# James Ephrati

> James Ephrati is a Series F investor at Lightspeed Venture Partners backing Information Technology. See 38 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 38
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 34%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesephrati

James Ephrati is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He was employed by Battery Ventures, Moelis & Company, Bedrock Group, and Citi before that.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 6 | 16% |
| Analytics | 5 | 13% |
| Enterprise Software | 5 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 13% |
| Software | 4 | 11% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series F | 8 | 21% |
| Series B | 6 | 16% |
| Series D | 6 | 16% |
| Series C | 5 | 13% |
| Series E | 5 | 13% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 34% |
| Israel | 2 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ramp | Ramp is a financial technology company that develops software for corporate spend management, finance operations, and business payments. The company provides an integrated platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable automation, procurement, travel booking, reimbursements, treasury services, and accountingautomation. Its software is designed to help organizations manage business spending, streamline financial workflows, and centralize finance operations within a single system. The platform enables businesses to issue and manage corporate cards, process vendor payments, track expenses, handle employee reimbursements, and automate accounting processes. It also incorporates artificial intelligence capabilities that assist with receipt matching, transaction categorization, policy enforcement, approval workflows, and financial reporting. These features are intended to reduce manual administrative work and improve visibility into organizational spending. | $750M | Series F | Jun 04, 2026 |  |
| Ramp | Ramp is a financial technology company that develops software for corporate spend management, finance operations, and business payments. The company provides an integrated platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable automation, procurement, travel booking, reimbursements, treasury services, and accountingautomation. Its software is designed to help organizations manage business spending, streamline financial workflows, and centralize finance operations within a single system. The platform enables businesses to issue and manage corporate cards, process vendor payments, track expenses, handle employee reimbursements, and automate accounting processes. It also incorporates artificial intelligence capabilities that assist with receipt matching, transaction categorization, policy enforcement, approval workflows, and financial reporting. These features are intended to reduce manual administrative work and improve visibility into organizational spending. | $300M |  | Nov 17, 2025 |  |
| Eve | Eve is the industry's first customizable AI assistant for the legal profession. | $103M | Series B | Sep 30, 2025 |  |
| Cato Networks | Cato Networks provides organizations with a cloud-based and secure global SD-WAN. Cato delivers an integrated networking and security platform that securely connects all enterprise locations, people, and data. Cato Cloud cuts MPLS costs, improves performance between global locations and to cloud applications, eliminates branch appliances, providessecure Internet access everywhere, and seamlessly integrates mobile users, and cloud datacenters into the WAN. Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Cato Networks was founded in 2015 by cybersecurity luminary Shlomo Kramer, co-founder of Check Point Software Technologies and Imperva, and Gur Shatz, co-founder of Incapsula. | $409M | Series G | Jun 30, 2025 |  |
| Glean | Glean develops an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data and generates answers through a tool in any company. It provides an AI assistant and enterprise search platform called Workplace Search that connects to internal data sources to help employees find information and answer questions. The platform uses advanced search,retrieval, augmented generation, and large language models to generate personalized answers grounded in. | $150M | Series F | Jun 10, 2025 |  |
| Eve | Eve is the industry's first customizable AI assistant for the legal profession. | $47M | Series A | Jan 16, 2025 |  |
| Databricks | Databricks is a software platform that helps its customers unify their analytics across the business, data science, and data engineering. It also provides a Unified Analytics Platform for data science teams to collaborate with data engineering and lines of business to build data products. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered inSan Francisco, California. | $10B | Series J | Dec 17, 2024 |  |
| Glean | Glean develops an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data and generates answers through a tool in any company. It provides an AI assistant and enterprise search platform called Workplace Search that connects to internal data sources to help employees find information and answer questions. The platform uses advanced search,retrieval, augmented generation, and large language models to generate personalized answers grounded in. | $260M | Series E | Sep 10, 2024 |  |
| Grafana Labs | Grafana Labs supports organizations’ monitoring, visualization and observability goals through an open and composable platform built around Grafana, the open source software for beautiful monitoring and metric analytics and visualization. Grafana Labs’ commercial products include Grafana Enterprise, with key features and support for largeorganizations, and Grafana Cloud, a hosted Grafana-based stack that includes Prometheus and Graphite (for metrics) and Loki (for logs). | $270M | Series D | Aug 21, 2024 |  |
| Wiz | Wiz is a cloud security platform that enables organizations to enhance collaboration among security, development, and DevOps teams while facilitating a self-service model for managing cloud infrastructure and identifying potential risks. The platform provides comprehensive visibility across cloud environments, allowing users to detectvulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and compliance issues in real-time. By integrating seamlessly with existing workflows and tools, Wiz supports automated security assessments and prioritizes remediation efforts based on risk levels, helping teams to maintain security without hindering development speed. Additionally, Wiz offers insights into cloud usage patterns and security posture, empowering organizations to make informed decisions regarding their cloud strategy. | $1B | Series E | May 07, 2024 |  |

10 of 38 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 18 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 18 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Coatue](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coatue) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together

## About Lightspeed Venture Partners

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

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 invarious 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.

5 contacts available at Lightspeed Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Arsham Memarzadeh | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arsham-memarzadeh |
| Galym Imanbayev | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/galym-imanbayev-3ecc |
| James Ephrati | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-ephrati |
| Justin Overdorff | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/justin-overdorff |
| Michael Mignano | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-mignano |

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## FAQ

### What does James Ephrati invest in?

James Ephrati invests primarily in Information Technology, Analytics and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series F and Series B stage. Most of the 38 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did James Ephrati last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for James Ephrati closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 38 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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