Lightspeed Venture Partners

2000

Founded

$6B

Funds Raised

6

# Funds

42

# Portfolio

93

# Investments

12

# Exits

8.65x

Avg Exit Multiple

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in the Enterprise and Consumer sectors. Over the past two decades, the Lightspeed team has backed hundreds of entrepreneurs and helped build more than 350 companies globally, including Snap, Nest, Nutanix, AppDynamics, MuleSoft, OYO, Guardant, StitchFix, and GrubHub. Lightspeed currently manages $7.9B across the global Lightspeed platform, with investment professionals and advisors in Silicon Valley, Israel, India, and China.

	ㅤTitle	Date
	ㅤHis company just raised $238m, so what’s eating Shlomo Kramer? \| Globes	October 1, 2023
	ㅤHis company just raised $238m, so what’s eating Shlomo Kramer? \| Globes	October 1, 2023
	ㅤWhat’s eating Shlomo Kramer? \| Globes	September 29, 2023
	ㅤHis company just raised $238m, so what’s eating Shlomo Kramer? \| Globes	September 29, 2023
	ㅤPalo Alto Networks in negotiations to acquire Talon Cyber Security in $600 million deal \| CTech	September 20, 2023
	ㅤPatronus AI conjures up an LLM evaluation tool for regulated industries \| Techcrunch	September 14, 2023
	ㅤCyber insurtech unicorn At-Bay lays off almost 10% of workforce \| CTech	September 12, 2023
	ㅤLightspeed and GamesBeat launch Game Changers top game startup list \| Venturebeat	August 16, 2023
	ㅤSingapore wealth management platform Endowus raises $35M \| Techcrunch	August 9, 2023
	ㅤDave Reed Joins YL Ventures as Chief Financial Officer \| FinSMEs	July 21, 2023

Name	Title	Contact
ㅤAmy Wu	Partner and Board Observer	1
ㅤDavid Gussarky	Partner	1
ㅤRavim Mhatre	Partner	1
ㅤBarry Eggers	Partner	1
ㅤTal Morgenstern	Partner	1

ㅤCompany Name	Status	Founded	Sector	Funding ($)
ㅤDescope	Active	2022	Enterprise, Cyber Security, Authentication	$53M
ㅤOligo Security	Active	2022	Enterprise, Cyber Security, Open Source	$20M
ㅤFORDEFI	Active	2021	Blockchain, DeFi, Fintech	$18M
ㅤSavvy	Active	2021	Enterprise, Cyber Security	$30M
ㅤCapitola	Active	2021	Fintech, Insurance, Marketplace	$15.6M

ㅤCompany Name	Date	Amount	Investors
ㅤCATO Networks Series G	September 2023	$238M	5
ㅤSavvy Series A	July 2023	$30M	3
ㅤHyperGuest Series A	July 2023	$23M	3
ㅤCapitola Series A	April 2023	$15.6M	2
ㅤWiz Series D	February 2023	$300M	3

	Fund Name	Date Announced
	ㅤLightspeed Venture Partners raises $1.05 billion	July 2018
	ㅤLightspeed Venture Partners raises $750 million	July 2018
	ㅤLightspeed Venture Partners raises $500 million	March 2016
	ㅤLightspeed Venture Partners raises $715 million	March 2016
	ㅤLightspeed Venture Partners raises $635 million	March 2016

ㅤInvestor Name	Investor Type	Founded	Portfolio
ㅤSequoia Capital	Venture Capital	1972	38
ㅤJerusalem Venture Partners	Venture Capital	1993	45
ㅤViola Ventures	Venture Capital	2000	57
ㅤPitango Venture Capital	Venture Capital	1993	57
ㅤBattery Ventures	Venture Capital	1983	43

