Lightspeed Venture Partners — Seed & Series A VC Firm ($500K–$7.0M Checks)
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a Seed, Series A venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California investing in AI / ML, Enterprise, Other. The firm typically writes $500K–$7.0M checks and has 7 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $500K–$7.0M
- Portfolio
- 7 companies on record
- Partners
- 1 listed
- Stage
- Seed, Series A
- Sectors
- AI / ML, Enterprise, Other, SaaS, Security, Fintech
- HQ
- Menlo Park, California
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-10-07
Seed, Series A
$500K – $7.0M
7+ companies
1 partner
Investment Thesis
Lightspeed backs technical companies across AI infrastructure and enterprise software. It is appropriate for a standout seed company with broad platform potential.
How Lightspeed Venture Partners invests
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a vc firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm invests at the Seed, Series A stages, with a focus on AI / ML, Enterprise, Other, SaaS, Security.
Lightspeed Venture Partners typically writes checks of $500K–$7.0M per investment.
Lightspeed Venture Partners has backed 7 companies in our records, including Naboo, Rubrik, Netskope.
Partners & Team
Ravi Mhatre
Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (7)
Other
Naboo
AI-powered event procurement platform
Rubrik
Data security and cyber resilience software
Netskope
Cloud security and SASE platform
Navan
Travel and expense management platform
Abridge
AI clinical documentation platform for healthcare
Glean
Enterprise AI search and knowledge platform
Skild AI
AI robotics company
- •Raising at Seed, Series A? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in AI / ML, Enterprise, Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $7.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Ravi Mhatre, Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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