Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm established in 1998 that focuses on investing in early-stage companies across a diverse range of sectors. The firm targets technology-led businesses as well as non-technology opportunities in areas such as advertising and media, healthcare, education, financial services, and retail. It engages in various investment stages, including seed, early-stage, later-stage, and expansion-stage financing. Lightspeed specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies while also exploring opportunities in consumer, enterprise, cleantech, and other markets. The firm is known for its strategic investments in innovative sectors, including big data, bitcoin, mobile technology, and software solutions.

Vaibhav Agrawal

Associate Partner

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Bhushan, Akshay

Partner

Chahal, Guru

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

James Ephrati

Partner

Gaurav Gupta

Partner

David Gussarsky

Partner

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Nnamdi Iregbulem

Partner

Raviraj Jain

Partner

Arif Janmohamed

Partner

Kareem, Ansaf

Partner

Harsha Kumar

Associate Partner

Pinn Lawjindakul

Partner

Will Leas

Partner

Liew, Jeremy

Partner

Hemant Mohapatra

Partner

Andrew Moley

Operating Partner and CFO

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Justin Overdorff

Partner

Nicole Quinn

General Partner

Chris Schaepe

Co-Founder

Shan Shan

Partner

Adam Smith

Partner

Taub, Lolita

Scout

Twohig, Bradley

Partner

Anoushka Vaswani

Partner

Vitkauskas, Rytis

Partner

Ye, Jerry

Partner, Data Platform

Past deals in Coworking

Multiverse

Series D in 2022
Multiverse is a tech startup that seeks to provide an alternative to university training. Multiverse ensures young people have access to the best career-focused apprenticeships on offer. Multiverse empowers and supports people to create their own realities as they journey through a fulfilling career. Multiverse is a true alternative to a one-track university route and often uninspiring corporate training.

WorkOS

Series B in 2022
WorkOS provides APIs to make applications enterprise-ready, with pre-built features and integrations required by IT admins. With WorkOS, users can start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. WorkOS was founded in 2019 by Michael Grinich and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Boundless Life

Seed Round in 2022
Boundless Life empowers families to live, learn, work, and experience beautiful destinations around the world. The company builds a collection of thoughtfully designed communities located in beautiful destinations around the world comprised of private homes, co-working spaces, a school system based on experiential learning, and locally adapted recreational hubs. It was founded in 2021 and is located in Montreal, Canada.

Handshake

Series F in 2022
Handshake is a career network designed for students and recent graduates to find job opportunities. It has a community of over 10 million users from 1,400 educational institutions, including colleges and boot camps. The platform connects these individuals with more than 750,000 employers, covering various sectors. It aims to facilitate access to career resources for both students and employers.

Kumospace

Venture Round in 2021
Kumospace is a developer of an online immersive video chat platform intended to provide remote video conferencing. Kumospace's platform facilitates users to connect people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing and provides a security of video conferencing, enabling users to host face-to-face video and connect friends across various devices and locations in a single meeting.

Multiverse

Series C in 2021
Multiverse is a tech startup that seeks to provide an alternative to university training. Multiverse ensures young people have access to the best career-focused apprenticeships on offer. Multiverse empowers and supports people to create their own realities as they journey through a fulfilling career. Multiverse is a true alternative to a one-track university route and often uninspiring corporate training.

Moveworks

Series C in 2021
Moveworks offers an AI assistant that helps employees find information, automate tasks, and improve productivity across enterprise systems. Its Reasoning Engine leverages public and proprietary LLMs to interpret complex requests, execute multi-step processes, and adapt based on past interactions. Companies like Databricks, Broadcom, Hearst, and Palo Alto Networks use Moveworks to automate support, enhance search, and streamline workflows.

Handshake

Series E in 2021
Handshake is a career network designed for students and recent graduates to find job opportunities. It has a community of over 10 million users from 1,400 educational institutions, including colleges and boot camps. The platform connects these individuals with more than 750,000 employers, covering various sectors. It aims to facilitate access to career resources for both students and employers.

Kumospace

Seed Round in 2021
Kumospace is a developer of an online immersive video chat platform intended to provide remote video conferencing. Kumospace's platform facilitates users to connect people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing and provides a security of video conferencing, enabling users to host face-to-face video and connect friends across various devices and locations in a single meeting.

WeWeb

Seed Round in 2021
At weweb.io we are doing a low-code front-end builder to help companies ship web-applications faster. In a nutshell WeWeb is a visual builder like Webflow, but with the ability to use data from your own stack in the web-product: you can use your own Authentication system, data coming from your back-end (be it through a REST API or directly from a SQL DB), you can fetch and send data to your CRM, ATS, etc.