Venture Capital

Investor Type

Enterprise Healthcare Cyber Security Fintech Technology

B2B B2B2C B2C B2G

Seed Series A Series B Series C Series D

ㅤCompany Name	Status	Sector	Funding	Employees	Employee Growth
ㅤDescope	Active	Enterprise, Cyber Security, Authentication	$53M	39	21.1%
ㅤOligo Security	Active	Enterprise, Cyber Security, Open Source	$20M	51	0.0%
ㅤFORDEFI	Active	Blockchain, DeFi, Fintech	$18M	31	17.7%
ㅤCapitola	Active	Fintech, Insurance, Marketplace	$15.6M	26	44.9%
ㅤSavvy	Active	Enterprise, Cyber Security	$30M	51	20.7%
ㅤBlink Ops	Active	DevOps, Enterprise, Development	$26M	48	-1.6%
ㅤTalon Cyber Security	Active	Enterprise, Cyber Security, Web Security, Web Browser	$126M	151	0.0%
ㅤHyperGuest	Active	Travel	$23M		0.0%
ㅤBalance	Active	Fintech, Payments, E-Commerce	$86.5M	100	12.8%
ㅤNoname Security	Active	Enterprise, Cyber Security, API, Data Leakage Prevention	$220M	471	14.3%
ㅤWiz	Active	Enterprise, Cyber Security, Cloud	$921M	1043	14.7%
ㅤReshuffle	Acquired		$10M		0.0%
ㅤKodiak.ai	Active	Automotive, ADAS, Autonomous, Trucks, LIDAR, RADAR, Ultrasound	$195M	182	5.8%
ㅤBuildots	Active	Construction, Analytics, Camera, Building, Digital Twin	$105.5M	222	-2.5%
ㅤNym	Active	Healthcare, Patient Data, Medical Coding, Risk Analytics	$49M	207	76.6%
ㅤEpsagon	Acquired	Enterprise, Information Technology (IT), Serverless, Microservices, Observability	$30.1M	46	0.0%
ㅤMemVerge	Active	Memory, Computing, Technology, Storage	$43.5M	81	5.3%
ㅤShookit	Acquired	Agritech, Pricing, Delivery			0.0%
ㅤCyCognito	Active	Enterprise, Cyber Security, Information Technology (IT)	$153M	174	-2.3%
ㅤUltima Genomics	Active	Life Sciences, Biotech, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Genome Sequencing	$600M	321	1.5%
ㅤVARADA	Acquired	Technology, Data Lake, Observability, DataOps	$22M	16	0.0%
ㅤAquant	Active	Industrial, Optimization, Service Recommendations, Predictive Analytics, Service Operations, Customer Service, Customer Support	$112.6M	153	-5.9%
ㅤAt-Bay	Active	Fintech, Cyber Security, Insurance, Cyber Risk, Claims, Underwriting	$296M	339	11.0%
ㅤElementor	Active	Website, Development	$65M	370	0.0%
ㅤDremio	Active	Data Lake, Virtualization, SQL, Cloud	$410M	337	-1.4%
ㅤNavan	Active	Enterprise, Travel	$1.31B	2178	363.8%
ㅤTonkean	Active	Enterprise, Intelligence, RPA, Workflow, Automation	$81.2M	64	-17.0%
ㅤAqua Security	Active	Enterprise, Cyber Security, Cloud Native, Container, DevSecOps	$265.5M	591	3.0%
ㅤMDClone	Active	Healthcare, Synthetic Data	$104M	139	0.0%
ㅤCATO Networks	Active	Enterprise, Network, Cyber Security, Threat Intelligence, Wide Area Network (WAN), Software Defined (SD)	$751M	748	7.8%
ㅤOosto	Active	Technology, Computer Vision, Image, Video Recognition, Video, Analytics, Face Recognition	$354M	112	-5.4%
ㅤTestim.io	Acquired	Enterprise, Information Technology (IT), Autonomous Software Testing	$18M		0.0%
ㅤAlooma	Acquired	Enterprise, Technology, ETL, Big Data, Cloud, Data Warehouse	$15M	9	0.0%
ㅤBlueVine	Active	Fraud Prevention, Fintech, Credit, Credit Lending, Invoice	$562.5M	588	3.2%
ㅤDatorama	Acquired	Marketing, Analytics, Data Analytics	$50M	339	0.0%
ㅤOverops	Active	Enterprise, Development, Software Lifecycle, Coding, DevOps	$49.5M	9	0.0%
ㅤOrigami Logic	Acquired	Marketing, Analytics	$64.5M	11	0.0%
ㅤPersonetics	Active	Fintech, Personal, Banking, Chatbot	$178M	340	-0.5%
ㅤInsightera	Acquired	Marketing	$6.5M		0.0%
ㅤSolarEdge	Public	Energy, Cleantech, Solar, Photovoltaics (PV)	$71.8M		0.0%
ㅤOutbrain	Public	Marketing, Content, Content Marketing, Content Discovery Platform	$394M	1158	-0.9%
ㅤGalileo Technology	Acquired	Chip, Semiconductor			0.0%

