Lightspeed Israel

Lightspeed Israel, established in 2006, is a venture capital firm based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It invests in seed, early, and later-stage companies across the information technology and TMT sectors. The firm focuses on supporting innovative Israeli startups, providing capital and strategic guidance to accelerate their growth. Lightspeed Israel typically invests between $2 million to $25 million per company, with a particular interest in enterprise, health, fintech, and consumer sectors. It manages multiple funds, including Lightspeed Venture Partners IX and Lightspeed India Partners I & II, to support its investment activities in Israel and India.

Shaurya Aggarwal

Partner

Vaibhav Agrawal

Venture Partner

James Alcorn

Partner

Saqib Awan

Partner

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner and Head of Gaming

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Luke Beseda

Partner

Akshay Bhushan

Partner

Taggart Bonham

Partner

Guru Chahal

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Sun Daniel

Partner

Amish Desai

Partner

Barry Eggers

Co-Founder and Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

James Ephrati

Partner

Jack Fowler

Partner

Aaron Frank

Venture Partner

Adam Goldberg

Venture Partner

Globin Guo

Executive Director

Gaurav Gupta

Partner

David Gussarsky

Partner

Herry Han

Co-Founder and Partner

Lisa Han

Partner

Rob Horton JD

COO

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Galym Imanbayev MD

Partner

Nnamdi Iregbulem

Partner

Raviraj Jain

Partner

Arif Janmohamed

Partner

Julie Kainz

Partner

Ansaf Kareem

Partner

Alex Kayyal

Partner

Dev Khare

Partner

Issac Kim

Partner

Harsha Kumar

Associate Partner

Pinn Lawjindakul

Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Will Leas

Partner

Jeremy Liew

Partner

Connor Love

Partner

John Luongo

Venture Partner

Natalie Luu

Partner

Naveed Matinfar

Partner

Ravi Mhatre

Co-Founder and Partner

James Mi

Founding Partner

Andrew Moley

Operating Partner and CFO

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Peter Nieh

Partner and Co-Founder

Justin Overdorff

Partner

Zac Pan

Associate Partner

Apoorva Pandhi

Associate

Krish Parikh

Partner of Business Services

Nicole Quinn

General Partner

Adrian Nicholas Radu

Partner

Christopher Schaepe

Co-Founder

Alexander Schmitt

Partner

Shan Shan

Partner

Justin Shen

Partner

Justin Shen

Partner

Shuvi Shrivastava

Partner

Ishaan Preet Singh

Investor

Adam Smith

Partner

Bejul Somaia

Partner

Rahul Taneja

Partner

Alex Taussig

Partner

John Thompson

Venture Partner

Anoushka Vaswani

Partner

Rytis Vitkauskas

Partner

Jason Wang

Vice President

Nathan Wang

Vice President

Nathan Wu

Partner, Growth

Mark Xu

Partner

Cici Yang

Vice President

Jerry Ye

Partner, Data Platform

Haowei Zhai

Vice President

Issac Zhang

Vice President

Ju Zhang

Executive Director

Gavin Zhu

Partner

Hu Peipei

Investment Manager

Past deals in Autonomous Vehicles

Saronic Technologies

Series C in 2025
Saronic Technologies specializes in the design and manufacture of advanced unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). These vehicles are equipped with cutting-edge hardware, software, and artificial intelligence, creating a scalable and integrated platform for enhancing maritime security and domain awareness. Tailored for defense and surveillance applications, Saronic's products offer comprehensive operational capabilities to naval and maritime forces.

Saronic Technologies

Series B in 2024
Saronic Technologies specializes in the design and manufacture of advanced unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). These vehicles are equipped with cutting-edge hardware, software, and artificial intelligence, creating a scalable and integrated platform for enhancing maritime security and domain awareness. Tailored for defense and surveillance applications, Saronic's products offer comprehensive operational capabilities to naval and maritime forces.

Saronic Technologies

Series A in 2023
Saronic Technologies specializes in the design and manufacture of advanced unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). These vehicles are equipped with cutting-edge hardware, software, and artificial intelligence, creating a scalable and integrated platform for enhancing maritime security and domain awareness. Tailored for defense and surveillance applications, Saronic's products offer comprehensive operational capabilities to naval and maritime forces.

