Lightspeed Ventures, LLC

Lightspeed Ventures, LLC is a global venture capital firm founded in 2000, headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Herzliya Pituach. The firm specializes in early-stage and expansion-stage investments, focusing on a diverse range of sectors including consumer, enterprise technology, cleantech, financial technology, mobile, e-commerce, and biotechnology. Lightspeed engages in both equity and debt financing for startups and growth companies, as well as providing incubation services. It primarily invests in the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India, with specific investment strategies tailored to different regions. In India, for instance, it focuses on advertising, healthcare, education, and retail, while in China, it targets both early and late-stage businesses across various technology sectors. The firm manages significant capital through its funds, actively participating in the growth of innovative companies across multiple industries.

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner

Luke Beseda

Partner

Ashley Brasier

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

Janou Gordon

Director of Special Projects

David Gussarsky

Partner

Harry Han

Partner

Lisa Han

Partner

Kshitij Jain

Associate

Ansaf Kareem

Partner

Alex Kayyal

Partner

Meredith Kendall

Marketing Partner

Jonathan MacQuitty

Partner

Andrew John Moley

Operating Partner and Chief Financial Officer

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Peter Moulds

Venture Partner

Antoine Moyroud

Partner

Brett Nissenberg

Partner and General Counsel

Michael Romano

Partner of Investor Relations

Adam Rothstein

Partner

Chris Schaepe

Co-Founder and Partner

Alexander Schmitt

Partner

Bipul Sinha

Venture Partner

John Wendell Thompson

Venture Partner

Rytis Vitkauskas

Partner

Scott Young

VP of Technology

Past deals in Visual Search

Select Star

Series A in 2023
Select Star is an intelligent data discovery platform that automatically analyzes & documents your data. Many data scientists and business analysts spend too much time looking for the right data, often having to ask other people to find it. Beyond a data catalog, Select Star provides an easy to use data portal that everyone can use to find and understand data.

Glean

Series C in 2022
Scio is a search engine that aims to help in the finding of any piece of data via any tool in any company. The company's software integrates with multiple platforms to find precise data points and provide relevant search results, allowing employees to find required data points based on keywords.

ThoughtSpot

Series F in 2021
ThoughtSpot, Inc. specializes in search-driven analytics for enterprises, enabling users to easily search, analyze, and share real-time business data. The platform is designed to empower individuals across various sectors, including retail, healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing, to derive insights and create reports through an intuitive search interface. ThoughtSpot connects with a wide range of data sources, whether on-premise or cloud-based, and is noted for its rapid deployment compared to traditional technologies. The company has established partnerships to enhance its capabilities and has served a diverse customer base, including notable organizations such as Amway and Chevron Federal Credit Union. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, ThoughtSpot has expanded its presence globally with additional offices in locations such as Bellevue, London, Duisburg, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Bengaluru, and Tokyo. Its mission focuses on making analytics accessible to a broad audience, aiming to democratize data-driven decision-making across organizations.

Scopio

Venture Round in 2021
Scopio, LLC operates an image search engine and licensing platform for trending images and videos on social media. Its platform enables users to license photos with customizable messages and build libraries of visual user-generated content. It serves companies, brands, non-governmental organizations, and live events. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Glean

Series B in 2021
Scio is a search engine that aims to help in the finding of any piece of data via any tool in any company. The company's software integrates with multiple platforms to find precise data points and provide relevant search results, allowing employees to find required data points based on keywords.

Viralspace.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Viralspace, Inc. is a technology company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Stanford, California. It specializes in developing a content performance prediction platform that assists brands in forecasting the effectiveness of their visual marketing content. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Viralspace provides valuable insights that enable enterprises to make informed, data-driven decisions about their visual assets, ultimately enhancing engagement and return on investment. The platform focuses on identifying key features of images that contribute to successful marketing outcomes.

ThoughtSpot

Series E in 2019
ThoughtSpot, Inc. specializes in search-driven analytics for enterprises, enabling users to easily search, analyze, and share real-time business data. The platform is designed to empower individuals across various sectors, including retail, healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing, to derive insights and create reports through an intuitive search interface. ThoughtSpot connects with a wide range of data sources, whether on-premise or cloud-based, and is noted for its rapid deployment compared to traditional technologies. The company has established partnerships to enhance its capabilities and has served a diverse customer base, including notable organizations such as Amway and Chevron Federal Credit Union. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, ThoughtSpot has expanded its presence globally with additional offices in locations such as Bellevue, London, Duisburg, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Bengaluru, and Tokyo. Its mission focuses on making analytics accessible to a broad audience, aiming to democratize data-driven decision-making across organizations.

