# John W. Thompson

> John W. Thompson is a Series A investor at Lightspeed Venture Partners backing Software. See 45 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 45
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-w-thompson

John W. Thompson is a Series A investor at Lightspeed Venture Partners in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. John Thompson currently works as the Venture Partner for Lightspeed Venture Partners. He previously worked at Riverwood Capital Management as the Executive Advisor.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 29% |
| Information Technology | 10 | 22% |
| Enterprise Software | 7 | 16% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 16% |
| Security | 6 | 13% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 14 | 31% |
| Series B | 11 | 24% |
| Seed | 7 | 16% |
| Series C | 5 | 11% |
| Series D | 1 | 2% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 24 | 53% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 4% |
| India | 1 | 2% |
| Israel | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Omnifold | 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 | https://omnifold.ai/ |
| Avarra | 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. | $8M | Seed | Oct 03, 2024 | https://www.avarra.ai |
| Gardens | Founded by designers of such award-winning indie titles as Journey, What Remains of Edith Finch, Dustforce, Blaseball, and more, Gardens Interactive is a game studio focused on the future of online play, growing lush, living spaces that need to be cared for by their communities, and fostering meaningful, memorable stories between players around theworld. | $31.3M | Series A | May 31, 2023 | https://www.chrisbelldesign.com/gardens |
| Descope | Descope enables any developer to create secure, frictionless authentication and user journeys for any application. It intends to make customer identity a business enabler. | $53M | Seed | Feb 15, 2023 | https://www.descope.com |
| CyCognito | CyCognito is a revolutionary new approach to external cyber risk management driven to create positive business impact. Far deeper than external attack surface management, our platform helps organizations identify, understand and master their risk in profound new ways. Fully-automated, highly scalable, and designed to function as promised, ourplatform uses advanced machine learning and natural language processing to allow for unprecedented reach, speed and accuracy. We can step into the shoes of potential attackers—which in turn helps us identify and secure gaps better than anyone. We help teams secure their attack surface by helping them determine true risks, where they need to focus and how they should invest. And then we use what we learn to help bridge cyber risk remediation across departments unlike ever before. | $100M | Series C | Dec 01, 2021 | https://www.cycognito.com |
| Scribe | Scribe instantly captures how your business actually works, giving your teams & AI agents the context they need to do their best work.As people do their jobs, Scribe automatically captures every workflow and builds a living record of how your organization actually works.Scribe Optimize analyzes these workflows and helps leaders identifyinefficiencies, the right AI investments, and a faster path to transformation.Scribe Capture instantly documents any workflow as a step-by-step guide, so your teams and AI agents always do work right.Loved by 90,000 enterprise customers, including Okta, Datadog, and New York Life, Scribe is trusted by 94% of the Fortune 500: - 35 hours saved per person per month - 98% of customers report fewer errors - 71% better agent performance | $22M | Series A | Oct 18, 2021 | https://scribehow.com |
| LeapYear Technologies | LeapYear develops technology for enterprises to securely unlock value from their most sensitive data assets. LeapYear’s platform implements differential privacy, a mathematically proven standard that enables data to be leveraged for machine learning, while ensuring that no data can be exposed or exploited.LeapYear has partnered with the largestcompanies across financial services, healthcare, technology, and insurance to combine, analyze, and monetize previously restricted and siloed sources of information. | $15M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 30, 2021 | https://leapyear.io/ |
| Seismic | Seismic’s leading sales enableSeismic is the leading global sales and marketing enablement solution, improving close rates, and delivering larger deals for sales while increasing marketing’s impact on the bottom line. Large enterprises use Seismic to increase sales productivity through the automatic distribution of relevant information andpersonalized content to reps for any buyer interaction. Powerful content controls and visibility into usage ensures brand integrity and reduces risk. Seismic’s machine learning and analytics capabilities continuously improve the entire enablement process for large enterprises, increasing the ROI of sales content and tying it directly to revenue. Headquartered in San Diego and with more than 300 employees across the globe, Seismic is privately held by its executive team and investment firms General Atlantic, JMI Equity, and Jackson Square Ventures. | $170M | Series G | Aug 16, 2021 | http://seismic.com |
| Inxeption | Inxeption is a feature-rich eCommerce platform, providing the best tools and innovative blockchain technology to insure trusted, secure and reliable transactions. Inxeption is a sophisticated platform that rapidly increases sales, streamlines your business, and extends products to new online channels.Bring potential new customers to your websiteusing the most up-to-date and advanced PPC methodologies. Maintain a completely transparent window into your campaigns, who is visiting your website, and what is working! Watch your orders in real-time and manage them with Inxeption. | $61.5M | Series D | May 27, 2021 | https://www.inxeption.com |
| Armorblox | Armorblox is a venture-backed stealth cybersecurity startup that secures the human layer by using the latest techniques in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to protect organizations against identity-based attacks and data loss. | $30M | Series B | Feb 25, 2021 | https://www.armorblox.com |

10 of 45 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 32 deals together
- [UpWest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/upwest-labs) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Sorenson Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sorenson-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Harpoon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harpoon-2271) — VC Fund, 4 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 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.

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 John W. Thompson invest in?

John W. Thompson invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 45 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact John W. Thompson?

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### When did John W. Thompson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for John W. Thompson closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 45 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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