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

Sebastian Duesterhoeft

Partner

Barry Eggers

Co-Founder and Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

James Ephrati

Partner

Jack Fowler

Partner

Aaron Frank

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

Francis Kao

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

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 Database

Tessell

Series B in 2025
Tessell, founded in 2021 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with a significant presence in Bangalore, is a rapidly growing Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) company. It offers a comprehensive data infrastructure and management platform designed for both cloud-born and cloud-defining enterprises. Tessell provides a fully managed service supporting various data technologies, including Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server, across major cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. The company has secured Series A funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners to enhance its global reach and deliver a user-friendly experience for enterprise-level services. Tessell's innovative technology features a zero-data loss Availability Machine that safeguards data, ensures regional availability, and offers time-travel capabilities for data cloning. The platform emphasizes a seamless data consumption experience for developers and data owners while maintaining robust enterprise-grade governance and deployment models.

QueryPal

Seed Round in 2022
QueryPal is an innovative company that enhances enterprise customer support by utilizing historical support tickets to create an intelligent deflection system capable of managing most incoming inquiries via chat and email without human intervention. Unlike traditional AI chatbots that only retrieve information from documentation, QueryPal's Agentic Support AI constructs a comprehensive knowledge graph from past support data, facilitating tier 1-3 support capabilities, including complex API interactions with record systems. Its visual analytics dashboard provides customer service leaders with critical insights into support operations, demonstrating significant return on investment shortly after implementation. Trusted by notable organizations, QueryPal aims to transform the $300 billion global customer support market by converting cost centers into strategic assets without increasing workforce size. The company has received recognition in various publications, highlighting its potential to disrupt the industry.

Tessell

Series A in 2022
Tessell, founded in 2021 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with a significant presence in Bangalore, is a rapidly growing Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) company. It offers a comprehensive data infrastructure and management platform designed for both cloud-born and cloud-defining enterprises. Tessell provides a fully managed service supporting various data technologies, including Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server, across major cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. The company has secured Series A funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners to enhance its global reach and deliver a user-friendly experience for enterprise-level services. Tessell's innovative technology features a zero-data loss Availability Machine that safeguards data, ensures regional availability, and offers time-travel capabilities for data cloning. The platform emphasizes a seamless data consumption experience for developers and data owners while maintaining robust enterprise-grade governance and deployment models.

Supabase

Series B in 2022
Supabase Pte. Ltd. is a company that provides an open-source alternative to Firebase, designed to enhance PostgreSQL databases with real-time and RESTful APIs without requiring extensive coding. Founded in 2020 and based in Singapore, Supabase offers a suite of tools to assist developers, including a Postgres database with self-documenting APIs, user authentication, instant APIs, Edge Functions, real-time subscriptions, and storage solutions. The platform enables users to manage database changes, perform queries with filtering and pagination, and handle user permissions through an intuitive interface. By focusing on simplifying database management and enhancing scalability, Supabase allows developers to concentrate on building their core products efficiently.

Yugabyte

Series C in 2021
Yugabyte, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source cloud-native database software designed for internet-scale applications. The company's flagship product, YugabyteDB, is a high-performance distributed SQL database that supports global applications, accommodating both scale-out relational database management system (RDBMS) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads. YugabyteDB features a combination of advanced capabilities, including automatic sharding, distributed consensus replication, and multi-shard ACID transactions, drawing inspiration from Google's Spanner. Yugabyte offers various deployment options, including Yugabyte Platform, a self-managed database-as-a-service, and Yugabyte Cloud, a fully-managed service available on major cloud platforms. The company also provides two editions of its software: the open-source YugaByte Community Edition for individual users and the YugaByte Enterprise Edition for corporate clients. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Yugabyte aims to deliver a resilient and scalable database solution for modern applications.

ClickHouse

Series B in 2021
ClickHouse is an open-source database management system specializing in online analytical processing (OLAP). It uniquely stores data column-wise, reducing storage needs and enhancing query performance through vectorized processing. This design enables real-time analytics by efficiently handling large datasets, offering enterprises a reliable, scalable solution for data processing.

Materialize

Series C in 2021
Materialize Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a streaming SQL database platform designed to facilitate the management and analysis of streaming data. Founded in 2019 and based in New York, the platform enables users to create materialized views that provide low-latency results, even as the underlying data changes. This functionality allows developers and data scientists to easily ask complex questions, build intelligent applications, and develop internal tools and interactive dashboards. Materialize's approach focuses on simplifying the process of working with real-time data, ensuring that query results are continuously updated as new information becomes available.

