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 PaaS

Blink Ops

Series A in 2022
Blink is a cloud-native operations platform that allows SRE's, DevOps and Developers to easily manage, collaborate and automate operational tasks.

Salto

Series B in 2021
Salto Labs Inc. provides a dashboard for companies to manage their business applications and services. It offers universal configuration language, multi service, multi environment, and dual works mode services. The company provides technology, which includes NaCL, workspace, state, graph view, adapters, fetch, and deploy. It offers business applications, which includes Salesforce, NetSuite, Marketo, and HubSpot. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Aqua Security

Series E in 2021
Aqua Security helps enterprises secure their cloud native, container-based and serverless applications from development to production. Aqua bridges the gap between DevOps and security, promoting business agility and accelerating digital transformation. Aqua’s Cloud Native Security Platform provides full visibility and security automation across the entire application lifecycle, using a modern zero-touch approach to detect and prevent threats while simplifying regulatory compliance. Aqua customers include some of the world’s largest financial services, software development, internet, media, hospitality and retail companies, with implementations across the globe spanning a broad range of cloud providers and on-premise technologies. Aqua’s Container Security Platform provides full visibility into container activity, allowing organizations to detect and prevent suspicious activity and attacks, providing transparent, automated security while helping to enforce policy and simplify regulatory compliance.

Salto

Series A in 2020
Salto Labs Inc. provides a dashboard for companies to manage their business applications and services. It offers universal configuration language, multi service, multi environment, and dual works mode services. The company provides technology, which includes NaCL, workspace, state, graph view, adapters, fetch, and deploy. It offers business applications, which includes Salesforce, NetSuite, Marketo, and HubSpot. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Aqua Security

Series D in 2020
Aqua Security helps enterprises secure their cloud native, container-based and serverless applications from development to production. Aqua bridges the gap between DevOps and security, promoting business agility and accelerating digital transformation. Aqua’s Cloud Native Security Platform provides full visibility and security automation across the entire application lifecycle, using a modern zero-touch approach to detect and prevent threats while simplifying regulatory compliance. Aqua customers include some of the world’s largest financial services, software development, internet, media, hospitality and retail companies, with implementations across the globe spanning a broad range of cloud providers and on-premise technologies. Aqua’s Container Security Platform provides full visibility into container activity, allowing organizations to detect and prevent suspicious activity and attacks, providing transparent, automated security while helping to enforce policy and simplify regulatory compliance.

Aqua Security

Series D in 2020
Aqua Security helps enterprises secure their cloud native, container-based and serverless applications from development to production. Aqua bridges the gap between DevOps and security, promoting business agility and accelerating digital transformation. Aqua’s Cloud Native Security Platform provides full visibility and security automation across the entire application lifecycle, using a modern zero-touch approach to detect and prevent threats while simplifying regulatory compliance. Aqua customers include some of the world’s largest financial services, software development, internet, media, hospitality and retail companies, with implementations across the globe spanning a broad range of cloud providers and on-premise technologies. Aqua’s Container Security Platform provides full visibility into container activity, allowing organizations to detect and prevent suspicious activity and attacks, providing transparent, automated security while helping to enforce policy and simplify regulatory compliance.

Epsagon

Series A in 2020
Epsagon is a developer of a SaaS platform designed to enhance performance monitoring and troubleshooting for serverless and microservice applications. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, Epsagon provides Dev and Ops teams with automated data correlation, payloads, and comprehensive observability across various environments, including containers, virtual machines, and serverless architectures. Its lightweight agent SDK enables automated instrumentation and tracing, ensuring full visibility without the need for extensive training, manual coding, or maintenance. The platform aims to reduce application downtime, accelerate feature deployment, and streamline the process of identifying and resolving issues, ultimately helping organizations optimize costs and improve engineering efficiency.

AMD Pensando

Series C in 2019
Founded in 2017, Pensando Systems is advancing distributed computing designed for the New Edge, powering software-defined cloud, compute, networking, storage and security services to transform existing architectures into secure, ultra-fast environments demanded by next-generation applications. The platform was developed in collaboration with the largest cloud, enterprise, storage, and telecommunications leaders and is supported by partnerships and investments with HPE, NetApp, Equinix, and multiple Fortune 500 customers.

