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.
- Total investments:
- 2428
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
- Fund size:
- $600M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Lightspeed Venture Partners invests in
Stages Lightspeed Venture Partners invests in
Countries Lightspeed Venture Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 64 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$26M
- Series A
- $7M–$85M
- Series B
- $15M–$125M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 268 (11%)
- Artificial Intelligence 183 (8%)
- Information Technology 150 (6%)
- FinTech 92 (4%)
- Financial Services 83 (3%)
Stage
- Series A 384 (16%)
- Seed 334 (14%)
- Series B 291 (12%)
- Series C 197 (8%)
- Series D 122 (5%)
Country
- United States 666 (27%)
- India 51 (2%)
- Israel 28 (1%)
- China 26 (1%)
- United Kingdom 25 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Arsham Memarzadeh
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 20 | Find email | |
Galym Imanbayev
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 17 | Find email | |
James Ephrati
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 47 | Find email | |
Justin Overdorff
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 40 | Find email | |
Michael Mignano
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 45 | Find email | |
| See all 64 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | $35M / Series B / Oct 07, 2026 | ||
| Research Lab. Exploring new frontiers of voice generation. We are researching and deploying novel methods in voice AI to make content enjoyable in any language and voice to benefit new audiences and viewers. Our mission is to make content universally accessible in any language & voice. | $300M / Secondary Market / Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| Enveda Biosciences is a biotechnology company building new medicines from plants. It harnesses the complexity of the natural world to tackle today’s biggest healthcare challenges. With the help of the advancements in knowledge graphs, machine learning, and metabolomics, they discover the next generation of small molecules. Its technologiessystematize the discovery of small molecules and novel targets for complex diseases. By probing novel chemical space and mechanisms of action, they are breaking the status quo for challenging diseases with a need for effective treatments, such as fibrosis or neurodegeneration.Enveda, launched in 2019, is based in San Francisco, California. | $311M / Series E / Sep 23, 2026 | ||
| Snorkel AI is a technology startup that empowers data scientists and developers to turn data into accurate and adaptable AI applications fast with Snorkel Flow, a first-of-its-kind data-centric development platform, powered by programmatic labeling. Snorkel Flow reduces the time, cost, and friction of labeling training data so data science anddevelopment teams can more easily build and scale AI models to deploy more meaningful applications. Incorporating human judgment into the AI process through subject-matter experts is made more efficient and scalable leading to more ethical, responsible outcomes.Two out of the top three US banks, several government agencies and Fortune 500 companies use Snorkel Flow. Snorkel’s core research was developed at Stanford AI lab and is deployed at Google, Intel, Apple, IBM, DARPA, and other trailblazing organizations. | $350M / Series E / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Ande develops an AI-enabled B2B platform and mobile app for managing corporate hospitality events, bookings, policy controls, and expense流程. | $52M / Series A / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Raindrop is a provider of a monitoring platform for AI agents. | Series A / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
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| Buildots specializes in transforming construction sites into a data-driven digital environment. Its platform enables maximum control of construction processes at minimal effort. The solution turns every site walk into valuable process data that can immediately be used for gaining full control of a certain project. | $130M / Series E / Sep 14, 2026 | ||
| Temporal Technologies is a computer software company that enables its users to build and operate resilient applications using developer-friendly primitives. It specializes in the fields of information technology, software development, and computer software. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. | $550M / Series E / Sep 14, 2026 | ||
| Harvey is an artificial intelligence technology service provider. | $550M / Series H / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
| See all 2428 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Lightspeed Venture Partners invest in?
Lightspeed Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 2,428 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 Venture Partners's check size?
Lightspeed Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $2M–$26M at Seed, $7M–$85M at Series A and $15M–$125M 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 Venture Partners participates in.
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Who are the partners at Lightspeed Venture Partners?
The team at Lightspeed Venture Partners includes Arsham Memarzadeh (Partner), Galym Imanbayev (Partner) and James Ephrati (Partner), among 64 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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