Lightspeed Europe

Lightspeed Europe is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage and growth investments across various sectors, including consumer, health, and fintech. With its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and regional offices in Europe, Israel, India, and China, Lightspeed aims to identify and support innovative companies that can disrupt traditional markets. The firm invests in a wide range of industries, such as enterprise technology, e-commerce, software, and biotechnology, providing both equity and debt financing. Lightspeed has a particular interest in technology-led businesses, as well as opportunities in advertising, media, healthcare, education, and retail. Its investment strategy emphasizes the provision of capital along with ongoing consulting and advisory services to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses effectively.

Shaurya Aggarwal

Partner

Vaibhav Agrawal

Associate Partner

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner and Head of Gaming

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Akshay Bhushan

Venture Partner

Taggart Bonham

Partner

Ashley Brasier

Partner

Guru Chahal

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Amish Desai

Partner

Barry Eggers

Founder and Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

James Ephrati

Partner

Faraz Fatemi

Partner, Consumer

Jack Fowler

Partner

Aaron Frank

Venture Partner

Vivek Gambhir

Venture Partner

Gaurav Gupta

Partner

David Gussarsky

Partner

Lisa Han

Partner

Dat Han

Senior Associate

Rob Horton JD

COO

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Nnamdi Iregbulem

Partner

Raviraj Jain

Partner

Arif Janmohamed

Partner

Ansaf Kareem

Partner

Issac Kim

Partner

Harsha Kumar

Associate Partner

Pinn Lawjindakul

Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Jeremy Liew

Partner

Connor Love

Partner

John Luongo

Venture Partner

Natalie Luu

Partner

Naveed Matinfar

Partner

Arsham Memarzadeh

Partner

Michael Mignano

Partner, Consumer

Hemant Mohapatra

Partner

Andrew Moley

Operating Partner and CFO

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Antoine Moyroud

Partner

Eric O'Brien

Affiliated Partner

Justin Overdorff

Partner

Apoorva Pandhi

Associate

Nicole Quinn

General Partner

Adrian Radu

Partner

Alexander Schmitt

Partner

Shan Shan

Partner

Aditya Sharma

Partner, Growth Equity - India and Asia-Pacific

Justin Shen

Partner

Justin Shen

Partner

Alex Taussig

Partner

John Thompson

Venture Partner

John Thompson

Venture Partner

Anoushka Vaswani

Partner

Nathan Wu

Partner, Growth

Mark Xu

Partner

Mark Xu

Partner

Jerry Ye

Partner, Data Platform

Past deals in Visual Search

Glean

Series C in 2022
Scio is a search engine that aims to help in the finding of any piece of data via any tool in any company. The company's software integrates with multiple platforms to find precise data points and provide relevant search results, allowing employees to find required data points based on keywords.

Scopio

Venture Round in 2021
Scopio, LLC is an image search engine and licensing platform that focuses on trending images and videos from social media. Established in 2015 and headquartered in New York, the company utilizes artificial intelligence to facilitate the discovery and licensing of user-generated content. Its platform allows businesses, brands, non-governmental organizations, and live events to access a vast library of authentic and diverse photos, enabling them to customize messages and build their visual content libraries. Additionally, Scopio streamlines the copyright process for these images and videos, making it easier for users to search, license, publish, and analyze visual content sourced from social media.

Glean

Series B in 2021
Scio is a search engine that aims to help in the finding of any piece of data via any tool in any company. The company's software integrates with multiple platforms to find precise data points and provide relevant search results, allowing employees to find required data points based on keywords.

Verishop

Series B in 2020
Verishop is an online shopping portal based in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2018. It positions itself as a premium lifestyle destination, offering a curated selection of elevated brands in fashion, beauty, home, and more. The platform connects independent brands and creators with consumers, facilitating the discovery of unique products alongside an efficient online purchasing process and fast delivery. Verishop aims to provide a quality-driven shopping experience, making it a go-to resource for customers seeking luxury and distinctive items.

Verishop

Venture Round in 2019
Verishop is an online shopping portal based in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2018. It positions itself as a premium lifestyle destination, offering a curated selection of elevated brands in fashion, beauty, home, and more. The platform connects independent brands and creators with consumers, facilitating the discovery of unique products alongside an efficient online purchasing process and fast delivery. Verishop aims to provide a quality-driven shopping experience, making it a go-to resource for customers seeking luxury and distinctive items.

Verishop

Series B in 2019
Verishop is an online shopping portal based in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2018. It positions itself as a premium lifestyle destination, offering a curated selection of elevated brands in fashion, beauty, home, and more. The platform connects independent brands and creators with consumers, facilitating the discovery of unique products alongside an efficient online purchasing process and fast delivery. Verishop aims to provide a quality-driven shopping experience, making it a go-to resource for customers seeking luxury and distinctive items.

Glean

Series A in 2019
Scio is a search engine that aims to help in the finding of any piece of data via any tool in any company. The company's software integrates with multiple platforms to find precise data points and provide relevant search results, allowing employees to find required data points based on keywords.