Aqua Security

Series C in 2019
Aqua Security helps enterprises secure their cloud native, container-based and serverless applications from development to production. Aqua bridges the gap between DevOps and security, promoting business agility and accelerating digital transformation. Aqua’s Cloud Native Security Platform provides full visibility and security automation across the entire application lifecycle, using a modern zero-touch approach to detect and prevent threats while simplifying regulatory compliance. Aqua customers include some of the world’s largest financial services, software development, internet, media, hospitality and retail companies, with implementations across the globe spanning a broad range of cloud providers and on-premise technologies. Aqua’s Container Security Platform provides full visibility into container activity, allowing organizations to detect and prevent suspicious activity and attacks, providing transparent, automated security while helping to enforce policy and simplify regulatory compliance.

Serverless

Series A in 2018
Serverless provides development framework for building serverless architectures. It offers Serverless Framework that enables users to build auto-scaling, pay-per-execution, and event-driven apps on AWS Lambda; and develop their own plugins. Serverless also provides an application structure for the management of code, resources, and events across large projects and teams. Austen Collins founded it in 2015, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California.

CloudBees

Series E in 2018
CloudBees, Inc. is a provider of software solutions focused on enhancing the software delivery process for IT organizations. Founded in 2010, the company specializes in continuous integration and continuous delivery technologies, primarily built around the Jenkins platform. CloudBees offers a suite of products, including an open-source automation server, CloudBees CI for continuous integration, and CloudBees CD for continuous delivery. Their solutions cater to various deployment preferences, including on-premise and cloud-native, and address specific enterprise requirements for governance and developer flexibility. Additionally, CloudBees provides tools like CloudBees DevOptics, which aggregates data from software pipelines for better insights, and CloudBees Core for Kubernetes Continuous Delivery, aimed at managing cloud-native applications. With a focus on making software development more efficient and manageable, CloudBees enables organizations to accelerate the transformation of ideas into software, thereby enhancing overall business value. The company operates from multiple locations, including Delaware, California, North Carolina, Virginia, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

Epsagon

Seed Round in 2018
Epsagon is a developer of a SaaS platform designed to enhance performance monitoring and troubleshooting for serverless and microservice applications. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, Epsagon provides Dev and Ops teams with automated data correlation, payloads, and comprehensive observability across various environments, including containers, virtual machines, and serverless architectures. Its lightweight agent SDK enables automated instrumentation and tracing, ensuring full visibility without the need for extensive training, manual coding, or maintenance. The platform aims to reduce application downtime, accelerate feature deployment, and streamline the process of identifying and resolving issues, ultimately helping organizations optimize costs and improve engineering efficiency.

Aqua Security

Series B in 2017
Aqua Security helps enterprises secure their cloud native, container-based and serverless applications from development to production. Aqua bridges the gap between DevOps and security, promoting business agility and accelerating digital transformation. Aqua’s Cloud Native Security Platform provides full visibility and security automation across the entire application lifecycle, using a modern zero-touch approach to detect and prevent threats while simplifying regulatory compliance. Aqua customers include some of the world’s largest financial services, software development, internet, media, hospitality and retail companies, with implementations across the globe spanning a broad range of cloud providers and on-premise technologies. Aqua’s Container Security Platform provides full visibility into container activity, allowing organizations to detect and prevent suspicious activity and attacks, providing transparent, automated security while helping to enforce policy and simplify regulatory compliance.

Plexxi

Series D in 2015
Plexxi, an affinity-driven networking solutions provider, develops an optimized network that improves the performance of applications. The company offers networking solutions for data center computing needs. It delivers converged, application-defined network infrastructure building blocks and systems for building software-defined data centers and public/private clouds. The solutions enable Cloud Builders to harness the power of a single, simple platform to create private/public/hybrid cloud and data center networks.

