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

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Luke Beseda

Partner

Akshay Bhushan

Partner

Taggart Bonham

Partner

Ashley Brasier

Partner

Cai Wei

Partner

Guru Chahal

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Sun Daniel

Partner

Amish Desai

Partner

Sebastian Duesterhoeft

Partner

Barry Eggers

Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

James Ephrati

Partner

Faraz Fatemi

Partner

Jack Fowler

Partner

Aaron Frank

Venture Partner

Adam Goldberg

Venture Partner

Merci Grace

Partner

Globin Guo

Executive Director

Gaurav Gupta

Partner

David Gussarsky

Partner

Herry Han

Co-Founder and Partner

Lisa Han

Partner

Rob Horton JD

COO

Hu Peipei

Investment Manager

Galym Imanbayev MD

Partner

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Nnamdi Iregbulem

Partner

Arif Janmohamed

Partner

Julie Kainz

Partner

Francis Kao

Partner

Ansaf Kareem

Partner

Alex Kayyal

Partner

Dev Khare

Partner

Issac Kim

Partner

Will Kohler

Partner

Harsha Kumar

Associate Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Will Leas

Partner

Jeremy Liew

Partner

Connor Love

Partner

John Luongo

Venture Partner

Natalie Luu

Partner

Jonathan MacQuitty

Partner

Naveed Matinfar

Partner

Ravi Mhatre

Managing Director

James Mi

Partner

Hemant Mohapatra

Partner

Andrew Moley

Operating Partner and CFO

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Antoine Moyroud

Partner

Paul Murphy

Partner

Justin Overdorff

Partner

Zac Pan

Associate Partner

Apoorva Pandhi

Associate

Krish Parikh

Partner of Business Services

Nicole Quinn

General Partner

Adrian Nicholas Radu

Partner

Chris Schaepe

Co-Founder

Alexander Schmitt

Partner

Semil Shah

Venture Partner

Shan Shan

Partner

Justin Shen

Partner

Justin Shen

Partner

Shuvi Shrivastava

Partner

Ishaan Preet Singh

Investor

Bipul Sinha

Venture Partner

Bejul Somaia

Partner

Ajay Sudan

Venture Partner

Sydney Sykes

Partner

Rahul Taneja

Partner and Advisor

Alex Taussig

Partner

John Thompson

Venture Partner

John Thompson

Venture Partner

Anoushka Vaswani

Partner

Jason Wang

Partner

Nathan Wang

Vice President

Nathan Wu

Partner

Mark Xu

Partner

Mark Xu

Partner

Cici Yang

Vice President

Jerry Ye

Partner, Data Platform

Haowei Zhai

Vice President

Ju Zhang

Executive Director

Issac Zhang

Vice President

Gavin Zhu

Partner

Romit Mehta

Vice President and Advisor

Rohil Bagga

Vice President and Advisor

Past deals in Computer Vision

Dexterity

Venture Round in 2025
Dexterity Inc develops robot dexterity solutions for logistics, warehousing, and supply chain applications. The company offers a robotics as a service model that enables businesses to integrate robotics into their operations. Its flagship DexR is a two-armed robot designed for tasks such as truck loading and material handling, equipped with machine vision and force sensing. The company combines artificial intelligence, software, and hardware in a platform to deliver high productivity, precision, and safety in industrial environments, allowing clients to delegate repetitive tasks to robots and augment human potential.

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.

Intenseye

Series B in 2024
Intenseye Inc. is a technology company based in San Jose, California, specializing in an AI-powered video analytics platform designed to enhance health and safety in workplace environments. Founded in 2018, Intenseye's platform utilizes advanced computer vision and machine learning to analyze real-time video feeds from existing cameras, enabling clients to monitor workplace conditions continuously. The system provides automated inspections and immediate notifications of safety violations, such as improper use of personal protective equipment or hazardous behaviors. By focusing on privacy, Intenseye ensures that the visual data processed does not include personally identifiable information. The company's solutions are particularly beneficial for large enterprises seeking to improve employee safety while minimizing accidents and operational errors.

Sarvam AI

Seed Round in 2023
Sarvam AI is focused on advancing artificial intelligence research to enhance the robustness, performance, and cost-effectiveness of generative AI applications in India. The company develops advanced AI models and platforms tailored to the country's diverse linguistic landscape, offering efficient large language models. Its platform includes a user-friendly interface that facilitates the development and evaluation of generative AI applications. Sarvam AI emphasizes open-source collaboration, allowing businesses to leverage modern AI technology to gain a competitive advantage in the market. Through its innovative approach, the company aims to lead the way in AI application development and deployment.

Sarvam AI

Series A in 2023
Sarvam AI is focused on advancing artificial intelligence research to enhance the robustness, performance, and cost-effectiveness of generative AI applications in India. The company develops advanced AI models and platforms tailored to the country's diverse linguistic landscape, offering efficient large language models. Its platform includes a user-friendly interface that facilitates the development and evaluation of generative AI applications. Sarvam AI emphasizes open-source collaboration, allowing businesses to leverage modern AI technology to gain a competitive advantage in the market. Through its innovative approach, the company aims to lead the way in AI application development and deployment.

