LightShed Ventures
VC Fund
New York, United States
LightShed Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the technology, media, telecom, and consumer sectors. The firm specializes in the fields of financial services, venture capital, and early-stage investment.
- Total investments:
- 45
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
- Fund size:
- $75M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries LightShed Ventures invests in
Stages LightShed Ventures invests in
Countries LightShed Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$8M
- Pre-Seed
- $2M–$3M
- Series A
- $4M–$41M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (20%)
- Gaming 7 (16%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (16%)
- Internet 4 (9%)
- Social Media 4 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 16 (36%)
- Series A 12 (27%)
- Pre-Seed 5 (11%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (7%)
- Series C 2 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jamie Seltzer
Co-Founder, General Partner
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Co-Founder, General Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Richard Greenfield
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 26 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Eventual
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Eventual is a media and intelligence platform focused on prediction markets (such as politics, macro events, and culture), using the tagline "Prediction Markets. Decoded." | Seed / Jul 28, 2026 | |
Status
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Status AI is an AI-driven social simulation platform that combines elements of social media, roleplaying, fanfiction, and interactive storytelling. The platform allows users to create digital personas, interact with AI-generated characters, and participate in fictional or user-created worlds through posts, replies, events, and direct interactions.Its system uses AI models that adapt to user choices and maintain ongoing character relationships and story progression over time. The company also incorporates multiplayer and community-based features, enabling users to build collaborative narratives and participate in shared timelines with other players. According to information published on its website and related company profiles, the platform primarily focuses on immersive social entertainment experiences for users interested in fandom communities, character-driven interactions, and AI-assisted storytelling. | $17M / Series A / May 19, 2026 | |
Status
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Status AI is an AI-driven social simulation platform that combines elements of social media, roleplaying, fanfiction, and interactive storytelling. The platform allows users to create digital personas, interact with AI-generated characters, and participate in fictional or user-created worlds through posts, replies, events, and direct interactions.Its system uses AI models that adapt to user choices and maintain ongoing character relationships and story progression over time. The company also incorporates multiplayer and community-based features, enabling users to build collaborative narratives and participate in shared timelines with other players. According to information published on its website and related company profiles, the platform primarily focuses on immersive social entertainment experiences for users interested in fandom communities, character-driven interactions, and AI-assisted storytelling. | Seed / May 19, 2026 | |
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Status
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Status AI is an AI-driven social simulation platform that combines elements of social media, roleplaying, fanfiction, and interactive storytelling. The platform allows users to create digital personas, interact with AI-generated characters, and participate in fictional or user-created worlds through posts, replies, events, and direct interactions.Its system uses AI models that adapt to user choices and maintain ongoing character relationships and story progression over time. The company also incorporates multiplayer and community-based features, enabling users to build collaborative narratives and participate in shared timelines with other players. According to information published on its website and related company profiles, the platform primarily focuses on immersive social entertainment experiences for users interested in fandom communities, character-driven interactions, and AI-assisted storytelling. | $17M / Series A / May 19, 2026 | |
Giant
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Giant is an AI-powered digital studio delivering personalized storytelling experiences fostering children's creativity, curiosity, learning. | $8M / Seed / Feb 23, 2026 | |
Cashmere
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Cashmere enables publishers to liberate their premium content for usage in AI platforms by providing tools for monitoring and monetizing data in the agentic AI era. | $5M / Seed / Jan 22, 2026 | |
Vurvey Labs
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Vurvey is a video-powered creator network for brands | $8.5M / Series A / Nov 19, 2025 | |
Affiniti
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Fueling Small Businesses Across America With Industry-Tailored Credit Cards. | $17M / Series A / May 20, 2025 | |
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Affiniti
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Fueling Small Businesses Across America With Industry-Tailored Credit Cards. | $11M / Seed / Nov 13, 2024 | |
Boomerang
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Boomerang is a technology-powered service that collects, stores, and returns lost valuables back to their owners. | $4.9M / Seed / Jan 25, 2024 | |
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FAQ
What does LightShed Ventures invest in?
LightShed Ventures invests primarily in Software, Gaming and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.
What is LightShed Ventures's check size?
LightShed Ventures typically joins rounds of $2M–$8M at Seed, $2M–$3M at Pre-Seed and $4M–$41M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds LightShed Ventures participates in.
How do I contact LightShed Ventures?
Public channels for LightShed Ventures include LinkedIn. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
Who are the partners at LightShed Ventures?
The team at LightShed Ventures includes Jamie Seltzer (Co-Founder, General Partner) and Richard Greenfield (Partner). 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 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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