# Lightspeed

> Lightspeed is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 28 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 28
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/lightspeed-financial
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/LSFinancial
- Website: http://www.lightspeed.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lightspeedtrading

Lightspeed is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and Information Technology. Lightspeed offers clients access to our proprietary order execution system, Lightspeed Trader, real time risk and margin management

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Lightspeed. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Lightspeed. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/lightspeed-financial?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $650k–$20M |
| Series A | $1.4M–$100M |
| Series B | $25M–$120M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 32% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 18% |
| Internet | 4 | 14% |
| FinTech | 3 | 11% |
| Medical | 3 | 11% |

64 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 25% |
| Series A | 5 | 18% |
| Series B | 4 | 14% |
| Series C | 3 | 11% |
| Series D | 2 | 7% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 50% |
| India | 3 | 11% |
| Canada | 2 | 7% |
| China | 1 | 4% |
| Gibraltar | 1 | 4% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kevin Ott | Co-President and Chief Strategy Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-ott-2 |
| Amy Kulinski | EVP | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amy-kulinski |
| Antonio Abad | CTO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antonio-abad |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pheon Therapeutics | Pheon Therapeutics is an Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC) specialist that creates ADCs for a variety of difficult-to-treat cancers. Its lead program is a first-in-class ADC against a novel target that is highly expressed in solid tumors across a broad range of hard-to-treat cancer types.The company was founded in 2022 and is based in London,England. | $120M | Series B | May 21, 2024 |  |
| Zetwerk | Zetwerk is an end-to-end manufacturing supply chain solutions provider.The online marketplace connects large manufacturing companies with vendors and suppliers for customized products that are used as components of industrial machines and equipment. The company sells items like crane parts, doors, machine chassis, and ladders, as well as servicesbusinesses in fabrication, machining, casting, and forging.Zetwerk provides both buyers and suppliers collaboration tools to streamline their interactions, and execution tools to fulfill the orders effortlessly as well as plans to host a 3rd party apps and services marketplace to fulfill other customer needs. The company's marketplace offers access to the capacity of a nationwide network of manufacturing facilities to get products manufactured for any budget or timelines, enabling businesses to procure custom products and machine parts and suppliers to obtain more orders and grow their revenues.Zetwerk was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. | $116.1M | Series F | Oct 18, 2023 |  |
| ProjectDiscovery | ProjectDiscovery is an open-source software company that simplifies security operations for engineers and developers. Its user base is among the largest in the InfoSec community, and they are used by security and developer teams at top internet companies such as Fastly, Microsoft, CloudFlare, Gitlab, Facebook, IBM, and many others. | $25M | Series A | Aug 17, 2023 |  |
| Contextual AI | Contextual AI offers a pioneering approach to generative AI for the workplace. | $20M | Seed | Jun 07, 2023 |  |
| CtrlStack | CtrlStack is a software development company that solves a problem that every DevOps engineer faces. The company unifies DevOps from the other side – starting from the actual workflows and then solving backward to the enabling data and technologies to make DevOps faster, easier, and safer. It was founded in 2020 and is located in San Francisco,California. | $5.2M | Seed | Dec 15, 2022 |  |
| QueryPal | QueryPal is revolutionizing enterprise customer support by leveraging past support tickets to create an intelligent deflection system that can handle most incoming chat+email queries without human intervention. Unlike conventional AI chatbots that merely search documentation, QueryPal's Agentic Support AI builds a comprehensive knowledge graphfrom historical support data, enabling tier 1-3 support capabilities including complex API interactions with systems of record. Its visual analytics dashboard gives CS leaders unprecedented visibility into support operations, while demonstrating dramatic ROI within weeks of install. Already trusted by companies like JetBrains and Simply Benefits, QueryPal is positioned to disrupt the $300B global customer support market by transforming cost centers into strategic assets without adding headcount. As seen in Financial Times, CIO Magazine, Newsweek, Yahoo!, US News and World Report, Fox News, InfoWorld, Information Week, and more. | $5.2M | Seed | Dec 15, 2022 |  |
| Arrivant | Our first title "Project Eluüne: StarGarden" is a Tribe V Environment (TvE) cross-platform auto chess game with unique base building features that is built for long-term cooperative gameplay. As a team of players you will recruit, craft and battle alongside your creature allies as you repair a shattered world and uncover the secrets itholds. | $5M | Seed | Aug 05, 2022 |  |
| Gnosis | In late 2020, Gnosis announced plans to fully decentralize into a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization). Today, the GnosisDAO treasury has effective control of over 150K ETH and 8 Million GNO tokens, with the GNO tokens vested over 8 years. A year later, in 2021, the xDAI and GnosisDAO communities voted to combine their vibrant ecosystemsto create the Gnosis Chain: An Ethereum forerunner companion that addresses scaling issues through solid engineering. Gnosis Chain is the associated execution-layer EVM chain for stable transactions. It uses the xDai token and includes a wide-ranging group of projects and users.The Gnosis mission has always been centered on experimentation and building decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem. When Gnosis was founded in 2015, it focused on building prediction markets to enable worldwide access to accurate information. While creating the prediction market platform, it became clear that Gnosis needed to build the infrastructure required to support it. As a DAO, Gnosis uses the products that it creates to transparently guide decisions on the development, support, and governance of its ecosystem.Gnosis Safe (multisig and programmable account), Cow Protocol (formerly CowSwap and Gnosis Protocol), Conditional Tokens (prediction markets), Gnosis Auction, and Zodiac (standard and tooling for composable DAOs) are all products incubated by Gnosis. Their success is demonstrated by the recent spin-out of Cow Protocol and the formation of SafeDAO. By combining needs-driven development with deep technical expertise, Gnosis has built the decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem. | $100M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 12, 2022 |  |
| Safe | Safe is the account abstraction leader on Ethereum and the EVM with the most secure smart wallet infrastructure and platform. | $100M | Series A | Jul 12, 2022 |  |
| Ultima Genomics | Ultima Genomics is unleashing the power of genomics at scale. Ultima Genomics drives the scale of genomic information to enable unprecedented advances in biology and improvements in human health. | $600M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 31, 2022 |  |

10 of 28 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 16 deals together
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Addition](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/addition-7af4) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Dynamic Loop Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dynamic-loop-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Lightspeed invest in?

Lightspeed invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 28 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 Lightspeed's check size?

Lightspeed typically joins rounds of $650k–$20M at Seed, $1.4M–$100M at Series A and $25M–$120M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lightspeed participates in.

### How do I contact Lightspeed?

Public channels for Lightspeed include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. 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 Lightspeed?

The team at Lightspeed includes Kevin Ott (Co-President and Chief Strategy Officer), Amy Kulinski (EVP) and Antonio Abad (CTO). 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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