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Lightspeed Scout Program

VC
Menlo Park, CAWebsite
Stage

Pre-Seed

Check Size

$50K – $250K

Portfolio

22+ companies

Team

45 partners

Investor activity
Last known investment: 2024Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Scout checks at pre-seed via operator/investor scouts connected to Lightspeed’s core platform.

Meet the Team

AM

Antoine Moyroud

Partner

Europe
ai
JA

James Alcorn

Partner

US
ai
DS

Dr. Shelley Chu

Partner

US
ai
PM

Paul Murphy

Partner

Europe
ai
AT

Alex Taussig

Partner

US
ai
JM

Jonathan MacQuitty

Venture Partner

MS

Myia Silkaitis

Vice President of Investment Operations

TR

Tara Raam

Senior Compliance Director

AH

Aimee Hlousek

Executive Assistant

KK

Kelly Kung

Vice President

CL

Claudia Levan

Partner

MS

Mark Sui

Private Equity Partner

EO

Eoin O'mahony

Data Science Partner

CC

Catherine Chen

Chief Financial Officer

LH

Lisa Han

Partner

NQ

Nicole Quinn

Partner

US
ai
PN

Peter Nieh

Co-Founder

US
ai
RM

Ravi Mhatre

Partner & Co-Founder

Global
US
AS

Alexander Schmitt

Partner

Europe
enterprise
AY

Amber Yang

Partner

US
ai
AV

Anoushka Vaswani

Partner

US
ai
AJ

Arif Janmohamed

Partner

US
ai
BM

Bucky Moore

Partner

US
CL

Connor Love

Partner

US
ai
EC

Eli Conniff

Partner

US
ai
GG

Gaurav Gupta

Partner

US
ai
DB

Dr. Brenton Fargnoli

Partner

US
growth
WK

Will Kohler

Partner

US
ai
GC

Guru Chahal

Partner

US
JO

Justin Overdorff

Partner

US
growth
RJ

Raviraj Jain

Partner

US
growth
TM

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Israel
ai
YW

Yonit Wiseman

Partner

Israel
AF

Aaron Frank

Partner

US
ai
BE

Barry Eggers

Co-Founder

US
ai
JE

James Ephrati

Partner

US
YC

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Israel
DG

David Gussarsky

Partner

Israel
health
SP

Sachin Patel

Partner

US
fintech
SA

Shaurya Aggarwal

Partner

US
health
BS

Bejul Somaia

Partner

Global
US
AD

Amish Desai

Partner, Growth Private Equity

US
ai
FF

Faraz Fatemi

Partner

US
ai
SE

Sam Eisler

Partner

US
ai
DG

Dr. Galym Imanbayev

Partner

US
ai

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Enterprise
SaaS
Security
Developer Tools
AI / ML
Fintech

Portfolio Companies (22)

2024

AN

Anthropic

AI·Series D

2023

SC

ScaleOps

Series A
IN

Inworld AI

Seed
WI

Wiz

Series D
MI

Mistral AI

Seed
PI

Pika

Series A

2022

BE

Believer

Series A
MA

Magic Eden

Series A

2021

CL

ClickHouse

Series B
CL

ClickUp

Series C

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