Lightspeed Europe

Lightspeed Europe is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage and growth investments across various sectors, including consumer, health, and fintech. With its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and regional offices in Europe, Israel, India, and China, Lightspeed aims to identify and support innovative companies that can disrupt traditional markets. The firm invests in a wide range of industries, such as enterprise technology, e-commerce, software, and biotechnology, providing both equity and debt financing. Lightspeed has a particular interest in technology-led businesses, as well as opportunities in advertising, media, healthcare, education, and retail. Its investment strategy emphasizes the provision of capital along with ongoing consulting and advisory services to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses effectively.

Shaurya Aggarwal

Partner

Vaibhav Agrawal

Associate Partner

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner and Head of Gaming

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Akshay Bhushan

Venture Partner

Taggart Bonham

Partner

Ashley Brasier

Partner

Guru Chahal

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Amish Desai

Partner

Barry Eggers

Founder and Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

James Ephrati

Partner

Faraz Fatemi

Partner, Consumer

Jack Fowler

Partner

Aaron Frank

Venture Partner

Vivek Gambhir

Venture Partner

Gaurav Gupta

Partner

David Gussarsky

Partner

Lisa Han

Partner

Dat Han

Senior Associate

Rob Horton JD

COO

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Nnamdi Iregbulem

Partner

Raviraj Jain

Partner

Arif Janmohamed

Partner

Ansaf Kareem

Partner

Issac Kim

Partner

Harsha Kumar

Associate Partner

Pinn Lawjindakul

Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Jeremy Liew

Partner

Connor Love

Partner

John Luongo

Venture Partner

Natalie Luu

Partner

Naveed Matinfar

Partner

Arsham Memarzadeh

Partner

Michael Mignano

Partner, Consumer

Hemant Mohapatra

Partner

Andrew Moley

Operating Partner and CFO

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Antoine Moyroud

Partner

Eric O'Brien

Affiliated Partner

Justin Overdorff

Partner

Apoorva Pandhi

Associate

Nicole Quinn

General Partner

Adrian Radu

Partner

Alexander Schmitt

Partner

Shan Shan

Partner

Aditya Sharma

Partner, Growth Equity - India and Asia-Pacific

Justin Shen

Partner

Justin Shen

Partner

Alex Taussig

Partner

John Thompson

Venture Partner

John Thompson

Venture Partner

Anoushka Vaswani

Partner

Nathan Wu

Partner, Growth

Mark Xu

Partner

Mark Xu

Partner

Jerry Ye

Partner, Data Platform

Past deals in Data Visualization

Select Star

Series A in 2023
Select Star is an intelligent data discovery platform that focuses on improving data accessibility and understanding within organizations. It addresses common challenges faced by data scientists and business analysts, who often spend excessive time searching for the right data. The platform goes beyond a traditional data catalog by offering a user-friendly data portal that enables users to easily locate and comprehend data. Select Star's tool facilitates a clearer understanding of data, including its location, structure, and usage, thereby streamlining the data discovery process and enhancing efficiency for enterprises.

Grafana Labs

Series D in 2022
Grafana Labs is a developer of a performance monitoring platform that assists organizations in achieving their monitoring, visualization, and observability objectives. The company offers an open and composable platform centered around Grafana, an open-source software designed for effective monitoring, metric analytics, and visualization. Grafana Labs provides commercial products such as Grafana Enterprise, which caters to the needs of large organizations with additional features and support, and Grafana Cloud, a hosted solution that integrates Prometheus and Graphite for metrics alongside Loki for log management. Additionally, the Grafana Accelerator Program fosters early-stage companies and projects within the Grafana ecosystem by offering resources such as free cloud accounts, subscriptions, cash grants, and access to core developers, thereby promoting innovation and collaboration in the field.