Yugabyte

Series B in 2021
Yugabyte, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source cloud-native database software designed for internet-scale applications. The company's flagship product, YugabyteDB, is a high-performance distributed SQL database that supports global applications, accommodating both scale-out relational database management system (RDBMS) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads. YugabyteDB features a combination of advanced capabilities, including automatic sharding, distributed consensus replication, and multi-shard ACID transactions, drawing inspiration from Google's Spanner. Yugabyte offers various deployment options, including Yugabyte Platform, a self-managed database-as-a-service, and Yugabyte Cloud, a fully-managed service available on major cloud platforms. The company also provides two editions of its software: the open-source YugaByte Community Edition for individual users and the YugaByte Enterprise Edition for corporate clients. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Yugabyte aims to deliver a resilient and scalable database solution for modern applications.

Materialize

Series B in 2020
Materialize Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a streaming SQL database platform designed to facilitate the management and analysis of streaming data. Founded in 2019 and based in New York, the platform enables users to create materialized views that provide low-latency results, even as the underlying data changes. This functionality allows developers and data scientists to easily ask complex questions, build intelligent applications, and develop internal tools and interactive dashboards. Materialize's approach focuses on simplifying the process of working with real-time data, ensuring that query results are continuously updated as new information becomes available.

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.

Yugabyte

Series B in 2020
Yugabyte, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source cloud-native database software designed for internet-scale applications. The company's flagship product, YugabyteDB, is a high-performance distributed SQL database that supports global applications, accommodating both scale-out relational database management system (RDBMS) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads. YugabyteDB features a combination of advanced capabilities, including automatic sharding, distributed consensus replication, and multi-shard ACID transactions, drawing inspiration from Google's Spanner. Yugabyte offers various deployment options, including Yugabyte Platform, a self-managed database-as-a-service, and Yugabyte Cloud, a fully-managed service available on major cloud platforms. The company also provides two editions of its software: the open-source YugaByte Community Edition for individual users and the YugaByte Enterprise Edition for corporate clients. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Yugabyte aims to deliver a resilient and scalable database solution for modern applications.

M3O

Seed Round in 2019
M3O is a cloud-native development platform that facilitates the creation, sharing, and collaboration on microservices for developers. Founded in 1979 and based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the company aims to streamline the development process, allowing developers to concentrate on product innovation rather than infrastructure concerns. M3O's platform provides tools that simplify the complexities associated with microservices architecture, enabling teams to enhance their productivity and efficiency in building applications.

Materialize

Series A in 2019
Materialize Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a streaming SQL database platform designed to facilitate the management and analysis of streaming data. Founded in 2019 and based in New York, the platform enables users to create materialized views that provide low-latency results, even as the underlying data changes. This functionality allows developers and data scientists to easily ask complex questions, build intelligent applications, and develop internal tools and interactive dashboards. Materialize's approach focuses on simplifying the process of working with real-time data, ensuring that query results are continuously updated as new information becomes available.

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.

Rubrik

Series E in 2019
Rubrik provides data management solutions, focusing on backup and recovery services for businesses of varying sizes. Their platform combines enterprise data management with web-scale IT, allowing companies to swiftly manage and protect their data across both private and public clouds. Rubrik's offerings aim to enhance cyber resilience, ensuring businesses can confidently embrace digital transformation while safeguarding their data.

Yugabyte

Series A in 2018
Yugabyte, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source cloud-native database software designed for internet-scale applications. The company's flagship product, YugabyteDB, is a high-performance distributed SQL database that supports global applications, accommodating both scale-out relational database management system (RDBMS) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads. YugabyteDB features a combination of advanced capabilities, including automatic sharding, distributed consensus replication, and multi-shard ACID transactions, drawing inspiration from Google's Spanner. Yugabyte offers various deployment options, including Yugabyte Platform, a self-managed database-as-a-service, and Yugabyte Cloud, a fully-managed service available on major cloud platforms. The company also provides two editions of its software: the open-source YugaByte Community Edition for individual users and the YugaByte Enterprise Edition for corporate clients. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Yugabyte aims to deliver a resilient and scalable database solution for modern applications.

Rubrik

Series D in 2017
Rubrik provides data management solutions, focusing on backup and recovery services for businesses of varying sizes. Their platform combines enterprise data management with web-scale IT, allowing companies to swiftly manage and protect their data across both private and public clouds. Rubrik's offerings aim to enhance cyber resilience, ensuring businesses can confidently embrace digital transformation while safeguarding their data.