United Dwelling

Convertible Note in 2021
United Dwelling helps property owners and developers maximize the value of their land by adding a additional dwelling units to their rental or vacant property. Building infill housing on under utilized land is the simplest, most scaleable solution to housing affordability challenges.. United Dwelling handles every aspect of the process including design, permitting, construction, finding qualified tenants, managing, and maintaining the property. The company uses data to identify potential lots that would be suitable for its units. It targets mostly low income and middle-income neighborhoods, with many of the units used for workforce housing.

Multiverse

Series B in 2021
Multiverse is a tech startup that seeks to provide an alternative to university training. Multiverse ensures young people have access to the best career-focused apprenticeships on offer. Multiverse empowers and supports people to create their own realities as they journey through a fulfilling career. Multiverse is a true alternative to a one-track university route and often uninspiring corporate training.

ShearShare

Seed Round in 2020
ShearShare is a verticalized SaaS that aggregates labor in a specialized market and provides affordable B2B tools to the self-employed stylist, starting with space to work and usage-based liability insurance. The company currently has the largest database of on-demand salon and barbershop space rentals and the most affordable leases in the market.

Handshake

Series D in 2020
Handshake is a career network designed for students and recent graduates to find job opportunities. It has a community of over 10 million users from 1,400 educational institutions, including colleges and boot camps. The platform connects these individuals with more than 750,000 employers, covering various sectors. It aims to facilitate access to career resources for both students and employers.

Lunchclub

Series A in 2020
Lunchclub is an AI superconnector that makes introductions for 1:1 lunch and coffee meetings. Vladimir Novakovski, Hayley Leibson, and Scott Wu founded it in 2018, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California.

United Dwelling

Series B in 2020
United Dwelling helps property owners and developers maximize the value of their land by adding a additional dwelling units to their rental or vacant property. Building infill housing on under utilized land is the simplest, most scaleable solution to housing affordability challenges.. United Dwelling handles every aspect of the process including design, permitting, construction, finding qualified tenants, managing, and maintaining the property. The company uses data to identify potential lots that would be suitable for its units. It targets mostly low income and middle-income neighborhoods, with many of the units used for workforce housing.

WorkOS

Seed Round in 2020
WorkOS provides APIs to make applications enterprise-ready, with pre-built features and integrations required by IT admins. With WorkOS, users can start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. WorkOS was founded in 2019 by Michael Grinich and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Moveworks

Series B in 2019
Moveworks offers an AI assistant that helps employees find information, automate tasks, and improve productivity across enterprise systems. Its Reasoning Engine leverages public and proprietary LLMs to interpret complex requests, execute multi-step processes, and adapt based on past interactions. Companies like Databricks, Broadcom, Hearst, and Palo Alto Networks use Moveworks to automate support, enhance search, and streamline workflows.

Rukita

Seed Round in 2019
Rukita is a proptech company that redefines urban living. As a leading hospitality brand and asset manager, we aim to make quality living accessible by providing lifestyle residences for each phase of life, while empowering property owners to generate wealth from their assets.

Terminal

Series B in 2019
Terminal is a talent solutions company that specializes in building remote global tech teams. The company handles recruitment, onboarding, and management of engineering teams to help businesses scale efficiently. Terminal provides global talent acquisition, market insights, operational support, and a connected tech community.

AllWork

Seed Round in 2019
AllWork is a software-enabled payments platform for freelancers and the gig economy. It assists companies to simplify how they onboard, manage, and pay all of their freelancers, contractors, consultants, and flexible workers across their entire organization.

Exly

Seed Round in 2019
Exlyapp is a platform for meeting new people at home-hosted social events in India. The company enables people to discover house parties or host it, making money for dinner parties, brunches, or evening gatherings. MyScoot uses a 5-step verification process to screen users and help ensure a safe environment. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Delhi, India.

Multiverse

Series A in 2019
Multiverse is a tech startup that seeks to provide an alternative to university training. Multiverse ensures young people have access to the best career-focused apprenticeships on offer. Multiverse empowers and supports people to create their own realities as they journey through a fulfilling career. Multiverse is a true alternative to a one-track university route and often uninspiring corporate training.

Moveworks

Series A in 2019
Moveworks offers an AI assistant that helps employees find information, automate tasks, and improve productivity across enterprise systems. Its Reasoning Engine leverages public and proprietary LLMs to interpret complex requests, execute multi-step processes, and adapt based on past interactions. Companies like Databricks, Broadcom, Hearst, and Palo Alto Networks use Moveworks to automate support, enhance search, and streamline workflows.