Ponder

Seed Round in 2022
Ponder Data Inc. specializes in providing enterprise-ready tools that facilitate rapid and flexible experimentation with data at scale. The company's platform is designed to enhance productivity for data teams by enabling them to obtain insights more swiftly, utilizing familiar tools. Ponder's technology focuses on maintaining scalable machine learning and analytics capabilities, allowing users to handle workloads of varying sizes while preserving the user-friendly nature of the pandas API. This approach empowers organizations to perform data science tasks efficiently and effectively, making it easier for teams to derive valuable insights from their data.

Voltron Data

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of an open-source platform designed to build bridges across the data analytics ecosystem. The company's platform connects data, hardware, and developers and builds multi-language across platform tools for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing, enabling developers, data scientists, and data engineers to improve the toolchains and interoperability standards for data access, preparation, cleaning, analytics, and feature engineering.

Voltron Data

Series A in 2022
Developer of an open-source platform designed to build bridges across the data analytics ecosystem. The company's platform connects data, hardware, and developers and builds multi-language across platform tools for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing, enabling developers, data scientists, and data engineers to improve the toolchains and interoperability standards for data access, preparation, cleaning, analytics, and feature engineering.

ClickHouse

Series B in 2021
ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented online analytical processing (OLAP) database management system that enables users to generate real-time analytical reports using SQL queries. The system is designed for high-performance query processing, allowing enterprises to handle large volumes of data efficiently. By reducing storage requirements and processing significant amounts of data within short timeframes, ClickHouse offers a secure, reliable, and scalable solution for data management. This capability is particularly beneficial for organizations seeking to optimize their data analytics and streamline data processing workflows.

Materialize

Series C in 2021
Materialize Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a streaming SQL database designed to facilitate the handling of streaming data. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, it offers a platform that enables users to create materialized views over real-time data, thereby enhancing the development of internal tools, dashboards, and customer-facing applications. Materialize empowers developers to pose complex questions regarding their data and receive low-latency responses, even as the data evolves. The platform continuously updates query results as new information becomes available, simplifying the process of building intelligent applications with standard technology.

Acceldata

Series B in 2021
Acceldata, Inc. develops an enterprise data observability platform designed for analytics and artificial intelligence systems. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Jose, California; Bengaluru, India; and Berlin, Germany, the company offers a comprehensive suite of services that includes data warehousing, data security, data preparation, accuracy forecasting, and data acquisition. Acceldata's platform enables end-to-end visibility and monitoring across multi-technology enterprise data pipelines, allowing users to track changes in data and processes while providing actionable insights powered by AI and machine learning. This functionality simplifies the understanding of data management for data professionals, operations teams, and executives alike.

Grafana Labs

Series C in 2021
Grafana Labs is a developer of a performance monitoring platform that assists organizations in achieving their monitoring, visualization, and observability objectives. The company offers an open and composable platform centered around Grafana, an open-source software designed for effective monitoring, metric analytics, and visualization. Grafana Labs provides commercial products such as Grafana Enterprise, which caters to the needs of large organizations with additional features and support, and Grafana Cloud, a hosted solution that integrates Prometheus and Graphite for metrics alongside Loki for log management. Additionally, the Grafana Accelerator Program fosters early-stage companies and projects within the Grafana ecosystem by offering resources such as free cloud accounts, subscriptions, cash grants, and access to core developers, thereby promoting innovation and collaboration in the field.

Materialize

Series B in 2020
Materialize Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a streaming SQL database designed to facilitate the handling of streaming data. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, it offers a platform that enables users to create materialized views over real-time data, thereby enhancing the development of internal tools, dashboards, and customer-facing applications. Materialize empowers developers to pose complex questions regarding their data and receive low-latency responses, even as the data evolves. The platform continuously updates query results as new information becomes available, simplifying the process of building intelligent applications with standard technology.

