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 Trading Platform

Udaan

Series G in 2025
Udaan is a B2B e-commerce platform based in India that connects businesses with suppliers across various sectors, including FMCG, pharmaceuticals, and staples. It aims to address core trade challenges faced by small, medium, and large enterprises by providing a centralized platform for buying and selling goods. Udaan facilitates direct connections between clients, allowing them to negotiate better deals while ensuring secure payment processes and efficient logistics. The platform also supports small businesses by offering financial products tailored to their needs, thereby enhancing their operational capabilities and market reach.

Stable Money

Seed Round in 2024
Stable Money is a fixed-return investment platform that enables individuals to access fixed deposits, debt mutual funds, and bonds through RBI-regulated options. The service offers flexible plans, including monthly and quarterly payouts, with a focus on delivering higher returns alongside safety and long-term wealth growth. The platform emphasizes ease of use and protection, with certain options insured by the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC).

Udaan

Series E in 2023
Udaan is a B2B e-commerce platform based in India that connects businesses with suppliers across various sectors, including FMCG, pharmaceuticals, and staples. It aims to address core trade challenges faced by small, medium, and large enterprises by providing a centralized platform for buying and selling goods. Udaan facilitates direct connections between clients, allowing them to negotiate better deals while ensuring secure payment processes and efficient logistics. The platform also supports small businesses by offering financial products tailored to their needs, thereby enhancing their operational capabilities and market reach.

Blockchain.com

Series E in 2023
Blockchain.com develops a digital assets platform facilitating the buying, selling, and usage of cryptocurrencies. With over 50 million users worldwide, it aims to create an open and accessible financial system by empowering individuals to control their money securely.

Econia Labs

Seed Round in 2023
Econia Labs develops a DeFi protocol on the Aptos blockchain. Its hyper-parallelized on-chain order book facilitates trading in decentralized finance, offering high-performance transaction execution and promoting financial inclusion.

Stable Money

Series A in 2023
Stable Money is a fixed-return investment platform that enables individuals to access fixed deposits, debt mutual funds, and bonds through RBI-regulated options. The service offers flexible plans, including monthly and quarterly payouts, with a focus on delivering higher returns alongside safety and long-term wealth growth. The platform emphasizes ease of use and protection, with certain options insured by the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC).

Trendsi

Series A in 2022
Trendsi is an online fashion business-to-business marketplace that simplifies the process for sellers to establish and expand their ventures by offering wholesale inventory. The company leverages advanced technology and a robust supply chain to enable individuals to launch and grow their businesses with minimal risk. Trendsi eliminates the need for upfront inventory or subscription costs, providing a comprehensive platform for accessing quality merchandise at competitive prices. Through its innovative approach, Trendsi supports budding entrepreneurs in the fashion industry, making it accessible for them to navigate the complexities of e-commerce efficiently.

Skip

Seed Round in 2022
Skip is a blockchain company that provides infrastructure to help blockchains leverage Miner Extractable Value (MEV) for financial sustainability and improved user experiences. The company has developed a platform featuring a sealed-bid closed auction system, allowing traders to submit tipped transactions to validators. This system prioritizes these transactions at the top of blocks, facilitating long-term financial viability for blockchains. Additionally, it enables traders to implement more sophisticated and profitable trading strategies. Through its innovative approach, Skip aims to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of blockchain transactions.

Arena Club

Venture Round in 2022
Arena Club operates a platform that bridges the physical and digital worlds of sports card collecting. The company enables hobbyists to buy, sell, trade, and invest in cards online while also handling physical cards through a connected process. It supports a marketplace and tools for authenticating and grading cards using computer vision and machine learning, providing frictionless transactions and transparent valuations. By linking digital representations with real-world cards, Arena Club helps collectors manage inventories, showcase their holdings, and participate in a hybrid ecosystem that combines online trading with physical card ownership.

Blockchain.com

Series D in 2022
Blockchain.com develops a digital assets platform facilitating the buying, selling, and usage of cryptocurrencies. With over 50 million users worldwide, it aims to create an open and accessible financial system by empowering individuals to control their money securely.

Yubi

Series B in 2022
Yubi is a comprehensive digital platform facilitating debt solutions for investors. It connects startups with investors via debenture issuance, offering tools for credit underwriting, analytics, structuring, execution workflows, and real-time notifications to aid informed investment decisions.