Ruitai Microelectronics

Series A in 2023
Ruitai Microelectronics is a domestic supplier of high-performance analog and analog-digital hybrid chips for intelligent networked vehicles.

CenoBots (Cenozoic Robotics)

Series A in 2022
Cenozoic Robotics is a global leading provider for the cleaning industry. Founded in 2021, Cenozoic Robotics is headquartered in Singapore with offices in Hong Kong and Hangzhou. Employing knowledge and experience in L4 autonomous driving technology, the Cenozoic team realized the potential to provide customers with faster service and higher quality products than currently on the world market. With this goal in mind, Michael Wang, the founder and the CEO of Cenozoic Robotics, and his team established the company and entered the cleaning industry dedicated to renewing cleaning services with state-of-the-art technologies. Up to now, Cenozoic robots have been deployed at multiple sites in Singapore, Japan, and South Korea.

Apex.AI

Series B in 2021
Apex.AI, Inc. is a software company that focuses on developing solutions for autonomous mobility systems, particularly self-driving vehicles. Founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company offers Apex.OS, a software framework that simplifies the complexity of hardware and software integration through user-friendly APIs. Additionally, Apex.AI provides Apex.Autonomy, which is tailored for safety-critical applications, and MARV.Automotive, a versatile data management platform that facilitates data transfer between vehicles and the cloud. This platform allows for advanced analytics, data introspection, and team collaboration. Apex.AI's software products leverage open-source technologies, enabling developers to create secure and efficient applications for autonomous vehicles.

Kodiak Robotics

Series B in 2021
Kodiak Robotics, Inc. is focused on developing autonomous technology specifically for long-haul trucking. Founded in 2018 and based in Mountain View, California, the company specializes in creating self-driving trucks designed to operate on highway routes. Kodiak Robotics employs advanced sensor fusion systems and innovative mapping solutions to enable its vehicles to manage all aspects of highway driving. This technology aims to enhance network efficiency and reduce operational costs for businesses in the logistics sector.

Reliable Robotics

Series C in 2021
Reliable Robotics, founded in 2017 by Robert Rose and Juerg Frefel, specializes in developing certified autonomous aircraft automation systems aimed at enhancing safety, availability, and affordability in commercial aviation. The company's technology enables remote operation of various aircraft types, facilitating access to a wider range of locations. By employing a certification-forward approach, Reliable Robotics seeks to transform and streamline the airline industry through fully automated gate-to-gate operations. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company operates with a distributed global workforce, striving to revolutionize air transportation for both goods and people.

MetaX

Series A in 2021
Muxi is dedicated to providing full-stack GPU chips and heterogeneous computing solutions that can be widely used in cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence, smart cities, data centers, cloud computing, autonomous driving, digital twins, metaverse, and so on. It builds full-stack GPU chip products, launching MXN series GPUs (Xi Si) for AI reasoning, MXC series GPUs (Xi Yun) for AI training and general computing, and MXG series GPUs (Xi Cai) for graphics rendering, Meet the computing power requirements of data centers for "high energy efficiency" and "high versatility". Mu Xi's products all use independently developed GPU IP, have instruction sets and architectures with completely independent intellectual property rights, and are outfitted with a complete software stack (MACAMACA) compatible with mainstream GPU ecosystems. In September 2020, the company was founded in Shanghai, and it has wholly-owned subsidiaries and R&D centers in Beijing, Nanjing, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, and Wuhan.

Hesai Technology

Series D in 2021
Hesai Technology is a company based in Shanghai, China, founded in 2014. It specializes in designing laser radar systems using smart sensing technology. The primary application of these systems is to facilitate autonomous driving by enabling car companies to monitor mixed gas composition and detect hazardous leaks. Additionally, Hesai Technology develops natural gas leak detection systems for industrial processes. Its LiDAR products are used in a variety of applications including advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), autonomous vehicle fleets, last-mile delivery robots, street sweeping robots, and logistics robots. The company operates through two main segments: the LiDAR segment and the gas detection segment, with the former being the primary revenue generator.

