Light Street Capital
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
Light Street Capital is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and SaaS. Light Street Capital Management is an investment management firm located in Menlo Park, California. The firm invests globally in public and private equity markets with a focus on technology and media sectors. Core areas of investment focus are social media, cloud computing, e-commerce, and sharing economy companies.
- Total investments:
- 30
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 27%
- Fund size:
- $158M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Light Street Capital invests in
Stages Light Street Capital invests in
Countries Light Street Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series C
- $98M–$879M
- Series D
- $150M–$1.7B
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (20%)
- SaaS 5 (17%)
- E-Commerce 5 (17%)
- Transportation 5 (17%)
- Health Care 4 (13%)
Stage
- Series D 6 (20%)
- Secondary Market 4 (13%)
- Series C 3 (10%)
- Series E 3 (10%)
- Series F 3 (10%)
Country
- United States 19 (63%)
- Japan 2 (7%)
- India 1 (3%)
- Spain 1 (3%)
- Brazil 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Kevin Sullivan
Analyst
|
Analyst | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Bryan Hsu
Analyst
|
Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Glen Kacher
Founder and CIO
|
Founder and CIO | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
|
Kan Yuan
Analyst
|
Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Shef Osborn
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| iPronics develops the innovative concepts of general-purpose integrated programmable photonic systems. | $125M / Series B / Sep 02, 2026 | ||
| Lumin Digital provides cloud-based digital banking services to financial institutions. | $115M / Private Equity / Jul 15, 2026 | ||
| Ayar Labs develops a monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO) solution for applications that require high bandwidth, low latency, and power-efficient short-reach interconnects.The company disrupts the traditional performance, cost, and efficiency curves of the semiconductor and computing industries by driving improvement in interconnectbandwidth density at lower power. Its patented approach uses industry-standard cost-effective silicon processing techniques to develop high speed, high density, low power optical-based interconnect “chiplets” and lasers to replace traditional electrical-based I/O. Ayar’s flagship product is a chip called TeraPhy that implements its optical technology on compact silicon die. The chip can be integrated directly into a central processing unit, graphics card, or another processor to give it optical data transmission capabilities.The Emeryville, California-headquartered company was established in 2015 by Alex Wright-Gladstein, Vladimir Stojanovic, Chen Sun, and Mark Wade. | $155M / Series D / Dec 11, 2024 | ||
| Lumin Digital provides cloud-based digital banking services to financial institutions. | $160M / Private Equity / Dec 02, 2024 | ||
| Jetsweat is a well-being platform that helps organizations engage populations to live healthier lives. We partner with forward-thinking employers, health plans and health systems to set a new standard for holistic and preventative care, driving better outcomes through engaging journeys, personalized programming from exclusive provider ecosystem,and dedicated white-label software. | Pre-Seed / Jun 01, 2023 | ||
| Clari is a connected revenue operations platform that uses automation and AI to unlock all the activity data captured in key business systems such as marketing automation, CRM, email, calendar, phone, content management, conversations, and more.Clari automatically aligns that data to accounts and opportunities, to deliver visibility, forecasting,and apply predictive insights, which results in more insight, less guesswork, and more predictable revenue. Clari helps companies by changing their revenue operations to be more connected, efficient, and predictable. Clari's platform is used by hundreds of sales, marketing, and customer success teams at B2B companies such as Qualtrics, Lenovo, Adobe, Dropbox, and Okta to control pipelines, audit deals and accounts, forecast the business, and reduce churn. | $225M / Series F / Jan 19, 2022 | ||
| Ambulnz is an ambulance service provider that utilizes disruptive technology in delivering medical transportation services. It exists to improve the lives of EMTs, make it easier for caregivers to schedule ambulances and provide the best medical transportation service for patients. | $125M / Post-IPO Equity / Nov 08, 2021 | ||
| DocGo is a telehealth company offering mobile medical services, on-site event medical services, and transportation services. | $125M / Post-IPO Equity / Nov 08, 2021 | ||
| Cellebrite is a global company known for its technological breakthroughs in the cellular industry.Cellebrite develops advanced mobile data solutions, enabling the extensive use and management of mobile phone data to provide value for two distinct business divisions: mobile lifecycle and mobile forensics. In the mobile lifecycle division,retailers and operators can offer customers unique in-store phone-to-phone content transfer, backup and restore; in-store and remote diagnostics and repair avoidance; application and content delivery; automated BuyBack and secure device Wipe. In the mobile forensics division, our data extraction, decoding, analysis and reporting solutions support law enforcement, military, intelligence, corporate security, and eDiscovery agencies in the successful performance of their duties. | $300M / Post-IPO Equity / Aug 31, 2021 | ||
| Orosy, a Tokyo-based company offering a wholesale marketplace for small retailers to discover and purchase makers, craft brands, smaller manufacturers. Orosy raised $3.4 million in Seed funding. | $1.8M / Series A / Jul 20, 2021 | ||
| See all 30 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Light Street Capital invest in?
Light Street Capital invests primarily in Software, SaaS and E-Commerce startups, most often at Series D and Secondary Market stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Light Street Capital's check size?
Light Street Capital typically joins rounds of $98M–$879M at Series C and $150M–$1.7B at Series D. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Light Street Capital participates in.
How do I contact Light Street Capital?
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Who are the partners at Light Street Capital?
The team at Light Street Capital includes Kevin Sullivan (Analyst), Bryan Hsu (Analyst) and Glen Kacher (Founder and CIO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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