FTX

Series C in 2022
FTX is a cryptocurrency exchange company that develops platforms for professional trading firms, offering intuitive interfaces suitable for both experienced traders and beginners. It supports quarterly and perpetual futures for all major cryptocurrencies, leveraged tokens, and OTC derivatives.

Trading.TV

Series A in 2022
Trading.TV is a content-driven financial services company for the next generation of investors. Our mission is to empower anyone to achieve financial freedom by merging entertainment and fintech into a simple, but powerful social experience. The platform enables creators to produce fun, interactive and informative content that investors can easily consume, take part in and act on by trading mentioned assets, from stocks and crypto to NFTs and collectibles – all in one place.

FTX

Series B in 2021
FTX is a cryptocurrency exchange company that develops platforms for professional trading firms, offering intuitive interfaces suitable for both experienced traders and beginners. It supports quarterly and perpetual futures for all major cryptocurrencies, leveraged tokens, and OTC derivatives.

Yubi

Series A in 2021
Yubi is a comprehensive digital platform facilitating debt solutions for investors. It connects startups with investors via debenture issuance, offering tools for credit underwriting, analytics, structuring, execution workflows, and real-time notifications to aid informed investment decisions.

Matrixport

Series C in 2021
Matrixport is a comprehensive platform offering digital asset services, including trading, investing, leveraging, and secure custody for cryptocurrencies.

Blockchain.com

Series C in 2021
Blockchain.com develops a digital assets platform facilitating the buying, selling, and usage of cryptocurrencies. With over 50 million users worldwide, it aims to create an open and accessible financial system by empowering individuals to control their money securely.

Blockchain.com

Venture Round in 2021
Blockchain.com develops a digital assets platform facilitating the buying, selling, and usage of cryptocurrencies. With over 50 million users worldwide, it aims to create an open and accessible financial system by empowering individuals to control their money securely.

Wintermute

Series B in 2021
Wintermute is a global leader in algorithmic trading for digital assets. With an average daily trading volume of over $5 billion across 350+ tokens on 80+ exchanges, it facilitates OTC trades and provides liquidity provisioning services. Wintermute actively invests in early-stage DeFi projects, supporting the growth of decentralized finance.

Udaan

Series D in 2021
Udaan is a B2B e-commerce platform based in India that connects businesses with suppliers across various sectors, including FMCG, pharmaceuticals, and staples. It aims to address core trade challenges faced by small, medium, and large enterprises by providing a centralized platform for buying and selling goods. Udaan facilitates direct connections between clients, allowing them to negotiate better deals while ensuring secure payment processes and efficient logistics. The platform also supports small businesses by offering financial products tailored to their needs, thereby enhancing their operational capabilities and market reach.

Wintermute

Series A in 2020
Wintermute is a global leader in algorithmic trading for digital assets. With an average daily trading volume of over $5 billion across 350+ tokens on 80+ exchanges, it facilitates OTC trades and provides liquidity provisioning services. Wintermute actively invests in early-stage DeFi projects, supporting the growth of decentralized finance.

Matrixport

Venture Round in 2019
Matrixport is a comprehensive platform offering digital asset services, including trading, investing, leveraging, and secure custody for cryptocurrencies.

Udaan

Series D in 2019
Udaan is a B2B e-commerce platform based in India that connects businesses with suppliers across various sectors, including FMCG, pharmaceuticals, and staples. It aims to address core trade challenges faced by small, medium, and large enterprises by providing a centralized platform for buying and selling goods. Udaan facilitates direct connections between clients, allowing them to negotiate better deals while ensuring secure payment processes and efficient logistics. The platform also supports small businesses by offering financial products tailored to their needs, thereby enhancing their operational capabilities and market reach.

Udaan

Series C in 2018
Udaan is a B2B e-commerce platform based in India that connects businesses with suppliers across various sectors, including FMCG, pharmaceuticals, and staples. It aims to address core trade challenges faced by small, medium, and large enterprises by providing a centralized platform for buying and selling goods. Udaan facilitates direct connections between clients, allowing them to negotiate better deals while ensuring secure payment processes and efficient logistics. The platform also supports small businesses by offering financial products tailored to their needs, thereby enhancing their operational capabilities and market reach.

eBroker

Series C in 2018
eBroker, also known as e-Proxy, is an internet finance company specializing in overseas asset allocation and improving industry efficiency. Acting as a sales crowdsourcing platform, eBroker's e-Agent sells high-quality overseas assets to first-tier elites through innovative business models and intermediation. With a financial management division serving over 10,000 clients, the company has received significant capital investment from various institutions such as Xianfeng Evergreen, Guangshen Anzhen, Yunjiu Capital, Lippo Group, Xianfeng Group, and Shin Kong Group.

