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.
Sarona 4 Zvi Strachilevich Street Tel Aviv 6473957 Israel
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
Sebastian Duesterhoeft
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
Will Kohler
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
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 Computer Vision
Dexterity
Venture Round in 2025
Dexterity Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, specializes in robot dexterity solutions for logistics, warehousing, and supply chain operations. The company offers a 'robots as a service' model, providing businesses with efficient integration of robotics into their supply chain. Dexterity's flagship product, DexR, is a two-armed robot equipped with machine vision and force sensing technologies, designed for tasks such as truck loading.
Reflection.Ai
Series A in 2025
Reflection.AI is a start-up that develops artificial intelligence solutions, focusing on computer vision. The company provides tools to create personalized AIs that can interact and chat just like real people, using cutting-edge technology.
X Square
Seed Round in 2025
X Square is a company focused on developing universal embodied large models for robots, aiming to create a universal brain-cerebellum system that offers comprehensive capabilities from perception to action.
Stability AI
Venture Round in 2024
Stability AI is a startup specializing in artificial intelligence-driven visual art. It designs and develops open AI tools, focusing on creating open models for various media types such as images, videos, 3D, and audio. The company fosters a global community of experts and partners, promoting collaboration in AI tool development.
Intenseye
Series B in 2024
Intenseye Inc. is a technology company based in San Jose, California, founded in 2018, specializing in AI-powered video analytics for occupational health and safety. The platform enables enterprises to monitor their facilities continuously by utilizing existing cameras to conduct automated inspections without the need for additional hardware. Through advanced computer vision and machine learning, Intenseye's software analyzes real-time video feeds to identify safety violations, such as improper use of personal protective equipment and hazardous conditions. This capability allows health and safety teams to receive immediate notifications of potential risks, facilitating rapid response measures. Importantly, Intenseye's system is designed to protect worker privacy by not capturing personally identifiable information. The company aims to enhance workplace safety while providing clients with scalable and effective tools to mitigate accidents and improve overall operational safety.
Sarvam AI
Seed Round in 2023
Sarvam AI focuses on advancing artificial intelligence research to enhance the performance, reliability, and affordability of generative AI application development in India. The company develops sophisticated large language models tailored to the country's diverse linguistic environment, providing a user-friendly platform for creating and assessing generative AI applications. Sarvam AI emphasizes open-source collaboration, allowing businesses to leverage modern AI technology to gain a competitive advantage in their respective markets.
Sarvam AI
Series A in 2023
Sarvam AI focuses on advancing artificial intelligence research to enhance the performance, reliability, and affordability of generative AI application development in India. The company develops sophisticated large language models tailored to the country's diverse linguistic environment, providing a user-friendly platform for creating and assessing generative AI applications. Sarvam AI emphasizes open-source collaboration, allowing businesses to leverage modern AI technology to gain a competitive advantage in their respective markets.
Tavus
Seed Round in 2023
Tavus is an AI research company that specializes in creating immersive digital experiences that replicate face-to-face interactions. Their innovative platform utilizes advanced AI avatar models to enable developers and businesses to produce both asynchronous and real-time video experiences featuring human digital twins. This technology is particularly beneficial for sales teams, as it allows them to enhance their outreach efforts by generating realistic personalized videos that effectively mimic customers' gestures and voices. Clients can easily record a single video, which Tavus' platform then transforms into customized content that can be viewed with just one click.
DAISCH
Series A in 2022
DAISCH, established in 2015 and headquartered in Shanghai, China, specializes in high-precision motion and position sensing systems and tool chains for autonomous driving. The company offers industrial unmanned aerial vehicles and autonomous vehicles, leveraging technologies such as carrier phase differential, inertial navigation, and machine vision to provide precise positioning and environmental information for self-driving vehicles across varied road conditions.
Smartex.ai
Series A in 2022
Smartex.ai is an AI and computer vision company that uses automated inspection to detect textile defects. It also uses cutting-edge AI tech in order to solve some of the biggest problems of an outdated yet so relevant sector which is the Textile Industry. Our company is bringing the most sophisticated state-of-the-art technologies of Machine Learning and Computer Vision in order to detect textile defects and irregularities in real-time, acting on the knitting machines as a way to reduce defective production to close to 0%. This high-tech solution is able to not only stop the production of defects during production, using hardware and software but also improve the business by offering a user interface where the factories can check their stats regarding the production.
