LI

Lightspeed Venture Partners

VC
US-SFWebsite
Stage

Seed, Series A, Series B

Check Size

$1.0M – $50.0M

Portfolio

29+ companies

Team

56 partners

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

Investment Thesis

Multi-stage VC firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.

How Lightspeed Venture Partners invests

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a vc firm based in US-SF. The firm invests at the Seed, Series A, Series B stages, with a focus on Enterprise, Consumer, Healthcare, Other, AI / ML.

Lightspeed Venture Partners typically writes checks of $1.0M–$50.0M per investment.

Investing since at least 2008, Lightspeed Venture Partners has backed 29 companies in our records, including Anthropic, Mistral AI, Wiz. Its most recent recorded investment was in 2024.

Meet the Team

AM

Antoine Moyroud

Partner

Europe
ai
AJ

Arif Janmohamed

Partner

US
ai
JE

James Ephrati

Partner

US
FF

Faraz Fatemi

Partner

US
ai
AF

Aaron Frank

Partner

US
fintech
DG

David Gussarsky

Partner

Israel
health
YW

Yonit Wiseman

Partner

Israel
AS

Alexander Schmitt

Partner

Europe
enterprise
YC

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Israel
NM

Naveed Matinfar

Partner

US
DS

Dr. Shelley Chu

Partner

US
ai
AV

Anoushka Vaswani

Partner

US
ai
HT

Hemant Taneja

Managing Director

Healthcare
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

Partner, Growth Private Equity

US
EO

Eoin O'mahony

Data Science Partner

CC

Catherine Chen

Chief Financial Officer

LH

Lisa Han

Partner

US
CL

Connor Love

Partner

US
ai
DB

Dr. Brenton Fargnoli

Partner

US
growth
DG

Dr. Galym Imanbayev

Partner

US
ai
JA

James Alcorn

Partner

US
ai
PM

Paul Murphy

Partner

Europe
ai
TM

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Israel
ai
MM

Michael Mignano

Partner

US
KZ

Kat Zhang

Partner

US
SP

Sachin Patel

Partner

US
JS

Justin Shen

Partner

US
WK

Will Kohler

Partner

US
SA

Shaurya Aggarwal

Partner

US
MB

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner

US
BE

Barry Eggers

Co-Founder

US
GG

Gaurav Gupta

Partner

US
ai
RJ

Raviraj Jain

Partner

US
growth
NI

Nnamdi Iregbulem

Partner

US
SE

Sam Eisler

Partner

US
BM

Bucky Moore

Partner

US
EC

Eli Conniff

Partner

US
ai
GC

Guru Chahal

Partner

US
NQ

Nicole Quinn

Partner

US
ai
IK

Isaac Kim

Partner, Growth Private Equity

US
LZ

Lina Zhuo

Partner, Growth Private Equity

US
PN

Peter Nieh

Co-Founder

US
AT

Alex Taussig

Partner

US
ai
JO

Justin Overdorff

Partner

US
growth
SD

Sebastian Duesterhoeft

Partner

US
RM

Ravi Mhatre

Partner & Co-Founder

Global
US
JS

John Sansbury

Partner, Growth Private Equity

US
AD

Amish Desai

Partner, Growth Private Equity

US
BS

Bejul Somaia

Partner

Global
US
AY

Amber Yang

Partner

US
ai

Industry Focus

Invests In

Enterprise
Consumer
Healthcare
Other
AI / ML

Portfolio Companies (29)

2024

AN

Anthropic

AI Safety and Research·Series D

2023

MI

Mistral AI

Seed
WI

Wiz

Series D

2022

MA

Magic Eden

Series A
BE

Believer

Series A
ME

Methodical Games

Seed
FO

Found

Series B

2021

AL

Alloy

Series C
CL

ClickHouse

Series B
CL

ClickUp

Series C
How to pitch Lightspeed Venture Partners
  • Raising at Seed, Series A, Series B? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Enterprise, Consumer, Healthcare — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $1.0M – $50.0M check.
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Antoine Moyroud, Partner.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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