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.

Mark Anderson

Venture Partner

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

Ajay Sudan

Partner

John Wendell Thompson

Venture Partner

Rytis Vitkauskas

Partner

Scott Young

VP of Technology

Johnna (Harriott) Lesch

Vice President of Finance

Past deals in FMCG

MAYD

Series A in 2022
MAYD Group operates as a startup that delivers medicines in minutes.

Frubana

Series C in 2021
Frubana S.A.S. is a Bogotá-based B2B platform established in 2018 that specializes in providing fruits, vegetables, and other agricultural products to restaurants and small retailers in Latin America. By eliminating intermediaries in the food supply chain, Frubana enhances price transparency and reduces barriers to trade, allowing restaurants to source ingredients directly from producers. The company operates an online store that facilitates logistics and builds trust within the marketplace, ensuring that clients have access to quality food products efficiently.

Frubana

Series B in 2021
Frubana S.A.S. is a Bogotá-based B2B platform established in 2018 that specializes in providing fruits, vegetables, and other agricultural products to restaurants and small retailers in Latin America. By eliminating intermediaries in the food supply chain, Frubana enhances price transparency and reduces barriers to trade, allowing restaurants to source ingredients directly from producers. The company operates an online store that facilitates logistics and builds trust within the marketplace, ensuring that clients have access to quality food products efficiently.

FreshMenu

Venture Round in 2020
FreshMenu offers a food delivery service that provides fresh and tasty cuisines of the highest standard. FreshMenu’s meal packages are now available for delivery at Koramangala, Richmond Town, Langford Town, Lavelle Road, MG Road, Victoria Layout, Domlur, Old Airport Road, Indiranagar, Ulsoor, Old Madras Road, Whitefield, Marathahalli, Bellandur, Sarjapur Road, HSR Layout, Bannerghatta Road, Jayanagar and JP Nagar areas.

CleanCo

Seed Round in 2020
CleanCo produces low and no alcohol spirits. CleanCo provides drinks for consumers who are looking to moderate their alcohol consumption, but not compromise on the taste that they love.

Brandable

Series B in 2019
Brandable, Inc. is a consumer packaging goods company based in Beverly Hills, California, founded in 2017 by Oliver Bogner. The company specializes in building modern, consumer-focused brands in the toys, wellness, and food and drink sectors. Brandable offers services such as influencer acquisition and brand management, aiming to enhance brand visibility and engagement. It has established itself as a significant supplier to major North American retailers, including Walmart and Target, and is known for its innovative approach to launching consumer products. By leveraging unique, influencer-driven marketing strategies, Brandable effectively creates demand across various channels, positioning itself as a key player in the modern retail landscape.

FreshMenu

Series B in 2019
FreshMenu offers a food delivery service that provides fresh and tasty cuisines of the highest standard. FreshMenu’s meal packages are now available for delivery at Koramangala, Richmond Town, Langford Town, Lavelle Road, MG Road, Victoria Layout, Domlur, Old Airport Road, Indiranagar, Ulsoor, Old Madras Road, Whitefield, Marathahalli, Bellandur, Sarjapur Road, HSR Layout, Bannerghatta Road, Jayanagar and JP Nagar areas.

Pocket FM

Seed Round in 2018
Pocket FM Pvt. Ltd. is a Bengaluru-based company that operates an audio sharing platform, primarily focused on vernacular content. Founded in 2018, Pocket FM provides a web-based mobile application that allows users to listen to and share a wide range of audio content, including news, finance, stories, and entertainment, in local Indian languages. The platform features over 10,000 audiobooks across various categories such as biography, romance, self-help, and spirituality, expertly narrated by professional speakers. Additionally, Pocket FM offers a diverse array of audio series spanning genres like fantasy, science fiction, and horror, enabling users to engage with long-form audio entertainment. The platform aims to enhance the listening experience while connecting users with creators and podcasts globally.

Xingbianli

Corporate Round in 2018
Xingbianli is a checkout-free convenience store operator engaged on placing snack bars in offices. The company focuses in developing checkout-free convenience stores and snack bars. Its snack bars provide drinks, biscuits, and instant noodle to office workers, and allows customers to pay via mobile payment options like WeChat Pay and Alipay.

Brandable

Series A in 2018
Brandable, Inc. is a consumer packaging goods company based in Beverly Hills, California, founded in 2017 by Oliver Bogner. The company specializes in building modern, consumer-focused brands in the toys, wellness, and food and drink sectors. Brandable offers services such as influencer acquisition and brand management, aiming to enhance brand visibility and engagement. It has established itself as a significant supplier to major North American retailers, including Walmart and Target, and is known for its innovative approach to launching consumer products. By leveraging unique, influencer-driven marketing strategies, Brandable effectively creates demand across various channels, positioning itself as a key player in the modern retail landscape.

FastFox

Series A in 2018
FastFox is building a central pool of house inventory, gathered by its captive agents from different localities. Their technology allows the agents to dip into this pool and find the most relevant houses to be shown to the customer leads given to them. Effectively, FastFox.com is a market network of home seekers and captive agents regulated by technology and the central pool of home inventory.

Fashionara

Venture Round in 2016
Fashionara offers a range of premium merchandise in fashion and lifestyle.

FreshMenu

Series B in 2016
FreshMenu offers a food delivery service that provides fresh and tasty cuisines of the highest standard. FreshMenu’s meal packages are now available for delivery at Koramangala, Richmond Town, Langford Town, Lavelle Road, MG Road, Victoria Layout, Domlur, Old Airport Road, Indiranagar, Ulsoor, Old Madras Road, Whitefield, Marathahalli, Bellandur, Sarjapur Road, HSR Layout, Bannerghatta Road, Jayanagar and JP Nagar areas.

FreshMenu

Series A in 2015
FreshMenu offers a food delivery service that provides fresh and tasty cuisines of the highest standard. FreshMenu’s meal packages are now available for delivery at Koramangala, Richmond Town, Langford Town, Lavelle Road, MG Road, Victoria Layout, Domlur, Old Airport Road, Indiranagar, Ulsoor, Old Madras Road, Whitefield, Marathahalli, Bellandur, Sarjapur Road, HSR Layout, Bannerghatta Road, Jayanagar and JP Nagar areas.

Fresh Nation

Seed Round in 2014
Fresh Nation is an enterprise-level B2B wholesale marketplace and management platform for the retail grocery industry, operationalizing local and specialty food assortments for the nation’s largest retailers and distributors. Fresh Nation’s proprietary Virtual Supply Chain™ platform simplifies the complexity of working with thousands of small vendors, saving time and cutting costs. Incorporating a vendor and product rich CRM, interactive supplier portal, order management suite, accounting and invoicing tools, and flexible EDI/API integrations, Fresh Nation is becoming the grocery industry standard for enterprise specialty food management.

Fashionara

Series B in 2013
Fashionara offers a range of premium merchandise in fashion and lifestyle.

Fashionara

Series A in 2012
Fashionara offers a range of premium merchandise in fashion and lifestyle.