DataFleets

Seed Round in 2020
DataFleets Ltd. designs and develops data analytics software that transforms, analyze, and visualize data. It owns and operates a platform for federated intelligence that helps businesses merge and analyze data on-prem, in the cloud, at the edge. Its technology is used in location agnostic, streamline security, and forward collaboration. Also, it provides a web-based notebook editor for data to test hypotheses. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Acceldata

Series A in 2020
Acceldata, Inc. develops an enterprise data observability platform designed for analytics and artificial intelligence systems. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Jose, California; Bengaluru, India; and Berlin, Germany, the company offers a comprehensive suite of services that includes data warehousing, data security, data preparation, accuracy forecasting, and data acquisition. Acceldata's platform enables end-to-end visibility and monitoring across multi-technology enterprise data pipelines, allowing users to track changes in data and processes while providing actionable insights powered by AI and machine learning. This functionality simplifies the understanding of data management for data professionals, operations teams, and executives alike.

Varada

Series A in 2020
Varada Ltd. is a Tel Aviv-based company that specializes in cloud-based data warehousing as a service (DWaaS) designed for big data analytics. Established in 2016, Varada's platform enables data architects to enhance and optimize workloads through dynamic analysis and adaptive indexing, providing significant control over performance and costs. Its solution is tailored to support a wide range of analytical use cases at scale, positioning it as a competitor to major cloud platforms in the data warehousing space. Varada's technology leverages advanced system architecture and cost-effective pricing, incorporating flash and NVMe technologies, to facilitate interactive analytics on a petabyte scale, making it accessible for any SQL consumer to query various data sources efficiently.

Grafana Labs

Series B in 2020
Grafana Labs is a developer of a performance monitoring platform that assists organizations in achieving their monitoring, visualization, and observability objectives. The company offers an open and composable platform centered around Grafana, an open-source software designed for effective monitoring, metric analytics, and visualization. Grafana Labs provides commercial products such as Grafana Enterprise, which caters to the needs of large organizations with additional features and support, and Grafana Cloud, a hosted solution that integrates Prometheus and Graphite for metrics alongside Loki for log management. Additionally, the Grafana Accelerator Program fosters early-stage companies and projects within the Grafana ecosystem by offering resources such as free cloud accounts, subscriptions, cash grants, and access to core developers, thereby promoting innovation and collaboration in the field.

Grafana Labs

Series A in 2019
Grafana Labs is a developer of a performance monitoring platform that assists organizations in achieving their monitoring, visualization, and observability objectives. The company offers an open and composable platform centered around Grafana, an open-source software designed for effective monitoring, metric analytics, and visualization. Grafana Labs provides commercial products such as Grafana Enterprise, which caters to the needs of large organizations with additional features and support, and Grafana Cloud, a hosted solution that integrates Prometheus and Graphite for metrics alongside Loki for log management. Additionally, the Grafana Accelerator Program fosters early-stage companies and projects within the Grafana ecosystem by offering resources such as free cloud accounts, subscriptions, cash grants, and access to core developers, thereby promoting innovation and collaboration in the field.

Invideo

Seed Round in 2019
InVideo is a video creation platform that enables users to produce professional-quality videos using a range of premium templates, images, and music. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, the platform caters to publishers, media companies, and brands, enhancing audience engagement through video content. InVideo allows users to create videos from scratch, convert static content into dynamic video formats, and incorporate automated voiceovers in various languages. The platform is designed to significantly reduce the time required to create high-quality videos by over 90%, allowing creators to prioritize their message and impact. With a user base exceeding 800,000 from more than 150 countries, InVideo supports video creation in over 75 languages, making it accessible to a diverse audience.

Materialize

Series A in 2019
Materialize Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a streaming SQL database designed to facilitate the handling of streaming data. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, it offers a platform that enables users to create materialized views over real-time data, thereby enhancing the development of internal tools, dashboards, and customer-facing applications. Materialize empowers developers to pose complex questions regarding their data and receive low-latency responses, even as the data evolves. The platform continuously updates query results as new information becomes available, simplifying the process of building intelligent applications with standard technology.