Verishop

Seed Round in 2018
Verishop is an online shopping portal based in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2018. It positions itself as a premium lifestyle destination, offering a curated selection of elevated brands in fashion, beauty, home, and more. The platform connects independent brands and creators with consumers, facilitating the discovery of unique products alongside an efficient online purchasing process and fast delivery. Verishop aims to provide a quality-driven shopping experience, making it a go-to resource for customers seeking luxury and distinctive items.

Eyeview

Series D in 2016
Eyeview Inc. develops video advertising technology solutions. It offers brands with ROI on their video advertising spend. It offers VideoIQ, a video platform that provides campaign, data, and media management services, as well as programmatic video creative services. The company also provides lead generation solution for clients in automotive industry that enables brands to drive leads with personalized video ads; in-store solution that leverages past purchase behavior to identify key segments for CPG and shopper marketers; in-store sales solution that enable retail marketers to drive sales; and online booking solution for travel marketers. Eyeview Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in New York, New York.

Giphy

Series C in 2016
Giphy, Inc. is an online platform that operates a search engine for users to search, share, and discover animated GIFs across various categories, including emotions, food, animals, and entertainment. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, Giphy organizes GIFs to enhance user experience and facilitates sharing through social media channels. The platform not only allows users to upload their own GIFs but also collaborates with brands and artists to create original content. Giphy aims to evolve beyond a simple search engine into a community that caters to GIF enthusiasts and creators, fostering engagement and creativity within the realm of animated visual communication. As of May 2020, Giphy operates as a subsidiary of Instagram, LLC.

Giphy

Series B in 2015
Giphy, Inc. is an online platform that operates a search engine for users to search, share, and discover animated GIFs across various categories, including emotions, food, animals, and entertainment. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, Giphy organizes GIFs to enhance user experience and facilitates sharing through social media channels. The platform not only allows users to upload their own GIFs but also collaborates with brands and artists to create original content. Giphy aims to evolve beyond a simple search engine into a community that caters to GIF enthusiasts and creators, fostering engagement and creativity within the realm of animated visual communication. As of May 2020, Giphy operates as a subsidiary of Instagram, LLC.

Eyeview

Series D in 2014
Eyeview Inc. develops video advertising technology solutions. It offers brands with ROI on their video advertising spend. It offers VideoIQ, a video platform that provides campaign, data, and media management services, as well as programmatic video creative services. The company also provides lead generation solution for clients in automotive industry that enables brands to drive leads with personalized video ads; in-store solution that leverages past purchase behavior to identify key segments for CPG and shopper marketers; in-store sales solution that enable retail marketers to drive sales; and online booking solution for travel marketers. Eyeview Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in New York, New York.

Eyeview

Series C in 2013
Eyeview Inc. develops video advertising technology solutions. It offers brands with ROI on their video advertising spend. It offers VideoIQ, a video platform that provides campaign, data, and media management services, as well as programmatic video creative services. The company also provides lead generation solution for clients in automotive industry that enables brands to drive leads with personalized video ads; in-store solution that leverages past purchase behavior to identify key segments for CPG and shopper marketers; in-store sales solution that enable retail marketers to drive sales; and online booking solution for travel marketers. Eyeview Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in New York, New York.

Eyeview

Series B in 2012
Eyeview Inc. develops video advertising technology solutions. It offers brands with ROI on their video advertising spend. It offers VideoIQ, a video platform that provides campaign, data, and media management services, as well as programmatic video creative services. The company also provides lead generation solution for clients in automotive industry that enables brands to drive leads with personalized video ads; in-store solution that leverages past purchase behavior to identify key segments for CPG and shopper marketers; in-store sales solution that enable retail marketers to drive sales; and online booking solution for travel marketers. Eyeview Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in New York, New York.

Eyeview

Series A in 2010
Eyeview Inc. develops video advertising technology solutions. It offers brands with ROI on their video advertising spend. It offers VideoIQ, a video platform that provides campaign, data, and media management services, as well as programmatic video creative services. The company also provides lead generation solution for clients in automotive industry that enables brands to drive leads with personalized video ads; in-store solution that leverages past purchase behavior to identify key segments for CPG and shopper marketers; in-store sales solution that enable retail marketers to drive sales; and online booking solution for travel marketers. Eyeview Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in New York, New York.

Kosmix

Series D in 2008
Kosmix is a web navigation platform that enables users to explore the Internet by topic. It presents a dashboard filled with relevant multimedia content, including videos, photos, news, and community discussions, all organized into magazine-style topic pages. This categorization engine facilitates user navigation even when they are uncertain about their specific interests. Founded in 2005 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman in Mountain View, California, Kosmix originally began as a vertical search engine with the introduction of RightHealth.com, which has since become a prominent health site. Over time, the company transitioned to a broader approach, expanding its services to cover a wider array of topics. Kosmix has received funding from notable investors, including Accel Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The founders previously established Junglee, the first shopping search engine, and contributed to Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

Eyeview

Seed Round in 2008
Eyeview Inc. develops video advertising technology solutions. It offers brands with ROI on their video advertising spend. It offers VideoIQ, a video platform that provides campaign, data, and media management services, as well as programmatic video creative services. The company also provides lead generation solution for clients in automotive industry that enables brands to drive leads with personalized video ads; in-store solution that leverages past purchase behavior to identify key segments for CPG and shopper marketers; in-store sales solution that enable retail marketers to drive sales; and online booking solution for travel marketers. Eyeview Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in New York, New York.