Glean

Series A in 2019
Scio is a search engine that aims to help in the finding of any piece of data via any tool in any company. The company's software integrates with multiple platforms to find precise data points and provide relevant search results, allowing employees to find required data points based on keywords.

ThoughtSpot

Series D in 2018
ThoughtSpot, Inc. specializes in search-driven analytics for enterprises, enabling users to easily search, analyze, and share real-time business data. The platform is designed to empower individuals across various sectors, including retail, healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing, to derive insights and create reports through an intuitive search interface. ThoughtSpot connects with a wide range of data sources, whether on-premise or cloud-based, and is noted for its rapid deployment compared to traditional technologies. The company has established partnerships to enhance its capabilities and has served a diverse customer base, including notable organizations such as Amway and Chevron Federal Credit Union. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, ThoughtSpot has expanded its presence globally with additional offices in locations such as Bellevue, London, Duisburg, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Bengaluru, and Tokyo. Its mission focuses on making analytics accessible to a broad audience, aiming to democratize data-driven decision-making across organizations.

ThoughtSpot

Series C in 2017
ThoughtSpot, Inc. specializes in search-driven analytics for enterprises, enabling users to easily search, analyze, and share real-time business data. The platform is designed to empower individuals across various sectors, including retail, healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing, to derive insights and create reports through an intuitive search interface. ThoughtSpot connects with a wide range of data sources, whether on-premise or cloud-based, and is noted for its rapid deployment compared to traditional technologies. The company has established partnerships to enhance its capabilities and has served a diverse customer base, including notable organizations such as Amway and Chevron Federal Credit Union. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, ThoughtSpot has expanded its presence globally with additional offices in locations such as Bellevue, London, Duisburg, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Bengaluru, and Tokyo. Its mission focuses on making analytics accessible to a broad audience, aiming to democratize data-driven decision-making across organizations.

Eyeview

Series D in 2016
Eyeview Inc. develops video advertising technology solutions. It offers brands with ROI on their video advertising spend. It offers VideoIQ, a video platform that provides campaign, data, and media management services, as well as programmatic video creative services. The company also provides lead generation solution for clients in automotive industry that enables brands to drive leads with personalized video ads; in-store solution that leverages past purchase behavior to identify key segments for CPG and shopper marketers; in-store sales solution that enable retail marketers to drive sales; and online booking solution for travel marketers. Eyeview Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in New York, New York.

ThoughtSpot

Series C in 2016
ThoughtSpot, Inc. specializes in search-driven analytics for enterprises, enabling users to easily search, analyze, and share real-time business data. The platform is designed to empower individuals across various sectors, including retail, healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing, to derive insights and create reports through an intuitive search interface. ThoughtSpot connects with a wide range of data sources, whether on-premise or cloud-based, and is noted for its rapid deployment compared to traditional technologies. The company has established partnerships to enhance its capabilities and has served a diverse customer base, including notable organizations such as Amway and Chevron Federal Credit Union. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, ThoughtSpot has expanded its presence globally with additional offices in locations such as Bellevue, London, Duisburg, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Bengaluru, and Tokyo. Its mission focuses on making analytics accessible to a broad audience, aiming to democratize data-driven decision-making across organizations.

Eyeview

Series D in 2014
Eyeview Inc. develops video advertising technology solutions. It offers brands with ROI on their video advertising spend. It offers VideoIQ, a video platform that provides campaign, data, and media management services, as well as programmatic video creative services. The company also provides lead generation solution for clients in automotive industry that enables brands to drive leads with personalized video ads; in-store solution that leverages past purchase behavior to identify key segments for CPG and shopper marketers; in-store sales solution that enable retail marketers to drive sales; and online booking solution for travel marketers. Eyeview Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in New York, New York.

ThoughtSpot

Series B in 2014
ThoughtSpot, Inc. specializes in search-driven analytics for enterprises, enabling users to easily search, analyze, and share real-time business data. The platform is designed to empower individuals across various sectors, including retail, healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing, to derive insights and create reports through an intuitive search interface. ThoughtSpot connects with a wide range of data sources, whether on-premise or cloud-based, and is noted for its rapid deployment compared to traditional technologies. The company has established partnerships to enhance its capabilities and has served a diverse customer base, including notable organizations such as Amway and Chevron Federal Credit Union. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, ThoughtSpot has expanded its presence globally with additional offices in locations such as Bellevue, London, Duisburg, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Bengaluru, and Tokyo. Its mission focuses on making analytics accessible to a broad audience, aiming to democratize data-driven decision-making across organizations.