ㅤStartup	Date	Round Size	Valuation	Investors
ㅤCATO Networks Series G	September 2023	$238M	$3B	5
ㅤSavvy Series A	July 2023	$30M		3
ㅤHyperGuest Series A	July 2023	$23M		3
ㅤCapitola Series A	April 2023	$15.6M		2
ㅤWiz Series D	February 2023	$300M	$10B	3
ㅤDescope Seed	February 2023	$53M		12
ㅤOligo Security Series A	February 2023	$20M		16
ㅤFORDEFI Seed	November 2022	$18M		12
ㅤNavan Series G	October 2022	$154M	$9.2B	8
ㅤTalon Cyber Security Series A	August 2022	$100M		9
ㅤBalance Series B	July 2022	$56M		12
ㅤElementor Series B	June 2022	$50M		3
ㅤBuildots Series C	May 2022	$60M		6
ㅤBlink Ops Series A	March 2022	$20M		4
ㅤDremio Series E	January 2022	$160M	$2B	6
ㅤPersonetics Funding Round	January 2022	$85M		6
ㅤNoname Security Series C	December 2021	$135M	$1B	7
ㅤCyCognito Series C	December 2021	$100M	$800M	6
ㅤKodiak.ai Series B	November 2021	$125M		11
ㅤCATO Networks Series F	October 2021	$200M	$2.5B	6
ㅤNavan Series F	October 2021	$275M	$7.25B	6
ㅤAquant Series C	October 2021	$70M		5
ㅤBalance Series A	August 2021	$25M		8
ㅤBuildots Series B	August 2021	$30M		4
ㅤNym Series A	July 2021	$25M		5
ㅤAt-Bay Series D	July 2021	$185M	$1.35B	11
ㅤOosto Series C	July 2021	$235M		5
ㅤNoname Security Series B	June 2021	$60M		6
ㅤTalon Cyber Security Seed	April 2021	$26M		3
ㅤAqua Security Series E	March 2021	$135M	$1B	7
ㅤBalance Seed	February 2021	$5.5M		9
ㅤNavan Series E	January 2021	$115M	$5B	6
ㅤDremio Series D	January 2021	$135M	$1B	6
ㅤNoname Security Series A	December 2020	$25M		3
ㅤAt-Bay Series C	December 2020	$34M		7
ㅤCATO Networks Series E	November 2020	$131M	$1.13B	5
ㅤNym Series A	October 2020	$16.5M		7
ㅤVARADA Series A	September 2020	$12M	$50M	5
ㅤOosto Series B	September 2020	$43M		4
ㅤCyCognito Series B	July 2020	$30M		4
ㅤAqua Security Series D	May 2020	$30M		4
ㅤMemVerge Series B	May 2020	$19M		10
ㅤCATO Networks Series D	April 2020	$77M		6
ㅤTonkean Series A	March 2020	$24M		1
ㅤDremio Series C	March 2020	$70M		5
ㅤElementor Series A	February 2020	$15M		1
ㅤAt-Bay Series B	February 2020	$34M		5
ㅤEpsagon Series A	December 2019	$16M		3
ㅤCyCognito Series A	November 2019	$18M		3
ㅤBlueVine Series F	November 2019	$102.5M		12
ㅤMDClone Series B	July 2019	$26M		3
ㅤNavan Series D	June 2019	$250M	$4B	4
ㅤTestim.io Series B	May 2019	$10M		5
ㅤAqua Security Series C	April 2019	$62M		5
ㅤMemVerge Series A	April 2019	$24.5M		6
ㅤCATO Networks Series C	January 2019	$55M		7
ㅤVARADA Seed	January 2019	$7.5M		1
ㅤOosto Series A	December 2018	$15M		1
ㅤNavan Series C	November 2018	$154M	$1B	4
ㅤAquant Series A	October 2018	$10M		4
ㅤKodiak.ai Series A	July 2018	$40M		4
ㅤDremio Series B	July 2018	$30M		4
ㅤAt-Bay Series A	May 2018	$13M		3
ㅤBlueVine Series E	May 2018	$60M		6
ㅤNavan Series B	March 2018	$51M		2
ㅤEpsagon Seed	February 2018	$4.1M		3
ㅤMDClone Series A	January 2018	$10M		2
ㅤOrigami Logic Series D	December 2017	$15.2M		7
ㅤAt-Bay Seed	November 2017	$6M		3
ㅤTestim.io Series A	October 2017	$5.6M		4
ㅤNavan Series A	October 2017	$12.5M		2
ㅤAqua Security Series B	September 2017	$25M		4
ㅤOverops Series C	March 2017	$30M		3
ㅤNavan Series A	January 2017	$14.6M		3
ㅤBlueVine Series D	December 2016	$49M		6
ㅤDatorama Series C	August 2016	$32M		3
ㅤOverops Series B	March 2016	$15M		4
ㅤAlooma Series A	March 2016	$11.2M		2
ㅤBlueVine Series C	January 2016	$40M		6
ㅤOrigami Logic Series C	August 2015	$25M		5
ㅤNavan Seed	May 2015	$4M		2
ㅤBlueVine Series B	January 2015	$18.5M		4
ㅤBlueVine Series A	March 2014	$4M		5
ㅤAlooma Seed	March 2014	$3.8M		2
ㅤOrigami Logic Series B	December 2013	$15M		3
ㅤOutbrain Series E	September 2013	$35M		8
ㅤInsightera Series A	June 2013	$5M		2
ㅤPersonetics Series B	May 2013	$11.5M		3
ㅤOrigami Logic Series A	October 2012	$9.3M		2
ㅤOutbrain Series D	November 2011	$35M		3
ㅤSolarEdge	October 2011	$37M		7
ㅤOutbrain Series B	January 2009	$12M		6
ㅤOutbrain Series A	January 2008	$5M		5