Alpaca

Venture Round in 2018
Alpaca is a tech start-up that helps both renters and landlords throughout the tedious journey of renting apartments. Its team has helped over 4 million roommates, renters, and landlords through the process of finding a home. Alpaca’s AI manages the largest network of housing Facebook groups in the world, active in over 200 cities. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Handshake

Series C in 2018
Handshake is a career network designed for students and recent graduates to find job opportunities. It has a community of over 10 million users from 1,400 educational institutions, including colleges and boot camps. The platform connects these individuals with more than 750,000 employers, covering various sectors. It aims to facilitate access to career resources for both students and employers.

AWA Studios

Venture Round in 2018
AWA Studios is a creative business that offers deals for creators and purchasing terms for comic retailers. The company gives creators the opportunity and incentives to work on two stories; one that the creator owns and one that AWA owns. This quid pro quo deal is a fair deal in the industry. In the case of creator-owned stories, the artists and writers own the intellectual property rights in their work and receive generous per-page payment. This gives creators the opportunity to have a stake in their work, as well as the means to take creative risks. Creators who contribute to AWA-owned stories receive publishing and licensing royalty payments for their individual series, participation in a common royalty pool, and an option to purchase shares of AWA common stock.

Multiverse

Seed Round in 2018
Multiverse is a tech startup that seeks to provide an alternative to university training. Multiverse ensures young people have access to the best career-focused apprenticeships on offer. Multiverse empowers and supports people to create their own realities as they journey through a fulfilling career. Multiverse is a true alternative to a one-track university route and often uninspiring corporate training.

Strangeworks

Seed Round in 2018
Strangeworks, Inc. is a quantum computing software company based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2017. It develops a platform that simplifies access to quantum computing for various users, including developers, researchers, and organizations. The Strangeworks QC™ platform serves as a central hub for integrating multiple quantum hardware and software providers, allowing users to apply quantum computing solutions to their specific challenges and research needs. The company offers a suite of developer tools and a systems management platform, enabling users to explore, experiment, and collaborate on quantum algorithms and applications. Strangeworks aims to make quantum computing more accessible and to mitigate issues related to vendor lock-in and architectural uncertainties in the field.

Terminal

Series A in 2018
Terminal is a talent solutions company that specializes in building remote global tech teams. The company handles recruitment, onboarding, and management of engineering teams to help businesses scale efficiently. Terminal provides global talent acquisition, market insights, operational support, and a connected tech community.

Highfive

Series C in 2018
Highfive is a developer of video and web conferencing software and hardware alternatives used to deliver high-fidelity, crystal-clear audio, and high definition 4K camera connections. Its platform combined with their Hardware-as-a-Service model permits companies to have high-quality conference alternatives with low upfront costs that enable clients to improve the ease and quality of business communications and collaboration.

HomeShare

Seed Round in 2018
HomeShare (www.homeshare.com) is a co-living marketplace that enables affordable city living so that individuals can thrive together. The company matches housemates based on personality to ensure compatibility and peace of mind. Headquartered in San Francisco, HomeShare is active in 5 markets: San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Seattle and Los Angeles. HomeShare’s mission is to unlock cities by providing attractive yet affordable housing.

Handshake

Series B in 2016
Handshake is a career network designed for students and recent graduates to find job opportunities. It has a community of over 10 million users from 1,400 educational institutions, including colleges and boot camps. The platform connects these individuals with more than 750,000 employers, covering various sectors. It aims to facilitate access to career resources for both students and employers.

Handshake

Series A in 2016
Handshake is a career network designed for students and recent graduates to find job opportunities. It has a community of over 10 million users from 1,400 educational institutions, including colleges and boot camps. The platform connects these individuals with more than 750,000 employers, covering various sectors. It aims to facilitate access to career resources for both students and employers.

CODING

Series B in 2015
Coding.net is a cloud-based platform for software development collaboration, which has over 300,000 registered developers and more than 500,000 active projects. Adhering to the mission of “making development easier”, we integrate code development, project management, WebIDE and other development tools into the browser to simplify the deployment process, reduce the cost of developing and deploying, improve the efficiency of team collaboration and boost the productivity of software development, and therefore to ultimately realize our vision of “Coding Anytime Anywhere”.

Handshake

Seed Round in 2015
Handshake is a career network designed for students and recent graduates to find job opportunities. It has a community of over 10 million users from 1,400 educational institutions, including colleges and boot camps. The platform connects these individuals with more than 750,000 employers, covering various sectors. It aims to facilitate access to career resources for both students and employers.

Highfive

Series B in 2015
Highfive is a developer of video and web conferencing software and hardware alternatives used to deliver high-fidelity, crystal-clear audio, and high definition 4K camera connections. Its platform combined with their Hardware-as-a-Service model permits companies to have high-quality conference alternatives with low upfront costs that enable clients to improve the ease and quality of business communications and collaboration.
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