Eyeview

Series C in 2013
Eyeview Inc. develops video advertising technology solutions. It offers brands with ROI on their video advertising spend. It offers VideoIQ, a video platform that provides campaign, data, and media management services, as well as programmatic video creative services. The company also provides lead generation solution for clients in automotive industry that enables brands to drive leads with personalized video ads; in-store solution that leverages past purchase behavior to identify key segments for CPG and shopper marketers; in-store sales solution that enable retail marketers to drive sales; and online booking solution for travel marketers. Eyeview Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in New York, New York.

ThoughtSpot

Series A in 2012
ThoughtSpot, Inc. specializes in search-driven analytics for enterprises, enabling users to easily search, analyze, and share real-time business data. The platform is designed to empower individuals across various sectors, including retail, healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing, to derive insights and create reports through an intuitive search interface. ThoughtSpot connects with a wide range of data sources, whether on-premise or cloud-based, and is noted for its rapid deployment compared to traditional technologies. The company has established partnerships to enhance its capabilities and has served a diverse customer base, including notable organizations such as Amway and Chevron Federal Credit Union. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, ThoughtSpot has expanded its presence globally with additional offices in locations such as Bellevue, London, Duisburg, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Bengaluru, and Tokyo. Its mission focuses on making analytics accessible to a broad audience, aiming to democratize data-driven decision-making across organizations.

Eyeview

Series B in 2012
Eyeview Inc. develops video advertising technology solutions. It offers brands with ROI on their video advertising spend. It offers VideoIQ, a video platform that provides campaign, data, and media management services, as well as programmatic video creative services. The company also provides lead generation solution for clients in automotive industry that enables brands to drive leads with personalized video ads; in-store solution that leverages past purchase behavior to identify key segments for CPG and shopper marketers; in-store sales solution that enable retail marketers to drive sales; and online booking solution for travel marketers. Eyeview Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in New York, New York.

Eyeview

Series A in 2010
Eyeview Inc. develops video advertising technology solutions. It offers brands with ROI on their video advertising spend. It offers VideoIQ, a video platform that provides campaign, data, and media management services, as well as programmatic video creative services. The company also provides lead generation solution for clients in automotive industry that enables brands to drive leads with personalized video ads; in-store solution that leverages past purchase behavior to identify key segments for CPG and shopper marketers; in-store sales solution that enable retail marketers to drive sales; and online booking solution for travel marketers. Eyeview Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in New York, New York.

Kosmix

Series D in 2008
Kosmix is a web navigation platform that enables users to explore the Internet by topic. It presents a dashboard filled with relevant multimedia content, including videos, photos, news, and community discussions, all organized into magazine-style topic pages. This categorization engine facilitates user navigation even when they are uncertain about their specific interests. Founded in 2005 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman in Mountain View, California, Kosmix originally began as a vertical search engine with the introduction of RightHealth.com, which has since become a prominent health site. Over time, the company transitioned to a broader approach, expanding its services to cover a wider array of topics. Kosmix has received funding from notable investors, including Accel Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The founders previously established Junglee, the first shopping search engine, and contributed to Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

Eyeview

Seed Round in 2008
Eyeview Inc. develops video advertising technology solutions. It offers brands with ROI on their video advertising spend. It offers VideoIQ, a video platform that provides campaign, data, and media management services, as well as programmatic video creative services. The company also provides lead generation solution for clients in automotive industry that enables brands to drive leads with personalized video ads; in-store solution that leverages past purchase behavior to identify key segments for CPG and shopper marketers; in-store sales solution that enable retail marketers to drive sales; and online booking solution for travel marketers. Eyeview Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in New York, New York.

Kosmix

Series C in 2007
Kosmix is a web navigation platform that enables users to explore the Internet by topic. It presents a dashboard filled with relevant multimedia content, including videos, photos, news, and community discussions, all organized into magazine-style topic pages. This categorization engine facilitates user navigation even when they are uncertain about their specific interests. Founded in 2005 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman in Mountain View, California, Kosmix originally began as a vertical search engine with the introduction of RightHealth.com, which has since become a prominent health site. Over time, the company transitioned to a broader approach, expanding its services to cover a wider array of topics. Kosmix has received funding from notable investors, including Accel Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The founders previously established Junglee, the first shopping search engine, and contributed to Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

TheFind

Series C in 2007
TheFind applies patented ecommerce technology to make the consumer shopping experience easy, efficient and fun. TheFind's powerful shopping search works across the Web looking through every store to quickly find you the best deal and even that hard-to-find item. Uniquely personalized just for you, TheFind continuously learns your taste and style from your activity, likes and purchases, showing you more from your favorite stores and brands. Finally, TheFind organizes all your shopping activity to quickly see what you've been looking for and what you’ve bought, and automatically tracks your shipments, returns and receipts. Experience TheFind by downloading our app on your iPad, iPhone or Android device, or visit us on the Web at www.thefind.com. TheFind is venture funded by Bain Capital Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures and is a San Francisco and Silicon Valley-based company.

