietary large language models to interpret complex requests, execute multi-step processes, and adapt from past interactions. It surfaces information and automates tasks across multiple systems with an agentic AI assistant that enables conversational automation across business functions. Moveworks was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in Culver City, California.

Datrium

Series D in 2018
Datrium, Inc. is a technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, specializing in server flash storage systems and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) for hybrid cloud environments. Founded in 2012, Datrium offers a range of products designed to simplify data management and improve performance across on-premises and cloud platforms. Key offerings include the Datrium DVX system, which integrates local storage compute and caching with advanced data management capabilities, and cloud-based solutions such as Data Cloud and Datrium CloudShift for disaster recovery orchestration. The company also provides features like end-to-end encryption, efficient deduplication, and cloud-native design, enabling enterprises to protect and manage their data lifecycle effectively. Datrium is recognized for delivering higher input/output performance and simpler administration compared to traditional HCI solutions.

Datrium

Series C in 2016
Datrium, Inc. is a technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, specializing in server flash storage systems and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) for hybrid cloud environments. Founded in 2012, Datrium offers a range of products designed to simplify data management and improve performance across on-premises and cloud platforms. Key offerings include the Datrium DVX system, which integrates local storage compute and caching with advanced data management capabilities, and cloud-based solutions such as Data Cloud and Datrium CloudShift for disaster recovery orchestration. The company also provides features like end-to-end encryption, efficient deduplication, and cloud-native design, enabling enterprises to protect and manage their data lifecycle effectively. Datrium is recognized for delivering higher input/output performance and simpler administration compared to traditional HCI solutions.

Lianluo

Series B in 2010
Lianluo, formally known as Hangzhou Liaison Interactive Information Technology Co Ltd, focuses on system integration and hardware distribution. The company is actively involved in the development and distribution of application software, along with providing technical support services. Its primary clientele includes sectors within the power and tobacco industries, for which it offers specialized products such as power information management systems and tobacco information management systems. Lianluo primarily operates within the domestic market, catering to the specific needs of these industries.

Lane15 Software

Series B in 2001
Lane15 Software offers software for the development, testing, and deployment of InfiniBand Architecture in corporate networks. Lane15 Software offers enterprise data centers with Lane15 Fabric Manager, a fabric management software solution. It also offers Lane15 Application Enabler, a software solution that enables its users to run their existing database applications over an InfiniBand subnet. Lane15 Software was acquired by InfiniSwitch Corporation in March 2003. Lane15 Software was founded in 2000 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Marathon Technologies

Venture Round in 2000
Marathon Technologies Corporation specializes in fault-tolerant and disaster recovery software solutions tailored for both physical and virtual servers. The company’s primary offerings include everRun VM, which safeguards against outages and data loss in Citrix virtual server environments; everRun HA, designed for component-level fault tolerance to protect Windows server applications; and everRun FT, which ensures system-level fault tolerance for high availability of Windows applications. Additionally, Marathon Technologies provides everRun SplitSite to enhance geographic fault tolerance and mitigate risks from localized and site-wide disasters, along with everRun CDP & DR, a software solution for disaster recovery planning that captures and replicates application data to prevent catastrophic failure. The company also extends consulting, training, and technical support services to its diverse clientele, which includes broadcast networks, corporate organizations, pharmaceutical firms, casino properties, and midsized companies. Founded in 1993, Marathon Technologies is headquartered in Littleton, Massachusetts.
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