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Lightspeed Venture Partners (Seed)

VC
Menlo Park, CAWebsite

Lightspeed Venture Partners (Seed) is a Seed, Series A venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, CA investing in Enterprise, SaaS, Fintech. The firm typically writes $1.0M–$3.0M checks and has 15 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$1.0M–$3.0M
Portfolio
15 companies on record
Partners
10 listed
Stage
Seed, Series A
Sectors
Enterprise, SaaS, Fintech
HQ
Menlo Park, CA
AUM
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-05-22

Stage

Seed, Series A

Check Size

$1.0M – $3.0M

Portfolio

15+ companies

Team

10 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Multi-stage firm with a strong early-stage practice in enterprise software and infrastructure.

How Lightspeed Venture Partners (Seed) invests

Lightspeed Venture Partners (Seed) is a vc firm based in Menlo Park, CA. The firm invests at the Seed, Series A stages, with a focus on Enterprise, SaaS, Fintech.

Lightspeed Venture Partners (Seed) typically writes checks of $1.0M–$3.0M per investment.

Lightspeed Venture Partners (Seed) has backed 15 companies in our records, including Snap, Nutanix, Affirm.

Partners & Team

JM

Jonathan MacQuitty

Venture Partner

MS

Myia Silkaitis

Vice President of Investment Operations

AH

Aimee Hlousek

Executive Assistant

KK

Kelly Kung

Vice President

CL

Claudia Levan

Partner

MS

Mark Sui

Private Equity Partner

CC

Catherine Chen

Chief Financial Officer

LH

Lisa Han

Partner

TR

Tara Raam

Senior Compliance Director

EO

Eoin O'mahony

Data Science Partner

Industry Focus

Invests In

Enterprise
SaaS
Fintech

Portfolio Companies (15)

Other

SN

Snap

Consumer Platform
NU

Nutanix

Enterprise Infrastructure
AF

Affirm

Fintech
TH

ThoughtSpot

AN

Anthropic

WI

Wiz

UL

Ultima Genomics

RU

Rubrik

NA

Navan

FA

Faire

How to pitch Lightspeed Venture Partners (Seed)
  • Raising at Seed, Series A? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Enterprise, SaaS, Fintech — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $1.0M – $3.0M check.
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Jonathan MacQuitty, Venture Partner.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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