Stability AI
Seed Round in 2022
Stability AI is a startup specializing in artificial intelligence-driven visual art. It designs and develops open AI tools, focusing on creating open models for various media types such as images, videos, 3D, and audio. The company fosters a global community of experts and partners, promoting collaboration in AI tool development.
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.
Dexterity
Series B in 2021
Dexterity Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, specializes in robot dexterity solutions for logistics, warehousing, and supply chain operations. The company offers a 'robots as a service' model, providing businesses with efficient integration of robotics into their supply chain. Dexterity's flagship product, DexR, is a two-armed robot equipped with machine vision and force sensing technologies, designed for tasks such as truck loading.
Snorkel AI
Series C in 2021
Snorkel AI, Inc. is a company that develops a comprehensive machine-learning platform designed to facilitate the creation, management, and monitoring of AI applications. Its primary offering, Snorkel Flow, allows users to programmatically label and augment training data, manage and integrate various datasets, and deploy machine learning models, while also providing tools for data analysis and monitoring. The platform is particularly effective in extracting structured information from complex documents and forms, as well as ranking content based on relevance. Founded in 2016 and based in Palo Alto, California, Snorkel AI serves a diverse range of industries, including finance, government, telecommunications, insurance, healthcare, and e-commerce. The technology was developed at Stanford AI Lab and employs innovative methods such as weak supervision to enhance data preparation, thereby streamlining the AI development process for enterprises.
Oosto
Series C in 2021
Oosto is a technology company that specializes in advanced facial recognition systems aimed at enhancing security and safety for enterprises. Its solutions enable real-time analysis of safety threats and the identification of persons of interest through an automated watchlist alerting system. This technology not only assists in classifying objects but also tracks individuals' contact histories, all while prioritizing the privacy of bystanders. Oosto's innovations aim to create secure environments where customers, employees, and guests can access spaces and services confidently and conveniently, without compromising ethical standards.
Snorkel AI
Series B in 2021
Snorkel AI, Inc. is a company that develops a comprehensive machine-learning platform designed to facilitate the creation, management, and monitoring of AI applications. Its primary offering, Snorkel Flow, allows users to programmatically label and augment training data, manage and integrate various datasets, and deploy machine learning models, while also providing tools for data analysis and monitoring. The platform is particularly effective in extracting structured information from complex documents and forms, as well as ranking content based on relevance. Founded in 2016 and based in Palo Alto, California, Snorkel AI serves a diverse range of industries, including finance, government, telecommunications, insurance, healthcare, and e-commerce. The technology was developed at Stanford AI Lab and employs innovative methods such as weak supervision to enhance data preparation, thereby streamlining the AI development process for enterprises.
Rephrase.ai
Seed Round in 2020
Rephrase.ai specializes in an AI-powered video creation technology that transforms text into animated videos featuring realistic facial representations of individuals. This innovative approach employs generative AI to analyze and learn the facial features of specific people in relation to spoken audio, allowing the system to create photorealistic visuals for any new text or audio input. The platform serves a variety of applications, enabling clients to produce training videos, personalize sales presentations, animate characters in augmented and virtual reality, and provide a visual identity for digital assistants. Through its advanced technology, Rephrase.ai enhances the way organizations communicate and engage with their audiences.
Oosto
Series B in 2020
Oosto is a technology company that specializes in advanced facial recognition systems aimed at enhancing security and safety for enterprises. Its solutions enable real-time analysis of safety threats and the identification of persons of interest through an automated watchlist alerting system. This technology not only assists in classifying objects but also tracks individuals' contact histories, all while prioritizing the privacy of bystanders. Oosto's innovations aim to create secure environments where customers, employees, and guests can access spaces and services confidently and conveniently, without compromising ethical standards.
Dexterity
Series A in 2020
Dexterity Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, specializes in robot dexterity solutions for logistics, warehousing, and supply chain operations. The company offers a 'robots as a service' model, providing businesses with efficient integration of robotics into their supply chain. Dexterity's flagship product, DexR, is a two-armed robot equipped with machine vision and force sensing technologies, designed for tasks such as truck loading.