Varada

Seed Round in 2019
Varada Ltd. is a Tel Aviv-based company that specializes in cloud-based data warehousing as a service (DWaaS) designed for big data analytics. Established in 2016, Varada's platform enables data architects to enhance and optimize workloads through dynamic analysis and adaptive indexing, providing significant control over performance and costs. Its solution is tailored to support a wide range of analytical use cases at scale, positioning it as a competitor to major cloud platforms in the data warehousing space. Varada's technology leverages advanced system architecture and cost-effective pricing, incorporating flash and NVMe technologies, to facilitate interactive analytics on a petabyte scale, making it accessible for any SQL consumer to query various data sources efficiently.

Acceldata

Seed Round in 2018
Acceldata, Inc. develops an enterprise data observability platform designed for analytics and artificial intelligence systems. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Jose, California; Bengaluru, India; and Berlin, Germany, the company offers a comprehensive suite of services that includes data warehousing, data security, data preparation, accuracy forecasting, and data acquisition. Acceldata's platform enables end-to-end visibility and monitoring across multi-technology enterprise data pipelines, allowing users to track changes in data and processes while providing actionable insights powered by AI and machine learning. This functionality simplifies the understanding of data management for data professionals, operations teams, and executives alike.

Datorama

Series C in 2016
Datorama’s marketing intelligence platform transforms the way marketers optimize their marketing performance, business impact, and customer loyalty. With Datorama, customers can automatically connect all their disparate marketing tools and reports in one centralized place; access and act on the right cross-channel KPIs, dashboards, reports, and AI-powered insights; and optimize and report on every investment, performance, and outcome across the customer journey. Datorama powers marketing intelligence for thousands of brands, agencies and publishers globally including IBM, Nike, Ticketmaster, Viacom, and Neo@Ogilvy, helping them make smarter marketing decisions everyday. Datorama has a global presence with 16 offices worldwide and was recently named a Gartner Cool Vendor and ranks #35 on the Deloitte Fast 500 list.

EdgeSpring

Series A in 2013
EdgeSpring specializes in providing visual analytics and business intelligence solutions that facilitate data-driven decision-making for businesses. By offering a streamlined approach to data analysis, EdgeSpring aims to empower organizations to derive insights quickly and efficiently. Their platform is designed to simplify the process of interpreting complex data sets, enabling users to make informed decisions that enhance business performance.

EdgeSpring

Seed Round in 2010
EdgeSpring specializes in providing visual analytics and business intelligence solutions that facilitate data-driven decision-making for businesses. By offering a streamlined approach to data analysis, EdgeSpring aims to empower organizations to derive insights quickly and efficiently. Their platform is designed to simplify the process of interpreting complex data sets, enabling users to make informed decisions that enhance business performance.

Celequest

Series B in 2004
Celequest Corporation provides operational business intelligence solutions to enterprises. It provides LAVA, a business intelligence solution that enables companies to provide up-to-the-time-minute business information to operational workers and empowers decision makers to spot emerging trends. The company provides solutions in the areas of financial performance management, risk mitigation, manufacturing operations, demand visibility, inventory monitoring, sales analysis, margin optimization, and logistics monitoring. It offers its solution as an appliance and as software-as-a-service. The company was founded in 2002 as Viewceler Corp. and changed its name to Celequest Corporation in June 2003. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California. Celequest Corporation operates as a subsidiary of International Business Machines Corp.

Viewceler

Series A in 2002
Viewceler is a business-software maker focused on improving productivity and responsiveness.

Celequest

Series A in 2002
Celequest Corporation provides operational business intelligence solutions to enterprises. It provides LAVA, a business intelligence solution that enables companies to provide up-to-the-time-minute business information to operational workers and empowers decision makers to spot emerging trends. The company provides solutions in the areas of financial performance management, risk mitigation, manufacturing operations, demand visibility, inventory monitoring, sales analysis, margin optimization, and logistics monitoring. It offers its solution as an appliance and as software-as-a-service. The company was founded in 2002 as Viewceler Corp. and changed its name to Celequest Corporation in June 2003. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California. Celequest Corporation operates as a subsidiary of International Business Machines Corp.
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