Kosmix

Series C in 2007
Kosmix is a web navigation platform that enables users to explore the Internet by topic. It presents a dashboard filled with relevant multimedia content, including videos, photos, news, and community discussions, all organized into magazine-style topic pages. This categorization engine facilitates user navigation even when they are uncertain about their specific interests. Founded in 2005 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman in Mountain View, California, Kosmix originally began as a vertical search engine with the introduction of RightHealth.com, which has since become a prominent health site. Over time, the company transitioned to a broader approach, expanding its services to cover a wider array of topics. Kosmix has received funding from notable investors, including Accel Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The founders previously established Junglee, the first shopping search engine, and contributed to Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

TheFind

Series C in 2007
TheFind applies patented ecommerce technology to make the consumer shopping experience easy, efficient and fun. TheFind's powerful shopping search works across the Web looking through every store to quickly find you the best deal and even that hard-to-find item. Uniquely personalized just for you, TheFind continuously learns your taste and style from your activity, likes and purchases, showing you more from your favorite stores and brands. Finally, TheFind organizes all your shopping activity to quickly see what you've been looking for and what you’ve bought, and automatically tracks your shipments, returns and receipts. Experience TheFind by downloading our app on your iPad, iPhone or Android device, or visit us on the Web at www.thefind.com. TheFind is venture funded by Bain Capital Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures and is a San Francisco and Silicon Valley-based company.

TheFind

Series B in 2006
TheFind applies patented ecommerce technology to make the consumer shopping experience easy, efficient and fun. TheFind's powerful shopping search works across the Web looking through every store to quickly find you the best deal and even that hard-to-find item. Uniquely personalized just for you, TheFind continuously learns your taste and style from your activity, likes and purchases, showing you more from your favorite stores and brands. Finally, TheFind organizes all your shopping activity to quickly see what you've been looking for and what you’ve bought, and automatically tracks your shipments, returns and receipts. Experience TheFind by downloading our app on your iPad, iPhone or Android device, or visit us on the Web at www.thefind.com. TheFind is venture funded by Bain Capital Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures and is a San Francisco and Silicon Valley-based company.

Kosmix

Series B in 2006
Kosmix is a web navigation platform that enables users to explore the Internet by topic. It presents a dashboard filled with relevant multimedia content, including videos, photos, news, and community discussions, all organized into magazine-style topic pages. This categorization engine facilitates user navigation even when they are uncertain about their specific interests. Founded in 2005 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman in Mountain View, California, Kosmix originally began as a vertical search engine with the introduction of RightHealth.com, which has since become a prominent health site. Over time, the company transitioned to a broader approach, expanding its services to cover a wider array of topics. Kosmix has received funding from notable investors, including Accel Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The founders previously established Junglee, the first shopping search engine, and contributed to Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

Kosmix

Series A in 2005
Kosmix is a web navigation platform that enables users to explore the Internet by topic. It presents a dashboard filled with relevant multimedia content, including videos, photos, news, and community discussions, all organized into magazine-style topic pages. This categorization engine facilitates user navigation even when they are uncertain about their specific interests. Founded in 2005 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman in Mountain View, California, Kosmix originally began as a vertical search engine with the introduction of RightHealth.com, which has since become a prominent health site. Over time, the company transitioned to a broader approach, expanding its services to cover a wider array of topics. Kosmix has received funding from notable investors, including Accel Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The founders previously established Junglee, the first shopping search engine, and contributed to Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

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.

TheFind

Series A in 2005
TheFind applies patented ecommerce technology to make the consumer shopping experience easy, efficient and fun. TheFind's powerful shopping search works across the Web looking through every store to quickly find you the best deal and even that hard-to-find item. Uniquely personalized just for you, TheFind continuously learns your taste and style from your activity, likes and purchases, showing you more from your favorite stores and brands. Finally, TheFind organizes all your shopping activity to quickly see what you've been looking for and what you’ve bought, and automatically tracks your shipments, returns and receipts. Experience TheFind by downloading our app on your iPad, iPhone or Android device, or visit us on the Web at www.thefind.com. TheFind is venture funded by Bain Capital Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures and is a San Francisco and Silicon Valley-based company.

Quiver, Inc.

Series B in 2000
Quiver, Inc. develops and markets information management software that provides the most intuitive and accurate categorization of enterprise and online content. Building on its core technology competencies in information classification, ranking and retrieval, the company delivers the Quiver Knowledge Suite(TM) (QKS). This portfolio of information management products is making Global 2000 enterprises more efficient and more productive. QKS Classifier(TM), the company's flagship product, is an end-to-end categorization and taxonomy application that provides the most accurate and efficient way to organize, manage and distribute information. QKS Topic Advisor(TM), the newest product in the Quiver Knowledge Suite, automatically generates taxonomy topics for human review speeding initial implementation and enhancing the management and growth of existing directories.
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