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.
Impira
Series B in 2019
Impira, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco that specializes in managing unstructured data through its artificial intelligence platform. Founded in 2017, Impira offers a solution that integrates with existing systems to consolidate various data sources, including product information, images, and documents. Its primary product streamlines workflows by automating the extraction and organization of data from files such as PDFs and scanned documents, enabling nontechnical users to easily retrieve structured information. Additionally, the company provides Mango, a platform specifically designed for searching contracts and extracting key fields like party names and effective dates. By employing machine learning and computer vision, Impira enhances the efficiency of data management and supports users in focusing on more strategic tasks, ultimately improving productivity and workplace morale.
Oosto
Series A in 2019
Oosto is a technology company that specializes in advanced facial recognition systems aimed at enhancing security and safety for enterprises. Its solutions enable real-time analysis of safety threats and the identification of persons of interest through an automated watchlist alerting system. This technology not only assists in classifying objects but also tracks individuals' contact histories, all while prioritizing the privacy of bystanders. Oosto's innovations aim to create secure environments where customers, employees, and guests can access spaces and services confidently and conveniently, without compromising ethical standards.
Illumix
Seed Round in 2018
Illumix is a technology and gaming studio focused on enhancing augmented reality (AR) experiences. The company develops foundational capabilities and user interactions that facilitate the creation of dynamic AR games. By integrating advanced technologies with gaming practices and research in computer vision, Illumix supports game developers in crafting interactive experiences that respond to real-time environmental changes. This innovative approach not only improves the quality of AR content but also expands its applications across entertainment venues and marketing campaigns, ensuring that users engage with immersive digital experiences.
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.
Impira
Series A in 2017
Impira, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco that specializes in managing unstructured data through its artificial intelligence platform. Founded in 2017, Impira offers a solution that integrates with existing systems to consolidate various data sources, including product information, images, and documents. Its primary product streamlines workflows by automating the extraction and organization of data from files such as PDFs and scanned documents, enabling nontechnical users to easily retrieve structured information. Additionally, the company provides Mango, a platform specifically designed for searching contracts and extracting key fields like party names and effective dates. By employing machine learning and computer vision, Impira enhances the efficiency of data management and supports users in focusing on more strategic tasks, ultimately improving productivity and workplace morale.
Eonite Perception
Seed Round in 2016
Eonite Perception Inc. specializes in developing advanced inside-out positional tracking software that enhances machines' ability to perceive and interact with the real world. Founded in 2015 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company provides a three-dimensional mapping and ego-tracking system utilizing commodity dense depth sensors. Eonite's technology serves various applications, including augmented and virtual reality, home-scale 3D scanning, and industries such as robotics, architecture, engineering, and construction. Their software development kit empowers developers to create applications that require high positional accuracy and low latency, facilitating innovations in robotics and drones. By leveraging proprietary computer vision algorithms, Eonite aims to redefine how devices localize and detect obstacles, contributing to the future of immersive technologies and intelligent machines.
Sarvam AI
Sarvam AI focuses on advancing artificial intelligence research to enhance the performance, reliability, and affordability of generative AI application development in India. The company develops sophisticated large language models tailored to the country's diverse linguistic environment, providing a user-friendly platform for creating and assessing generative AI applications. Sarvam AI emphasizes open-source collaboration, allowing businesses to leverage modern AI technology to gain a competitive advantage in their respective markets.
Snorkel AI
Snorkel AI, Inc. is a company that develops a comprehensive machine-learning platform designed to facilitate the creation, management, and monitoring of AI applications. Its primary offering, Snorkel Flow, allows users to programmatically label and augment training data, manage and integrate various datasets, and deploy machine learning models, while also providing tools for data analysis and monitoring. The platform is particularly effective in extracting structured information from complex documents and forms, as well as ranking content based on relevance. Founded in 2016 and based in Palo Alto, California, Snorkel AI serves a diverse range of industries, including finance, government, telecommunications, insurance, healthcare, and e-commerce. The technology was developed at Stanford AI Lab and employs innovative methods such as weak supervision to enhance data preparation, thereby streamlining the AI development process for enterprises.
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