Lightspeed Venture Partners

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.

Zepto is an e-grocery company specializing in delivering daily essentials and grocery items. It offers a wide range of products including fruits, vegetables, snacks, and electronics, serving various retail, food and beverage, and logistics industries.

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.

Seismic is a global leader in enablement, providing a unified platform that empowers customer-facing teams with skills, content, tools, and insights to drive revenue growth. Serving over 2,000 organizations worldwide, Seismic automates sales material creation, improves close rates, and enhances marketing impact.

Affirm is a financial technology company that offers consumer installment loans at the point of sale through its Buy with Affirm platform. Shoppers can select Affirm at checkout and pay for purchases in fixed monthly installments with real-time decisioning and upfront, transparent terms, avoiding hidden fees. The company provides a digital and mobile‑first platform that includes a point‑of‑sale payment solution for merchants and a consumer app, and it partners with thousands of merchants across categories such as home, travel, electronics, apparel, and beauty. Revenue comes from merchant networks and related services, including virtual card networks, with the majority of business generated in the United States, and ongoing activity in Canada and other regions. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco with an additional office in Chicago, Affirm aims to offer an accessible alternative to traditional credit that improves budgeting and financial clarity for consumers.

Netskope is a cloud security company that provides a SaaS-based platform offering real-time data and threat protection for enterprises worldwide. Its key products include Netskope Security Cloud, Cloud XDTM, NewEdge security network, CASB, SWG, and professional services. Serving various industries such as financial services, government, healthcare, high-tech, manufacturing, and retail, Netskope enables secure access to cloud services, websites, and private applications from any device.

MuleSoft provides a software platform called Anypoint Platform that enables organizations to connect applications, data, and devices through API-led connectivity, creating application networks that integrate SaaS, on-premises, cloud, mobile, and data sources. Using APIs as the digital glue, the platform supports reusable building blocks to compose applications and facilitate secure data sharing across environments. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Francisco, MuleSoft operates as part of Salesforce and has alliances with strategic partners such as IQVIA. The company helps re-architect legacy and proprietary systems to improve agility and enable rapid integration across enterprise ecosystems.

Aquantia Corp specializes in the design, development, and marketing of high-speed communication integrated circuits (IC) for Ethernet connectivity across various markets, including data centers, enterprise infrastructure, and access solutions. The company’s Ethernet technology serves as a vital interface between high-speed analog signals and digital information, facilitating improved communication in computing and networking equipment. With a focus on providing advanced data speeds, Aquantia addresses the increasing demand for bandwidth driven by the exponential growth of Internet Protocol (IP) traffic. The firm benefits from a team of engineers with extensive experience in technology development and silicon design, having previously been involved in the deployment of Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet products.