# Lightspeed Venture Partners

> Lightspeed Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Software. See 2,066 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 2,066
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 40%
- Fund size: $2.4B
- Last fund: Jul 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/lightspeed-venture-partners
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/lightspeedvp
- Website: http://lsvp.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Lightspeed

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 invarious 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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$30M |
| Series A | $7.5M–$90M |
| Series B | $15M–$125M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 207 | 10% |
| Information Technology | 108 | 5% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 101 | 5% |
| FinTech | 66 | 3% |
| Financial Services | 64 | 3% |

387 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 298 | 14% |
| Series B | 229 | 11% |
| Seed | 227 | 11% |
| Series C | 155 | 8% |
| Series D | 97 | 5% |

20 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 530 | 26% |
| India | 39 | 2% |
| Israel | 27 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 24 | 1% |
| Singapore | 15 | 1% |

32 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Arsham Memarzadeh | Partner | 20 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arsham-memarzadeh |
| Galym Imanbayev | Partner | 17 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/galym-imanbayev-3ecc |
| James Ephrati | Partner | 38 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-ephrati |
| Justin Overdorff | Partner | 40 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/justin-overdorff |
| Michael Mignano | Partner | 44 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-mignano |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Whatnot | Whatnot is a Los Angeles-based startup that creates a place where avid collectors could come together over shared interests. Whatnot is a marketplace to buy and sell authentic collectible items. Whatnot was founded in 2019, in California. | $545M | Series G | Aug 06, 2026 |  |
| Whatnot | Whatnot is a Los Angeles-based startup that creates a place where avid collectors could come together over shared interests. Whatnot is a marketplace to buy and sell authentic collectible items. Whatnot was founded in 2019, in California. | $545M | Series G | Aug 06, 2026 |  |
| Whatnot | Whatnot is a Los Angeles-based startup that creates a place where avid collectors could come together over shared interests. Whatnot is a marketplace to buy and sell authentic collectible items. Whatnot was founded in 2019, in California. | $545M | Series G | Aug 06, 2026 |  |
| Gravity | Gravity is an AI ad platform enabling AI apps to monetize conversations with contextual ads, targeting users through conversational intent. | $30.5M | Series A | Aug 06, 2026 |  |
| Oligo Security | Oligo is the industry's leading runtime security platform that solves today's toughest challenge: stopping attacks in real time in the AI era. Oligo transforms security from passive visibility to active protection across applications, cloud services, workloads, AI applications, and AI agents. By uncovering the deepest layers of whatactually runs in production, Oligo empowers customers to prioritize exploitable vulnerabilities, detect malicious behavior as it happens, and stop modern attacks in their tracks. | $60M | Series C | Aug 04, 2026 |  |
| Multiplier | Multiplier Holdings leverages artificial intelligence to scale high-impact professional services firms. Multiplier's innovative business model comprises acquiring professional services firms, such as specialist tax and accounting practices, and transforming them into more scalable, successful enterprises through the systematic integration ofspecific AI solutions. | $35M | Series B | Aug 04, 2026 |  |
| Multiplier | Multiplier Holdings leverages artificial intelligence to scale high-impact professional services firms. Multiplier's innovative business model comprises acquiring professional services firms, such as specialist tax and accounting practices, and transforming them into more scalable, successful enterprises through the systematic integration ofspecific AI solutions. | $35M | Series B | Aug 04, 2026 |  |
| Multiplier | Multiplier Holdings leverages artificial intelligence to scale high-impact professional services firms. Multiplier's innovative business model comprises acquiring professional services firms, such as specialist tax and accounting practices, and transforming them into more scalable, successful enterprises through the systematic integration ofspecific AI solutions. | $35M | Series B | Aug 04, 2026 |  |
| Multiplier | Multiplier Holdings leverages artificial intelligence to scale high-impact professional services firms. Multiplier's innovative business model comprises acquiring professional services firms, such as specialist tax and accounting practices, and transforming them into more scalable, successful enterprises through the systematic integration ofspecific AI solutions. | $35M | Series B | Aug 04, 2026 |  |
| Base Power | Base Power provides home battery systems, retail electricity services, and energy management solutions for residential customers. The company installs battery storage systems that provide backup power during outages and help manage electricity usage. Its platform combines distributed battery storage with electricity services to support home energymanagement and grid operations. | $1B | Series D | Aug 03, 2026 |  |

10 of 2,066 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Lightspeed Venture Partners invest in?

Lightspeed Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 2,066 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 $2.5M–$30M at Seed, $7.5M–$90M 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.

### How do I contact Lightspeed Venture Partners?

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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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