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 Video Streaming

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.

Kalam Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Kalam Labs is a live game streaming platform at the intersection of K-12 learning and multiplayer gaming.

Curastory

Seed Round in 2021
Curastory is video made simple. We allow content creators to shoot, edit, monetize, and distribute their video content to all of their video channels, like YouTube, IGTV, and FB Watch, for free. Content creators upload videos within our platform to edit where we then match it to brand advertisers for monetization before they distribute the final video to all of their video channels. Brands browse videos in the self-serving ad platform to bid on and advertise through creator-recorded video ad segments. Our ad platform tracks consumer conversions to make sure our brands are seeing high return on their video ad spend and our creators are being paid for their videos everywhere.

Firework

Series A in 2021
Firework is one of the fastest growing interactive video platforms on mobile.

Rheo TV

Seed Round in 2020
Rheo TV is a game-streaming platform that aims to make professional game streaming a mainstream career option in India by building an entertainment ecosystem that drives engagement and monetization. Today, India has nearly 200 million active gamers on smartphones. Ubiquitous internet infrastructure and affordable smartphones are leading to the increasing popularity of multiplayer online gaming in India, and Rheo TV is tapping into this phenomenon.

Rheo TV

Seed Round in 2019
Rheo TV is a game-streaming platform that aims to make professional game streaming a mainstream career option in India by building an entertainment ecosystem that drives engagement and monetization. Today, India has nearly 200 million active gamers on smartphones. Ubiquitous internet infrastructure and affordable smartphones are leading to the increasing popularity of multiplayer online gaming in India, and Rheo TV is tapping into this phenomenon.

InVideo

Seed Round in 2019
InVideo video creation platform that helps to make professional videos from premium templates, images, and music. The platform also helps publishers, media companies, and brands to expand audience engagement through the power of video content. It allows users to create videos from scratch, convert existing pieces of static content into videos, and even add automated voiceovers in native languages. InVideo cuts the time to create a professional quality video by over 90% and allows the creator to focus on impact and message. The platform generated over 800,000 users from more than 150 countries who have created videos in over 75 languages. InVideo was founded in 2017 and is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Firework

Series A in 2019
Firework is one of the fastest growing interactive video platforms on mobile.

Firework

Series A in 2018
Firework is one of the fastest growing interactive video platforms on mobile.

cheddar

Series D in 2018
Cheddar is a media and entertainment company that operates two live video news networks: Cheddar, focusing on business news, and Cheddar Big News, which offers general news and headlines. The company broadcasts from various prominent locations, including the New York Stock Exchange and its studios in New York and Los Angeles. Cheddar reaches over 6.5 million viewers monthly through platforms such as SlingTV, Hulu Live, YouTube TV, and social media channels like Facebook and Twitter, accumulating hundreds of millions of video views across these platforms. The company aims to provide an authentic voice and a fresh perspective on a wide range of topics, including business, culture, media, and technology, appealing to a diverse and intellectually curious audience. Founded by Jon Steinberg, Cheddar seeks to deliver updated news live and on-demand, reflecting the dynamism of modern media consumption.

Intermedia Labs

Venture Round in 2018
Intermedia Labs is a consumer-based video technology firm inventing the future of television.

Streamlio

Series A in 2017
Streamlio delivers the integrated solution for real-time data. The Streamlio solution is built on leading open source technologies for messaging, processing, and storage of streaming data that have been proven at scale in companies including Twitter and Yahoo. Founded by industry veterans and funded by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Streamlio helps organizations build the data-driven applications they need to react to data in real-time.

cheddar

Series C in 2017
Cheddar is a media and entertainment company that operates two live video news networks: Cheddar, focusing on business news, and Cheddar Big News, which offers general news and headlines. The company broadcasts from various prominent locations, including the New York Stock Exchange and its studios in New York and Los Angeles. Cheddar reaches over 6.5 million viewers monthly through platforms such as SlingTV, Hulu Live, YouTube TV, and social media channels like Facebook and Twitter, accumulating hundreds of millions of video views across these platforms. The company aims to provide an authentic voice and a fresh perspective on a wide range of topics, including business, culture, media, and technology, appealing to a diverse and intellectually curious audience. Founded by Jon Steinberg, Cheddar seeks to deliver updated news live and on-demand, reflecting the dynamism of modern media consumption.

cheddar

Series B in 2016
Cheddar is a media and entertainment company that operates two live video news networks: Cheddar, focusing on business news, and Cheddar Big News, which offers general news and headlines. The company broadcasts from various prominent locations, including the New York Stock Exchange and its studios in New York and Los Angeles. Cheddar reaches over 6.5 million viewers monthly through platforms such as SlingTV, Hulu Live, YouTube TV, and social media channels like Facebook and Twitter, accumulating hundreds of millions of video views across these platforms. The company aims to provide an authentic voice and a fresh perspective on a wide range of topics, including business, culture, media, and technology, appealing to a diverse and intellectually curious audience. Founded by Jon Steinberg, Cheddar seeks to deliver updated news live and on-demand, reflecting the dynamism of modern media consumption.

LiveU

Series D in 2012
LiveU creates, develops and markets real-time video technologies and solutions that enable video broadcasters to uplink and transmit live instantly, anywhere, and at anytime.

Firework

Series A in 2012
Shanghai Spark Information Technology Co., Ltd. (火花TV) is a Chinese company specialized in the development of mobile internet-based TV series and mobile applications. It offers Firework, a video discovery community that enables users to find videos easily.

StreetFire

Series B in 2008
StreetFire is a vertical social media site for Automotive Enthusiasts. With over a million monthly unique visitors and streaming more than a million videos daily, StreetFire is one of the largest web sites dedicated to providing services to the automotive community.

StreetFire

Series A in 2007
StreetFire is a vertical social media site for Automotive Enthusiasts. With over a million monthly unique visitors and streaming more than a million videos daily, StreetFire is one of the largest web sites dedicated to providing services to the automotive community.