MetaX

Seed Round in 2021
Muxi is dedicated to providing full-stack GPU chips and heterogeneous computing solutions that can be widely used in cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence, smart cities, data centers, cloud computing, autonomous driving, digital twins, metaverse, and so on. It builds full-stack GPU chip products, launching MXN series GPUs (Xi Si) for AI reasoning, MXC series GPUs (Xi Yun) for AI training and general computing, and MXG series GPUs (Xi Cai) for graphics rendering, Meet the computing power requirements of data centers for "high energy efficiency" and "high versatility". Mu Xi's products all use independently developed GPU IP, have instruction sets and architectures with completely independent intellectual property rights, and are outfitted with a complete software stack (MACAMACA) compatible with mainstream GPU ecosystems. In September 2020, the company was founded in Shanghai, and it has wholly-owned subsidiaries and R&D centers in Beijing, Nanjing, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, and Wuhan.

Standard Robots

Series B in 2020
Standard Robots, established on June 14, 2016, in Baoan, Guangdong, specializes in the research, development, manufacturing, and marketing of laser SLAM autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and Robot Internet of Things (RIoT) software systems. The company targets the semiconductor, auto parts, and energy industries, offering standardized solutions that enhance the flexibility and agility of mobile robots in manufacturing environments. By focusing on repeatable algorithm application scenarios, Standard Robots enables clients to achieve intelligent logistics transformation, providing a scalable application with predictable outcomes and dedicated services.

Hesai Technology

Series C in 2020
Hesai Technology is a company based in Shanghai, China, founded in 2014. It specializes in designing laser radar systems using smart sensing technology. The primary application of these systems is to facilitate autonomous driving by enabling car companies to monitor mixed gas composition and detect hazardous leaks. Additionally, Hesai Technology develops natural gas leak detection systems for industrial processes. Its LiDAR products are used in a variety of applications including advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), autonomous vehicle fleets, last-mile delivery robots, street sweeping robots, and logistics robots. The company operates through two main segments: the LiDAR segment and the gas detection segment, with the former being the primary revenue generator.

Apex.AI

Venture Round in 2019
Apex.AI, Inc. is a software company that focuses on developing solutions for autonomous mobility systems, particularly self-driving vehicles. Founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company offers Apex.OS, a software framework that simplifies the complexity of hardware and software integration through user-friendly APIs. Additionally, Apex.AI provides Apex.Autonomy, which is tailored for safety-critical applications, and MARV.Automotive, a versatile data management platform that facilitates data transfer between vehicles and the cloud. This platform allows for advanced analytics, data introspection, and team collaboration. Apex.AI's software products leverage open-source technologies, enabling developers to create secure and efficient applications for autonomous vehicles.

Cognicept Systems

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Cognicept Systems specializes in providing hybrid robotics AI through its Smart+ telerobotic intervention technology and remote robot pilots. The company focuses on enhancing the reliability of robotic systems by offering a remote intervention operating system that addresses common challenges associated with autonomous robotics in unpredictable environments. Its platform facilitates autonomy for robots operating in unstructured settings, allowing clients to manage tasks efficiently and reliably. By offering supervised autonomy tools and services, Cognicept enables easier and more economical deployment of robots, bridging the gap between technological capabilities and customer needs. These resources are particularly beneficial during the prototyping and testing phases of robotics development, helping teams avoid the complexities of developing such tools in-house.

Aurora

Series B in 2019
Aurora is a self-driving vehicle company providing a platform that brings software and data services to operate passenger vehicles. To move both people and goods, the company develops Aurora Driver, a platform that brings together software, hardware, and data services to operate passenger vehicles, light commercial vehicles, and heavy-duty trucks. Aurora is backed by Amazon and Sequoia, among others, and partners with industry leaders including Toyota, Uber, Volvo, and Paccar. Aurora tests its vehicles in the Bay Area, Pittsburgh, and Dallas. The company has offices in those areas as well as in Bozeman, MT; Seattle, WA; Louisville, CO; and Wixom, MI.