Udaan

Series B in 2018
Udaan is a B2B e-commerce platform based in India that connects businesses with suppliers across various sectors, including FMCG, pharmaceuticals, and staples. It aims to address core trade challenges faced by small, medium, and large enterprises by providing a centralized platform for buying and selling goods. Udaan facilitates direct connections between clients, allowing them to negotiate better deals while ensuring secure payment processes and efficient logistics. The platform also supports small businesses by offering financial products tailored to their needs, thereby enhancing their operational capabilities and market reach.

Blockchain.com

Series B in 2017
Blockchain.com develops a digital assets platform facilitating the buying, selling, and usage of cryptocurrencies. With over 50 million users worldwide, it aims to create an open and accessible financial system by empowering individuals to control their money securely.

Udaan

Series A in 2016
Udaan is a B2B e-commerce platform based in India that connects businesses with suppliers across various sectors, including FMCG, pharmaceuticals, and staples. It aims to address core trade challenges faced by small, medium, and large enterprises by providing a centralized platform for buying and selling goods. Udaan facilitates direct connections between clients, allowing them to negotiate better deals while ensuring secure payment processes and efficient logistics. The platform also supports small businesses by offering financial products tailored to their needs, thereby enhancing their operational capabilities and market reach.

eBroker

Series A in 2016
eBroker, also known as e-Proxy, is an internet finance company specializing in overseas asset allocation and improving industry efficiency. Acting as a sales crowdsourcing platform, eBroker's e-Agent sells high-quality overseas assets to first-tier elites through innovative business models and intermediation. With a financial management division serving over 10,000 clients, the company has received significant capital investment from various institutions such as Xianfeng Evergreen, Guangshen Anzhen, Yunjiu Capital, Lippo Group, Xianfeng Group, and Shin Kong Group.

Melotic

Seed Round in 2014
Melotic, Inc. is a cryptocurrency technology company founded in 2014 and based in Hong Kong. The company operates a digital asset exchange, facilitating the trading of curated digital assets, including Bitcoins. Melotic aims to enhance financial inclusion by providing a platform that enables users worldwide to transact easily and securely with cryptocurrencies. Its team comprises experienced technologists and professionals who share a strong belief in the transformative potential of digital currencies.

Blockchain.com

Series A in 2014
Blockchain.com develops a digital assets platform facilitating the buying, selling, and usage of cryptocurrencies. With over 50 million users worldwide, it aims to create an open and accessible financial system by empowering individuals to control their money securely.

LedgerX

Series A in 2014
LedgerX LLC is a developer of an institutional derivatives exchange platform specifically for digital currencies. Founded in 2014 and based in Vail, Colorado, the company operates as a subsidiary of NYBX LLC. LedgerX has applied for registration with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to function as a swap execution facility and derivatives clearing organization. The platform is designed to facilitate smooth trading in cryptocurrency futures and options, offering features such as physical settlement of contracts, block trading, and algorithmic trading. This enables both individual traders and institutions to transact in cryptocurrencies with increased efficiency and regulatory oversight.

Indian Energy Exchange

Venture Round in 2010
Indian Energy Exchange is a power trading platform in India that provides an automated platform for the physical delivery of electricity, enabling price discovery and risk management for participants including utilities, open access consumers, generators, and industrial users. The exchange offers a range of products: Day-Ahead Market for next-day electricity delivery across 15-minute blocks, Term-Ahead Market covering intra-day, day-ahead contingency, and longer contracts, and Real-Time Market with half-hour auction sessions. It also supports trading of Renewable Energy Certificates and Energy Saving Certificates to facilitate renewable energy procurement and energy efficiency. Based in New Delhi, India, the exchange aims to increase market accessibility and transparency and to improve the efficiency of trade execution in the electricity market.

Stable Money

Stable Money is a fixed-return investment platform that enables individuals to access fixed deposits, debt mutual funds, and bonds through RBI-regulated options. The service offers flexible plans, including monthly and quarterly payouts, with a focus on delivering higher returns alongside safety and long-term wealth growth. The platform emphasizes ease of use and protection, with certain options insured by the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC).
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