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 FinTechs

Finix

Venture Round in 2022
Finix Payments, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that provides a payment infrastructure platform designed to help businesses manage and monetize their payment processes effectively. Founded in 2015, Finix offers a range of services, including a payment facilitator platform that includes features such as tokenization, merchant onboarding, reporting, reconciliation, settlements, and chargeback management. The company enables businesses to avoid the complexities and costs associated with developing an in-house payment system. Additionally, through a partnership with Visa, Finix facilitates real-time push-to-card payments, enhancing the efficiency of disbursements. Finix's solutions aim to improve the payment experience for both businesses and their customers, recognizing the critical role that effective payment technology plays in driving revenue.

Personetics

Private Equity Round in 2022
Personetics Technologies Ltd. specializes in customer interaction technology tailored for the financial services sector. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in White Plains, New York, with research and development facilities in Nazareth, Israel, and additional offices in Singapore and Tel Aviv, the company offers solutions such as Personetics Digital Banker, which enhances customer engagement through self-service capabilities across multiple channels, including web and mobile. Its Personetics Anywhere platform allows financial institutions to deliver personalized assistance via messaging applications. Additionally, the Self-Driving Finance engagement platform provides varying levels of guidance for retail, small business, and wealth management clients, improving customer experience while reducing operational costs for financial institutions. By utilizing a real-time analytics engine, Personetics enables banks to better understand customer intent and convert passive users into active participants in digital banking.

Trading.TV

Series A in 2022
Trading.TV is the world's first social live stream and immersive chat platform for traders and financial content creators. Think, FinTech love child of Twitch and Slack.

Alloy

Series C in 2021
Alloy engages in helping financial institutions and fintech companies solve identity and compliance problems.

Till Financial

Venture Round in 2021
Till Financial is a developer of a digital financial platform intended to help kids monitor their spendings. The company's platform allows children to track their savings and investments independently with the help of collaborated and personalized guidance, thereby allowing families to inculcate money-saving habits in their kids in an efficient manner.

Personetics

Private Equity Round in 2021
Personetics Technologies Ltd. specializes in customer interaction technology tailored for the financial services sector. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in White Plains, New York, with research and development facilities in Nazareth, Israel, and additional offices in Singapore and Tel Aviv, the company offers solutions such as Personetics Digital Banker, which enhances customer engagement through self-service capabilities across multiple channels, including web and mobile. Its Personetics Anywhere platform allows financial institutions to deliver personalized assistance via messaging applications. Additionally, the Self-Driving Finance engagement platform provides varying levels of guidance for retail, small business, and wealth management clients, improving customer experience while reducing operational costs for financial institutions. By utilizing a real-time analytics engine, Personetics enables banks to better understand customer intent and convert passive users into active participants in digital banking.

Finix

Series B in 2020
Finix Payments, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that provides a payment infrastructure platform designed to help businesses manage and monetize their payment processes effectively. Founded in 2015, Finix offers a range of services, including a payment facilitator platform that includes features such as tokenization, merchant onboarding, reporting, reconciliation, settlements, and chargeback management. The company enables businesses to avoid the complexities and costs associated with developing an in-house payment system. Additionally, through a partnership with Visa, Finix facilitates real-time push-to-card payments, enhancing the efficiency of disbursements. Finix's solutions aim to improve the payment experience for both businesses and their customers, recognizing the critical role that effective payment technology plays in driving revenue.

Teller

Seed Round in 2020
Teller, Inc. provides solutions for users to connect their bank accounts to an app. The company offers a suite of technical infrastructure APIs to enable developers to build financial products for connecting consumers and financial institutions. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Personetics

Series B in 2013
Personetics Technologies Ltd. specializes in customer interaction technology tailored for the financial services sector. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in White Plains, New York, with research and development facilities in Nazareth, Israel, and additional offices in Singapore and Tel Aviv, the company offers solutions such as Personetics Digital Banker, which enhances customer engagement through self-service capabilities across multiple channels, including web and mobile. Its Personetics Anywhere platform allows financial institutions to deliver personalized assistance via messaging applications. Additionally, the Self-Driving Finance engagement platform provides varying levels of guidance for retail, small business, and wealth management clients, improving customer experience while reducing operational costs for financial institutions. By utilizing a real-time analytics engine, Personetics enables banks to better understand customer intent and convert passive users into active participants in digital banking.