Reliable Robotics

Series B in 2019
Reliable Robotics, founded in 2017 by Robert Rose and Juerg Frefel, specializes in developing certified autonomous aircraft automation systems aimed at enhancing safety, availability, and affordability in commercial aviation. The company's technology enables remote operation of various aircraft types, facilitating access to a wider range of locations. By employing a certification-forward approach, Reliable Robotics seeks to transform and streamline the airline industry through fully automated gate-to-gate operations. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company operates with a distributed global workforce, striving to revolutionize air transportation for both goods and people.

Apex.AI

Series A in 2018
Apex.AI, Inc. is a software company that focuses on developing solutions for autonomous mobility systems, particularly self-driving vehicles. Founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company offers Apex.OS, a software framework that simplifies the complexity of hardware and software integration through user-friendly APIs. Additionally, Apex.AI provides Apex.Autonomy, which is tailored for safety-critical applications, and MARV.Automotive, a versatile data management platform that facilitates data transfer between vehicles and the cloud. This platform allows for advanced analytics, data introspection, and team collaboration. Apex.AI's software products leverage open-source technologies, enabling developers to create secure and efficient applications for autonomous vehicles.

Kodiak Robotics

Series A in 2018
Kodiak Robotics, Inc. is focused on developing autonomous technology specifically for long-haul trucking. Founded in 2018 and based in Mountain View, California, the company specializes in creating self-driving trucks designed to operate on highway routes. Kodiak Robotics employs advanced sensor fusion systems and innovative mapping solutions to enable its vehicles to manage all aspects of highway driving. This technology aims to enhance network efficiency and reduce operational costs for businesses in the logistics sector.

Reliable Robotics

Series A in 2017
Reliable Robotics, founded in 2017 by Robert Rose and Juerg Frefel, specializes in developing certified autonomous aircraft automation systems aimed at enhancing safety, availability, and affordability in commercial aviation. The company's technology enables remote operation of various aircraft types, facilitating access to a wider range of locations. By employing a certification-forward approach, Reliable Robotics seeks to transform and streamline the airline industry through fully automated gate-to-gate operations. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company operates with a distributed global workforce, striving to revolutionize air transportation for both goods and people.

Citadel Defense

Series A in 2017
Citadel Defense Company specializes in developing and manufacturing counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) that address the threats posed by commercially available drones. Founded in 2016 and based in National City, California, the company offers automated and modular drone defense solutions that leverage proprietary machine learning algorithms for threat detection and engagement. Citadel's products include a mobile semi-autonomous mitigation solution that employs a multi-layered protection model, enabling clients to monitor airspace and neutralize unauthorized drones effectively. The company's expertise is drawn from a team with extensive experience in both commercial and military drone sectors. Citadel's clientele includes various branches of the United States military, the Department of Homeland Security, and other governmental agencies, reflecting its focus on providing reliable solutions for military, government, and commercial end-users.

Hesai Technology

Series B in 2017
Hesai Technology is a company based in Shanghai, China, founded in 2014. It specializes in designing laser radar systems using smart sensing technology. The primary application of these systems is to facilitate autonomous driving by enabling car companies to monitor mixed gas composition and detect hazardous leaks. Additionally, Hesai Technology develops natural gas leak detection systems for industrial processes. Its LiDAR products are used in a variety of applications including advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), autonomous vehicle fleets, last-mile delivery robots, street sweeping robots, and logistics robots. The company operates through two main segments: the LiDAR segment and the gas detection segment, with the former being the primary revenue generator.

Plus

Seed Round in 2016
Plus is a global provider of highly automated and fully autonomous driving solutions, headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, with operations in the U.S. and Germany. The company develops AI-based autonomous driving software that addresses the driving intelligence challenge, utilizing an advanced autonomy technology platform. This platform is designed to enable safe, high-performance, and affordable autonomous vehicles at scale, employing a comprehensive 360-degree sensing system that integrates radar, LiDAR, and cameras for object detection. Plus collaborates with leading vehicle manufacturers, fleets, and technology companies worldwide, contributing to safer, more comfortable, and sustainable driving experiences. The company has garnered recognition for its innovative technology and business progress from multiple industry awards and publications.
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