CloudPassage

Series D in 2015
CloudPassage® Halo® is the world’s leading agile security platform that provides instant visibility and continuous protection for servers in any combination of data centers, private clouds and public clouds. The Halo platform is delivered as a service, so it deploys in minutes and scales on-demand. Halo uses minimal system resources; so layered security can be deployed where it counts, right at every workload – servers, instances and containers. Leading enterprises like Citrix, Salesforce.com and Adobe use CloudPassage today to enhance their security and compliance posture, while at the same time enabling business agility. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, CloudPassage is backed by Benchmark Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Tenaya Capital, Shasta Ventures, Musea Ventures and other leading investors.

CloudBees

Series D in 2015
CloudBees, Inc. is a provider of software solutions focused on enhancing the software delivery process for IT organizations. Founded in 2010, the company specializes in continuous integration and continuous delivery technologies, primarily built around the Jenkins platform. CloudBees offers a suite of products, including an open-source automation server, CloudBees CI for continuous integration, and CloudBees CD for continuous delivery. Their solutions cater to various deployment preferences, including on-premise and cloud-native, and address specific enterprise requirements for governance and developer flexibility. Additionally, CloudBees provides tools like CloudBees DevOptics, which aggregates data from software pipelines for better insights, and CloudBees Core for Kubernetes Continuous Delivery, aimed at managing cloud-native applications. With a focus on making software development more efficient and manageable, CloudBees enables organizations to accelerate the transformation of ideas into software, thereby enhancing overall business value. The company operates from multiple locations, including Delaware, California, North Carolina, Virginia, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

Pivot3

Series E in 2014
Pivot3 specializes in simplifying data center operations by integrating storage, compute, and network resources into streamlined solutions. The company offers Dynamic Hyperconverged Infrastructure and PCIe Flash Arrays designed to improve resource utilization and provide high availability for mission-critical applications. Pivot3's technologies have helped numerous enterprises reduce the total cost of ownership of their IT infrastructure, enhance customer satisfaction, and boost employee productivity. With a diverse product portfolio optimized for various applications, including server virtualization, video surveillance, and disaster recovery, Pivot3 has successfully deployed over 16,000 hyperconverged systems and flash storage solutions across 53 countries. Its clientele ranges from mid-sized businesses to major corporations in sectors such as energy, aerospace, logistics, and telecommunications, all benefiting from Pivot3's innovative approach to building a smarter IT infrastructure.

CloudBees

Series C in 2014
CloudBees, Inc. is a provider of software solutions focused on enhancing the software delivery process for IT organizations. Founded in 2010, the company specializes in continuous integration and continuous delivery technologies, primarily built around the Jenkins platform. CloudBees offers a suite of products, including an open-source automation server, CloudBees CI for continuous integration, and CloudBees CD for continuous delivery. Their solutions cater to various deployment preferences, including on-premise and cloud-native, and address specific enterprise requirements for governance and developer flexibility. Additionally, CloudBees provides tools like CloudBees DevOptics, which aggregates data from software pipelines for better insights, and CloudBees Core for Kubernetes Continuous Delivery, aimed at managing cloud-native applications. With a focus on making software development more efficient and manageable, CloudBees enables organizations to accelerate the transformation of ideas into software, thereby enhancing overall business value. The company operates from multiple locations, including Delaware, California, North Carolina, Virginia, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

Pivot3

Venture Round in 2013
Pivot3 specializes in simplifying data center operations by integrating storage, compute, and network resources into streamlined solutions. The company offers Dynamic Hyperconverged Infrastructure and PCIe Flash Arrays designed to improve resource utilization and provide high availability for mission-critical applications. Pivot3's technologies have helped numerous enterprises reduce the total cost of ownership of their IT infrastructure, enhance customer satisfaction, and boost employee productivity. With a diverse product portfolio optimized for various applications, including server virtualization, video surveillance, and disaster recovery, Pivot3 has successfully deployed over 16,000 hyperconverged systems and flash storage solutions across 53 countries. Its clientele ranges from mid-sized businesses to major corporations in sectors such as energy, aerospace, logistics, and telecommunications, all benefiting from Pivot3's innovative approach to building a smarter IT infrastructure.

