Arif Janmohamed
Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
San Francisco, United States
Arif Janmohamed is a Series A investor at Lightspeed Venture Partners in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Arif Janmohamed is based of San Francisco, California and is the Venture Partner of Lightspeed. Arif previously worked at Cisco Systems as a Manager, Corporate Business Development. Arif Janmohamed attended the University of Waterloo.
- Total investments:
- 106
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 37%
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Industries Arif Janmohamed invests in
Stages Arif Janmohamed invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 21 (20%)
- Artificial Intelligence 18 (17%)
- SaaS 10 (9%)
- Analytics 10 (9%)
- Information Technology 9 (8%)
Stage
- Series A 22 (21%)
- Series B 20 (19%)
- Series C 18 (17%)
- Seed 14 (13%)
- Series D 13 (12%)
Country
- United States 35 (33%)
- Brazil 1 (1%)
- New Zealand 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Avarra is an enterprise avatar and AI simulation firm. The first application provides realistic 3D AI avatars trained on web-meeting transcripts and best practice playbooks to correctly imitate client sales conversations. | $17M / Series A / Oct 04, 2026 | ||
| Ande develops an AI-enabled B2B platform for managing corporate entertainment and hospitality operations. The company provides a hosted application that connects enterprises with restaurants and event venues to handle discovery, personalized venue selection, booking, and approvals. Its software enforces enterprise policies, supports procurement workflows, and generates structured expense and invoice data. Ande integrates with existing expense management systems to automate reimbursements and improve spend visibility. The company also offers a mobile application that allows employees and client-facing teams to book events, confirm compliance, and submit receipts while on the move. Its tools are used by corporate teams to coordinate board dinners, client meetings, and other hospitality events while reducing manual administration and paperwork. | $52M / Series A / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Straiker builds AI-native security solutions tp protect customers from a spectrum of security & safety risks. | $64M / Series A / Jun 29, 2026 | ||
| Zocks is a real-time insight and privacy for enhanced video calls. It was founded in 2022 and was headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $45M / Series B / Jan 26, 2026 | ||
| EvenUp is a legal tech company that develops cloud and AI-based legal case management solutions for personal injury AI and document generation. Its ligation cost software values personal injury claims and automates aspects of personal injury legal practices. | $150M / Series E / Oct 07, 2025 | ||
| AppZen is an artificial intelligence platform for modern finance teams, helping them to reduce spending, comply with policy, and streamline processes. It automates manual processes, uncovers problems, and optimizes decision-making for enterprises around the globe, including one-fourth of the Fortune 500. The company focuses on areas such as expensereport auditing, accounts payable (AP) automation, and compliance monitoring to help finance teams reduce manual work, avoid errors, and manage risk.The platform combines patented deep learning, computer vision, and semantic analysis with intelligence from thousands of online data sources to understand financial transactions in a business context and make decisions before those transactions happen. | $180M / Series D / Sep 22, 2025 | ||
| Rocksalt operates an AI marketing coach platform that provides machine learning solutions for businesses. The company focuses on developing innovative technologies that enhance data analysis and decision-making capabilities. Rocksalt offers a range of services, including predictive analytics, natural language processing, and custom AI modeldevelopment, tailored to meet the specific needs of various industries. The firm emphasizes collaboration with clients to create effective strategies that leverage AI for improved operational efficiency.It identifies high-value conversations, surfaces relevant discussions, and delivers personalized email digests and daily action suggestions to drive visibility and thought leadership. Plans range from a free tier that supports limited influencers and Slack channels to paid tiers with expanded engagement, analytics, team access, and CRM integration. | $3.5M / Seed / Jul 24, 2025 | ||
| Omnifold is a software development company that focuses on developing AI-powered supply chain software to deliver self-improving forecasting algorithms for complex business operations. | $28M / Series A / May 01, 2025 | ||
| Endor Labs is the fastest-growing application security company. Founded by seasoned entrepreneurs who previously built category-defining companies, and supported by a world-class R&D team, over a third holding PhDs, Endor Labs delivers a modern Application Security platform tailored for today's software development revolution. It secureseverything from 40-year-old C/C++ code to vibe-coded applications. As teams increasingly adopt AI coding assistants and accelerate code deployment, they're inundated with security alerts lacking context. Endor Labs addresses this by deeply analyzing code execution and dependencies, constructing a comprehensive call graph to identify and prioritize the most pertinent risks, facilitating swift remediation. The company has raised over $163 million from top investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, DFJ Growth, Coatue, Salesforce Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, Section 32, and Citi Ventures. Endor Labs counts among its customers leading technology, AI, and financial services companies, such as OpenAI, Cursor, Robinhood, Dropbox, Peloton, Snowflake, Rubrik, and Citi. | $93M / Series B / Apr 23, 2025 | ||
| Redpanda is pioneering the agentic data plane - a new category in AI infrastructure that makes it simple and secure to connect AI agents with enterprise data and systems. Built on a multi-modal data streaming engine, Redpanda empowers agentic applications that reason and act in real-time with speed, autonomy, and precision. Global leaders includingActivision Blizzard, Cisco, Moody's, Texas Instruments, Vodafone and 2 of the top 5 banks in the U.S. rely on Redpanda to process hundreds of terabytes of data a day. Backed by premier venture investors Lightspeed, GV and Haystack VC, Redpanda is a diverse, people-first organization with teams distributed around the globe. To learn more, visit our website at redpanda.com and follow us on X at @redpandadata. | $100M / Series D / Apr 03, 2025 | ||
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Co-Investors
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies. Lightspeed Venture Partners invests in various sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social.
Lightspeed Venture Partners Contacts
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Michael Mignano
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What does Arif Janmohamed invest in?
Arif Janmohamed invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 106 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Arif Janmohamed last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Arif Janmohamed closed in Oct 2026. Shizune tracks 106 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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