Rubrik

Series C in 2016
Rubrik provides data management solutions, focusing on backup and recovery services for businesses of varying sizes. Their platform combines enterprise data management with web-scale IT, allowing companies to swiftly manage and protect their data across both private and public clouds. Rubrik's offerings aim to enhance cyber resilience, ensuring businesses can confidently embrace digital transformation while safeguarding their data.

Yugabyte

Series A in 2016
Yugabyte, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source cloud-native database software designed for internet-scale applications. The company's flagship product, YugabyteDB, is a high-performance distributed SQL database that supports global applications, accommodating both scale-out relational database management system (RDBMS) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads. YugabyteDB features a combination of advanced capabilities, including automatic sharding, distributed consensus replication, and multi-shard ACID transactions, drawing inspiration from Google's Spanner. Yugabyte offers various deployment options, including Yugabyte Platform, a self-managed database-as-a-service, and Yugabyte Cloud, a fully-managed service available on major cloud platforms. The company also provides two editions of its software: the open-source YugaByte Community Edition for individual users and the YugaByte Enterprise Edition for corporate clients. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Yugabyte aims to deliver a resilient and scalable database solution for modern applications.

Delphix

Series D in 2015
Delphix is a technology company that offers an intelligent data platform designed to facilitate digital transformation for enterprises globally. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, Delphix specializes in test data management software that supports a wide range of systems, including mainframes, Oracle databases, ERP applications, and Kubernetes containers. Its DataOps platform enables businesses to accelerate cloud migrations, custom development, and ERP rollouts by providing agile data management capabilities. By eliminating redundant infrastructure and streamlining processes, Delphix helps organizations in sectors such as financial services, telecommunications, consumer packaged goods, e-commerce, and manufacturing to effectively visualize and deliver data across major databases and data warehouses.

Rubrik

Series B in 2015
Rubrik provides data management solutions, focusing on backup and recovery services for businesses of varying sizes. Their platform combines enterprise data management with web-scale IT, allowing companies to swiftly manage and protect their data across both private and public clouds. Rubrik's offerings aim to enhance cyber resilience, ensuring businesses can confidently embrace digital transformation while safeguarding their data.

Rubrik

Series A in 2015
Rubrik provides data management solutions, focusing on backup and recovery services for businesses of varying sizes. Their platform combines enterprise data management with web-scale IT, allowing companies to swiftly manage and protect their data across both private and public clouds. Rubrik's offerings aim to enhance cyber resilience, ensuring businesses can confidently embrace digital transformation while safeguarding their data.

DataStax

Series E in 2014
DataStax, Inc. is a provider of database software specifically designed for cloud applications, catering to Fortune 100 companies both in the United States and internationally. The company offers a range of products including DataStax Enterprise, which is based on Apache Cassandra and supports online applications requiring high performance and reliability. Additionally, DataStax provides tools such as OpsCenter for database management and monitoring, K8ssandra for deploying Cassandra on Kubernetes, and Astra, a database-as-a-service that significantly reduces deployment time. With a focus on real-time processing, DataStax also enables the building of generative AI applications through its vector database, which supports developers with various integration capabilities. The company's services are complemented by training, certification, support, and consulting. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, DataStax has expanded its presence with offices in multiple global locations including the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Germany, Australia, and Ireland.

Primary Data

Series B in 2014
Primary Data, founded in 2013 and based in Sandy, Utah, specializes in intelligence and automation software for enterprise data management, facilitating seamless integration between on-premises IT infrastructure and cloud environments. The company's flagship platform, DataSphere, utilizes metadata management and machine learning to optimize data movement within a global namespace. It enables organizations managing large data volumes to efficiently handle billions of files, automate data migration processes, and improve cloud integration while enhancing network-attached storage (NAS) performance. By ensuring that the right data is accessible to the right applications at the right time, Primary Data helps enterprises maximize the value of their infrastructure investments.

Primary Data

Series B in 2013
Primary Data, founded in 2013 and based in Sandy, Utah, specializes in intelligence and automation software for enterprise data management, facilitating seamless integration between on-premises IT infrastructure and cloud environments. The company's flagship platform, DataSphere, utilizes metadata management and machine learning to optimize data movement within a global namespace. It enables organizations managing large data volumes to efficiently handle billions of files, automate data migration processes, and improve cloud integration while enhancing network-attached storage (NAS) performance. By ensuring that the right data is accessible to the right applications at the right time, Primary Data helps enterprises maximize the value of their infrastructure investments.