Tavus

Seed Round in 2023
Tavus is an AI research company that specializes in creating immersive digital experiences that parallel face-to-face interactions. The company develops a video personalization platform that leverages advanced artificial intelligence to generate realistic video content featuring digital avatars. These avatars can mimic customers' gestures and voices, allowing for the creation of personalized videos that enhance outreach efforts for sales teams. Tavus's technology enables clients to record once and subsequently generate customized videos with a single click, streamlining communication and engagement in both asynchronous and real-time settings.

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 focuses on addressing significant challenges in the textile industry by leveraging advanced AI technology, specifically machine learning and computer vision. The company has developed a hardware-enabled software solution that detects textile defects and irregularities in real time. By implementing this innovative system, Smartex can halt production when defects are identified, thereby minimizing defective output and reducing textile waste. This proactive approach not only enhances production efficiency but also contributes to sustainability by lowering carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and water usage. Moreover, Smartex provides factories with a user interface to monitor production statistics, further improving operational insights and decision-making capabilities.

Kodiak Robotics

Series B in 2021
Founded in 2018, Kodiak Robotics specializes in developing autonomous technology for long-haul trucking. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company focuses on creating safe and efficient self-driving trucks equipped with advanced sensor fusion systems.

Dexterity

Series B in 2021
Dexterity Inc develops robot dexterity solutions for logistics, warehousing, and supply chain applications. The company offers a robotics as a service model that enables businesses to integrate robotics into their operations. Its flagship DexR is a two-armed robot designed for tasks such as truck loading and material handling, equipped with machine vision and force sensing. The company combines artificial intelligence, software, and hardware in a platform to deliver high productivity, precision, and safety in industrial environments, allowing clients to delegate repetitive tasks to robots and augment human potential.

Snorkel AI

Series C in 2021
Snorkel AI, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an end-to-end machine-learning platform designed to facilitate the creation, management, and monitoring of AI applications. Founded in 2016 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company offers Snorkel Flow, a platform that enables programmatic data labeling, augmentation, and curation. This platform supports the clean integration and management of data for AI, as well as the training and deployment of various models. Snorkel AI's technology is particularly adept at extracting entities, relationships, and structured information from complex documents and forms, while also ranking content based on relevance and other factors. The company serves diverse sectors, including finance, government, telecommunications, insurance, healthcare, and e-commerce, and is recognized for its contributions to AI research through peer-reviewed publications.

Oosto

Series C in 2021
Oosto provides real-time threat analysis for enhanced security and safety, using AI-powered visual recognition technology. It helps enterprises protect customers, employees, and guests while maintaining ethical standards.

Snorkel AI

Series B in 2021
Snorkel AI, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an end-to-end machine-learning platform designed to facilitate the creation, management, and monitoring of AI applications. Founded in 2016 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company offers Snorkel Flow, a platform that enables programmatic data labeling, augmentation, and curation. This platform supports the clean integration and management of data for AI, as well as the training and deployment of various models. Snorkel AI's technology is particularly adept at extracting entities, relationships, and structured information from complex documents and forms, while also ranking content based on relevance and other factors. The company serves diverse sectors, including finance, government, telecommunications, insurance, healthcare, and e-commerce, and is recognized for its contributions to AI research through peer-reviewed publications.

Rephrase.ai

Seed Round in 2020
Rephrase.ai develops AI-powered video creation technology. It transforms any given text into photorealistic videos of people speaking that content, enabling clients to produce training videos, personalized sales videos, AR/VR characters, and digital assistants.

Oosto

Series B in 2020
Oosto provides real-time threat analysis for enhanced security and safety, using AI-powered visual recognition technology. It helps enterprises protect customers, employees, and guests while maintaining ethical standards.

Dexterity

Series A in 2020
Dexterity Inc develops robot dexterity solutions for logistics, warehousing, and supply chain applications. The company offers a robotics as a service model that enables businesses to integrate robotics into their operations. Its flagship DexR is a two-armed robot designed for tasks such as truck loading and material handling, equipped with machine vision and force sensing. The company combines artificial intelligence, software, and hardware in a platform to deliver high productivity, precision, and safety in industrial environments, allowing clients to delegate repetitive tasks to robots and augment human potential.

Cognicept Systems

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Cognicept Systems specializes in hybrid robotics artificial intelligence, offering innovative solutions through its Smart+ telerobotic intervention technology and remote robot pilots. The company focuses on enhancing the deployment of robotic systems by addressing the gap between technological capabilities and customer needs. Cognicept's platform provides supervised autonomy tools that ensure reliability in unpredictable applications, thereby expanding the operational potential of robots. This technology is particularly valuable during the prototyping and testing phases of robotics development, allowing teams to avoid the complexities of creating these tools in-house. By delivering a robust operating system for remote intervention, Cognicept empowers clients to efficiently manage tasks in unstructured environments.