Plexxi

Series C in 2012
Plexxi, an affinity-driven networking solutions provider, develops an optimized network that improves the performance of applications. The company offers networking solutions for data center computing needs. It delivers converged, application-defined network infrastructure building blocks and systems for building software-defined data centers and public/private clouds. The solutions enable Cloud Builders to harness the power of a single, simple platform to create private/public/hybrid cloud and data center networks.

Pivot3

Venture Round in 2012
Pivot3 specializes in simplifying data center operations by integrating storage, compute, and network resources into streamlined solutions. The company offers Dynamic Hyperconverged Infrastructure and PCIe Flash Arrays designed to improve resource utilization and provide high availability for mission-critical applications. Pivot3's technologies have helped numerous enterprises reduce the total cost of ownership of their IT infrastructure, enhance customer satisfaction, and boost employee productivity. With a diverse product portfolio optimized for various applications, including server virtualization, video surveillance, and disaster recovery, Pivot3 has successfully deployed over 16,000 hyperconverged systems and flash storage solutions across 53 countries. Its clientele ranges from mid-sized businesses to major corporations in sectors such as energy, aerospace, logistics, and telecommunications, all benefiting from Pivot3's innovative approach to building a smarter IT infrastructure.

Plexxi

Series B in 2011
Plexxi, an affinity-driven networking solutions provider, develops an optimized network that improves the performance of applications. The company offers networking solutions for data center computing needs. It delivers converged, application-defined network infrastructure building blocks and systems for building software-defined data centers and public/private clouds. The solutions enable Cloud Builders to harness the power of a single, simple platform to create private/public/hybrid cloud and data center networks.

CloudBees

Series B in 2011
CloudBees, Inc. is a provider of software solutions focused on enhancing the software delivery process for IT organizations. Founded in 2010, the company specializes in continuous integration and continuous delivery technologies, primarily built around the Jenkins platform. CloudBees offers a suite of products, including an open-source automation server, CloudBees CI for continuous integration, and CloudBees CD for continuous delivery. Their solutions cater to various deployment preferences, including on-premise and cloud-native, and address specific enterprise requirements for governance and developer flexibility. Additionally, CloudBees provides tools like CloudBees DevOptics, which aggregates data from software pipelines for better insights, and CloudBees Core for Kubernetes Continuous Delivery, aimed at managing cloud-native applications. With a focus on making software development more efficient and manageable, CloudBees enables organizations to accelerate the transformation of ideas into software, thereby enhancing overall business value. The company operates from multiple locations, including Delaware, California, North Carolina, Virginia, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

Pivot3

Series D in 2010
Pivot3 specializes in simplifying data center operations by integrating storage, compute, and network resources into streamlined solutions. The company offers Dynamic Hyperconverged Infrastructure and PCIe Flash Arrays designed to improve resource utilization and provide high availability for mission-critical applications. Pivot3's technologies have helped numerous enterprises reduce the total cost of ownership of their IT infrastructure, enhance customer satisfaction, and boost employee productivity. With a diverse product portfolio optimized for various applications, including server virtualization, video surveillance, and disaster recovery, Pivot3 has successfully deployed over 16,000 hyperconverged systems and flash storage solutions across 53 countries. Its clientele ranges from mid-sized businesses to major corporations in sectors such as energy, aerospace, logistics, and telecommunications, all benefiting from Pivot3's innovative approach to building a smarter IT infrastructure.

Pivot3

Venture Round in 2009
Pivot3 specializes in simplifying data center operations by integrating storage, compute, and network resources into streamlined solutions. The company offers Dynamic Hyperconverged Infrastructure and PCIe Flash Arrays designed to improve resource utilization and provide high availability for mission-critical applications. Pivot3's technologies have helped numerous enterprises reduce the total cost of ownership of their IT infrastructure, enhance customer satisfaction, and boost employee productivity. With a diverse product portfolio optimized for various applications, including server virtualization, video surveillance, and disaster recovery, Pivot3 has successfully deployed over 16,000 hyperconverged systems and flash storage solutions across 53 countries. Its clientele ranges from mid-sized businesses to major corporations in sectors such as energy, aerospace, logistics, and telecommunications, all benefiting from Pivot3's innovative approach to building a smarter IT infrastructure.