TheFind

Series B in 2006
TheFind applies patented ecommerce technology to make the consumer shopping experience easy, efficient and fun. TheFind's powerful shopping search works across the Web looking through every store to quickly find you the best deal and even that hard-to-find item. Uniquely personalized just for you, TheFind continuously learns your taste and style from your activity, likes and purchases, showing you more from your favorite stores and brands. Finally, TheFind organizes all your shopping activity to quickly see what you've been looking for and what you’ve bought, and automatically tracks your shipments, returns and receipts. Experience TheFind by downloading our app on your iPad, iPhone or Android device, or visit us on the Web at www.thefind.com. TheFind is venture funded by Bain Capital Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures and is a San Francisco and Silicon Valley-based company.

Kosmix

Series B in 2006
Kosmix is a web navigation platform that enables users to explore the Internet by topic. It presents a dashboard filled with relevant multimedia content, including videos, photos, news, and community discussions, all organized into magazine-style topic pages. This categorization engine facilitates user navigation even when they are uncertain about their specific interests. Founded in 2005 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman in Mountain View, California, Kosmix originally began as a vertical search engine with the introduction of RightHealth.com, which has since become a prominent health site. Over time, the company transitioned to a broader approach, expanding its services to cover a wider array of topics. Kosmix has received funding from notable investors, including Accel Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The founders previously established Junglee, the first shopping search engine, and contributed to Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

Kosmix

Series A in 2005
Kosmix is a web navigation platform that enables users to explore the Internet by topic. It presents a dashboard filled with relevant multimedia content, including videos, photos, news, and community discussions, all organized into magazine-style topic pages. This categorization engine facilitates user navigation even when they are uncertain about their specific interests. Founded in 2005 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman in Mountain View, California, Kosmix originally began as a vertical search engine with the introduction of RightHealth.com, which has since become a prominent health site. Over time, the company transitioned to a broader approach, expanding its services to cover a wider array of topics. Kosmix has received funding from notable investors, including Accel Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The founders previously established Junglee, the first shopping search engine, and contributed to Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

FatLens

Series A in 2005
FatLens is the first e-commerce search engine built with patent-pending technology specifically to enhance your online shopping experience. Innovative FatLens technology instantaneously brings you the web's most comprehensive, relevant and unbiased product search results, and the first-ever integrated search with instant messaging for real-time, collaborative online shopping with your friends and family. FatLens provides you the web's most comprehensive e-commerce search results by indexing relevant data from the most number of e-commerce sites and exhaustively categorizing all of the for-sale items at each crawled site. FatLens brings you the most relevant results to your product search through our patent-pending TRIP™ scoring system that accurately matches the indexed and categorized items for sale to your query. Built-in category intelligence easily handles nicknames, misspellings, synonyms and also "fuzzy" matches for providing the greatest relevancy. FatLens also uniquely enhances your e-commerce experience by integrating search with popular instant messaging products (Yahoo! Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger). FatLens enables you to interact in real-time with your friends and family to quickly complete joint or group buying, get timely expert advice or validation, and of course enjoy sharing the online shopping experience. You can search for products you want to buy, select specific products of interest to you to share with your friends and family. By invoking the IM/Collaboration capability (just click the share using Yahoo! Messenger button or AIM button) you can invite your IM buddies to view, share, and refine your product preferences online while also chatting about your choices. The company was founded by an experienced team of entrepreneurs and technologists who have co-founded and worked at successful Internet and search engine technology companies in Silicon Valley. FatLens started operations in 2003 and received its first venture financing from Redpoint Ventures and Cambrian Ventures.

TheFind

Series A in 2005
TheFind applies patented ecommerce technology to make the consumer shopping experience easy, efficient and fun. TheFind's powerful shopping search works across the Web looking through every store to quickly find you the best deal and even that hard-to-find item. Uniquely personalized just for you, TheFind continuously learns your taste and style from your activity, likes and purchases, showing you more from your favorite stores and brands. Finally, TheFind organizes all your shopping activity to quickly see what you've been looking for and what you’ve bought, and automatically tracks your shipments, returns and receipts. Experience TheFind by downloading our app on your iPad, iPhone or Android device, or visit us on the Web at www.thefind.com. TheFind is venture funded by Bain Capital Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures and is a San Francisco and Silicon Valley-based company.