AppZen

Series C in 2019
AppZen is an artificial intelligence company based in Sunnyvale, California, with an additional office in Pune, India. Founded in 2012, AppZen specializes in developing AI solutions for back-office automation, particularly focusing on expense report compliance and audit. The company's platform uses deep learning, computer vision, and semantic analysis to review financial transactions in real-time, cross-checking data with external sources and social media to detect fraud and ensure compliance with IRS rules, FCPA regulations, and company policies. AppZen serves various enterprises globally, including a significant portion of the Fortune 500, helping them reduce spending, comply with policy, and streamline processes.

Impira

Series B in 2019
Impira, Inc. is a technology company that develops an artificial intelligence platform designed to manage unstructured data, such as images, videos, PDFs, and scanned documents. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Impira integrates seamlessly with existing systems to consolidate various data sources, allowing users to gain a comprehensive view of their information. Its primary product automates the extraction of structured data from unstructured files, significantly streamlining workflows and reducing manual data entry. Additionally, Impira offers Mango, a specialized platform that utilizes AI to facilitate the searching and extraction of critical information from contracts, such as party names and renewal terms. By leveraging machine learning and computer vision, Impira enhances content management and helps organizations improve efficiency while fostering a more creative work environment.

Oosto

Series A in 2019
Oosto provides real-time threat analysis for enhanced security and safety, using AI-powered visual recognition technology. It helps enterprises protect customers, employees, and guests while maintaining ethical standards.

AppZen

Series B in 2018
AppZen is an artificial intelligence company based in Sunnyvale, California, with an additional office in Pune, India. Founded in 2012, AppZen specializes in developing AI solutions for back-office automation, particularly focusing on expense report compliance and audit. The company's platform uses deep learning, computer vision, and semantic analysis to review financial transactions in real-time, cross-checking data with external sources and social media to detect fraud and ensure compliance with IRS rules, FCPA regulations, and company policies. AppZen serves various enterprises globally, including a significant portion of the Fortune 500, helping them reduce spending, comply with policy, and streamline processes.

Illumix

Seed Round in 2018
Illumix is a technology studio focused on enhancing augmented reality (AR) experiences through innovative gaming solutions. The company develops foundational capabilities and user interactions that empower the creation of dynamic AR applications. By integrating advanced technologies, content, and gaming practices, Illumix aims to improve the future of AR across various sectors, including entertainment venues, marketing campaigns, and digital experiences. Their work emphasizes real-time interaction with environments, providing game developers with the tools needed to create immersive and engaging experiences. Through research and development in computer vision, Illumix positions itself at the forefront of AR technology, facilitating the next generation of interactive gaming.

Kodiak Robotics

Series A in 2018
Founded in 2018, Kodiak Robotics specializes in developing autonomous technology for long-haul trucking. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company focuses on creating safe and efficient self-driving trucks equipped with advanced sensor fusion systems.

Impira

Series A in 2017
Impira, Inc. is a technology company that develops an artificial intelligence platform designed to manage unstructured data, such as images, videos, PDFs, and scanned documents. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Impira integrates seamlessly with existing systems to consolidate various data sources, allowing users to gain a comprehensive view of their information. Its primary product automates the extraction of structured data from unstructured files, significantly streamlining workflows and reducing manual data entry. Additionally, Impira offers Mango, a specialized platform that utilizes AI to facilitate the searching and extraction of critical information from contracts, such as party names and renewal terms. By leveraging machine learning and computer vision, Impira enhances content management and helps organizations improve efficiency while fostering a more creative work environment.

Eonite Perception

Seed Round in 2016
Eonite Perception Inc. is a technology company based in Palo Alto, California, specializing in the development of advanced inside-out positional tracking software. Founded in 2015, Eonite creates three-dimensional mapping and ego-tracking systems that utilize commodity dense depth sensors. Their products cater to various markets, including augmented and virtual reality, home-scale 3D scanning, and robotics. The company offers a proprietary software development kit that enables developers to create applications across multiple industries, such as entertainment, architecture, engineering, and geographical information systems. Eonite’s AI-based software employs advanced computer vision algorithms to achieve sub-millimeter accuracy, facilitating improved localization and obstacle detection for robots and drones while maintaining low power consumption.

Snorkel AI

Snorkel AI, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an end-to-end machine-learning platform designed to facilitate the creation, management, and monitoring of AI applications. Founded in 2016 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company offers Snorkel Flow, a platform that enables programmatic data labeling, augmentation, and curation. This platform supports the clean integration and management of data for AI, as well as the training and deployment of various models. Snorkel AI's technology is particularly adept at extracting entities, relationships, and structured information from complex documents and forms, while also ranking content based on relevance and other factors. The company serves diverse sectors, including finance, government, telecommunications, insurance, healthcare, and e-commerce, and is recognized for its contributions to AI research through peer-reviewed publications.

Sarvam AI

Sarvam AI is focused on advancing artificial intelligence research to enhance the robustness, performance, and cost-effectiveness of generative AI applications in India. The company develops advanced AI models and platforms tailored to the country's diverse linguistic landscape, offering efficient large language models. Its platform includes a user-friendly interface that facilitates the development and evaluation of generative AI applications. Sarvam AI emphasizes open-source collaboration, allowing businesses to leverage modern AI technology to gain a competitive advantage in the market. Through its innovative approach, the company aims to lead the way in AI application development and deployment.
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