Aprius

Series B in 2008
Aprius is a privately held, venture funded company in Silicon Valley developing top-of-rack I/O Gateway systems, that provide the enterprise data center with new levels of resource sharing, I/O virtualization and low-latency clustering messaging.

Pivot3

Series C in 2008
Pivot3 specializes in simplifying data center operations by integrating storage, compute, and network resources into streamlined solutions. The company offers Dynamic Hyperconverged Infrastructure and PCIe Flash Arrays designed to improve resource utilization and provide high availability for mission-critical applications. Pivot3's technologies have helped numerous enterprises reduce the total cost of ownership of their IT infrastructure, enhance customer satisfaction, and boost employee productivity. With a diverse product portfolio optimized for various applications, including server virtualization, video surveillance, and disaster recovery, Pivot3 has successfully deployed over 16,000 hyperconverged systems and flash storage solutions across 53 countries. Its clientele ranges from mid-sized businesses to major corporations in sectors such as energy, aerospace, logistics, and telecommunications, all benefiting from Pivot3's innovative approach to building a smarter IT infrastructure.

Pivot3

Venture Round in 2007
Pivot3 specializes in simplifying data center operations by integrating storage, compute, and network resources into streamlined solutions. The company offers Dynamic Hyperconverged Infrastructure and PCIe Flash Arrays designed to improve resource utilization and provide high availability for mission-critical applications. Pivot3's technologies have helped numerous enterprises reduce the total cost of ownership of their IT infrastructure, enhance customer satisfaction, and boost employee productivity. With a diverse product portfolio optimized for various applications, including server virtualization, video surveillance, and disaster recovery, Pivot3 has successfully deployed over 16,000 hyperconverged systems and flash storage solutions across 53 countries. Its clientele ranges from mid-sized businesses to major corporations in sectors such as energy, aerospace, logistics, and telecommunications, all benefiting from Pivot3's innovative approach to building a smarter IT infrastructure.

Aprius

Series A in 2007
Aprius is a privately held, venture funded company in Silicon Valley developing top-of-rack I/O Gateway systems, that provide the enterprise data center with new levels of resource sharing, I/O virtualization and low-latency clustering messaging.

Aprius

Series A in 2006
Aprius is a privately held, venture funded company in Silicon Valley developing top-of-rack I/O Gateway systems, that provide the enterprise data center with new levels of resource sharing, I/O virtualization and low-latency clustering messaging.

Pivot3

Series B in 2005
Pivot3 specializes in simplifying data center operations by integrating storage, compute, and network resources into streamlined solutions. The company offers Dynamic Hyperconverged Infrastructure and PCIe Flash Arrays designed to improve resource utilization and provide high availability for mission-critical applications. Pivot3's technologies have helped numerous enterprises reduce the total cost of ownership of their IT infrastructure, enhance customer satisfaction, and boost employee productivity. With a diverse product portfolio optimized for various applications, including server virtualization, video surveillance, and disaster recovery, Pivot3 has successfully deployed over 16,000 hyperconverged systems and flash storage solutions across 53 countries. Its clientele ranges from mid-sized businesses to major corporations in sectors such as energy, aerospace, logistics, and telecommunications, all benefiting from Pivot3's innovative approach to building a smarter IT infrastructure.

Pluris

Series D in 2000
Pluris is focused on developing next-generation IP core infrastructure, utilizing its Teraplex architecture to offer enhanced scalability, fault-tolerance, and performance. This innovative design aims to provide service providers with a future that eliminates the need for costly and disruptive upgrades. In addition to its core infrastructure solutions, Pluris offers valuation advisory and daily marks services, catering to high-volume clients, large institutions, and diverse portfolios globally. Through these services, Pluris supports its clients in navigating complex valuation challenges in an ever-evolving market landscape.