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ㅤInvestor Name	Investor Type	Founded	Portfolio	AUM ($)
ㅤSequoia Capital	Venture Capital	1972	38	$18.12B
ㅤJerusalem Venture Partners	Venture Capital	1993	45	$1.4B
ㅤViola Ventures	Venture Capital	2000	57	$1.27B
ㅤPitango Venture Capital	Venture Capital	1993	57	$2.3B
ㅤBattery Ventures	Venture Capital	1983	43	$8.9B
ㅤGlilot Capital Partners	Venture Capital	2011	32	$600M
ㅤVertex Ventures	Venture Capital	1997	51	$1B
ㅤiAngels	Crowdfunding	2014	44	$300M
ㅤ83North	Venture Capital	2006	35	$1.85B
ㅤInnovation Endeavors	Venture Capital	2010	28	$833.5M
ㅤIntel Capital	Corporate Venture Capital	1991	42
ㅤLightspeed Venture Partners	Venture Capital	2000	42	$6B
ㅤUpWest Labs	Venture Capital	2012	30	$145M
ㅤBessemer Venture Partners	Venture Capital	1911	47	$12.97B
ㅤStageOne Ventures	Venture Capital	2001	35	$456M
ㅤTLV Partners	Venture Capital	2015	38	$1.05B
ㅤInsight Partners	Venture Capital	1995	86	$90B
ㅤGV	Corporate Venture Capital	2009	9	$4.5B
ㅤAccel Partners	Venture Capital	1983	25	$1.23B
ㅤGemini Israel Ventures	Venture Capital	1993	13	$700M
ㅤSoftbank	Venture Capital, Investment Firm	1986	20	$208B
ㅤCanaan Partners	Venture Capital	1987	10	$6B
ㅤMizMaa Ventures	Venture Capital	2017	22	$100M
ㅤMarker	Venture Capital	2011	12
ㅤDell Technologies Capital	Corporate Venture Capital	2012	19
ㅤKhosla	Venture Capital	2004	15	$6.5B
ㅤNorwest Venture Partners	Venture Capital	1961	19	$12.5B
ㅤOrbiMed	Venture Capital	2010	9	$15B
ㅤQualcomm Ventures	Corporate Venture Capital	2000	19
ㅤGenesis Partners	Venture Capital	1996	9
ㅤShlomo Kramer	Angel		18
ㅤZeev Ventures	Venture Capital	2007	33	$1.65B
ㅤZohar Zisapel	Angel		13
ㅤF2 Venture Capital	Venture Capital	2016	29	$385M
ㅤGlenRock Israel	Private Equity	2003	10
ㅤSpider Capital	Venture Capital	2015	7	$40M
ㅤIndex Ventures	Venture Capital	1996	12	$9.6B
ㅤRhodium	Venture Capital	1999	8
ㅤRobert Bosch Venture Capital	Corporate Venture Capital	2007	10
ㅤaMoon	Venture Capital	2016	19	$1.25B