DataStax

Series D in 2013
DataStax, Inc. is a provider of database software specifically designed for cloud applications, catering to Fortune 100 companies both in the United States and internationally. The company offers a range of products including DataStax Enterprise, which is based on Apache Cassandra and supports online applications requiring high performance and reliability. Additionally, DataStax provides tools such as OpsCenter for database management and monitoring, K8ssandra for deploying Cassandra on Kubernetes, and Astra, a database-as-a-service that significantly reduces deployment time. With a focus on real-time processing, DataStax also enables the building of generative AI applications through its vector database, which supports developers with various integration capabilities. The company's services are complemented by training, certification, support, and consulting. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, DataStax has expanded its presence with offices in multiple global locations including the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Germany, Australia, and Ireland.

DataStax

Series C in 2012
DataStax, Inc. is a provider of database software specifically designed for cloud applications, catering to Fortune 100 companies both in the United States and internationally. The company offers a range of products including DataStax Enterprise, which is based on Apache Cassandra and supports online applications requiring high performance and reliability. Additionally, DataStax provides tools such as OpsCenter for database management and monitoring, K8ssandra for deploying Cassandra on Kubernetes, and Astra, a database-as-a-service that significantly reduces deployment time. With a focus on real-time processing, DataStax also enables the building of generative AI applications through its vector database, which supports developers with various integration capabilities. The company's services are complemented by training, certification, support, and consulting. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, DataStax has expanded its presence with offices in multiple global locations including the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Germany, Australia, and Ireland.

Delphix

Series C in 2012
Delphix is a technology company that offers an intelligent data platform designed to facilitate digital transformation for enterprises globally. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, Delphix specializes in test data management software that supports a wide range of systems, including mainframes, Oracle databases, ERP applications, and Kubernetes containers. Its DataOps platform enables businesses to accelerate cloud migrations, custom development, and ERP rollouts by providing agile data management capabilities. By eliminating redundant infrastructure and streamlining processes, Delphix helps organizations in sectors such as financial services, telecommunications, consumer packaged goods, e-commerce, and manufacturing to effectively visualize and deliver data across major databases and data warehouses.

DataStax

Series B in 2011
DataStax, Inc. is a provider of database software specifically designed for cloud applications, catering to Fortune 100 companies both in the United States and internationally. The company offers a range of products including DataStax Enterprise, which is based on Apache Cassandra and supports online applications requiring high performance and reliability. Additionally, DataStax provides tools such as OpsCenter for database management and monitoring, K8ssandra for deploying Cassandra on Kubernetes, and Astra, a database-as-a-service that significantly reduces deployment time. With a focus on real-time processing, DataStax also enables the building of generative AI applications through its vector database, which supports developers with various integration capabilities. The company's services are complemented by training, certification, support, and consulting. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, DataStax has expanded its presence with offices in multiple global locations including the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Germany, Australia, and Ireland.

DataStax

Series A in 2010
DataStax, Inc. is a provider of database software specifically designed for cloud applications, catering to Fortune 100 companies both in the United States and internationally. The company offers a range of products including DataStax Enterprise, which is based on Apache Cassandra and supports online applications requiring high performance and reliability. Additionally, DataStax provides tools such as OpsCenter for database management and monitoring, K8ssandra for deploying Cassandra on Kubernetes, and Astra, a database-as-a-service that significantly reduces deployment time. With a focus on real-time processing, DataStax also enables the building of generative AI applications through its vector database, which supports developers with various integration capabilities. The company's services are complemented by training, certification, support, and consulting. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, DataStax has expanded its presence with offices in multiple global locations including the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Germany, Australia, and Ireland.

Delphix

Series B in 2010
Delphix is a technology company that offers an intelligent data platform designed to facilitate digital transformation for enterprises globally. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, Delphix specializes in test data management software that supports a wide range of systems, including mainframes, Oracle databases, ERP applications, and Kubernetes containers. Its DataOps platform enables businesses to accelerate cloud migrations, custom development, and ERP rollouts by providing agile data management capabilities. By eliminating redundant infrastructure and streamlining processes, Delphix helps organizations in sectors such as financial services, telecommunications, consumer packaged goods, e-commerce, and manufacturing to effectively visualize and deliver data across major databases and data warehouses.

Delphix

Series A in 2009
Delphix is a technology company that offers an intelligent data platform designed to facilitate digital transformation for enterprises globally. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, Delphix specializes in test data management software that supports a wide range of systems, including mainframes, Oracle databases, ERP applications, and Kubernetes containers. Its DataOps platform enables businesses to accelerate cloud migrations, custom development, and ERP rollouts by providing agile data management capabilities. By eliminating redundant infrastructure and streamlining processes, Delphix helps organizations in sectors such as financial services, telecommunications, consumer packaged goods, e-commerce, and manufacturing to effectively visualize and deliver data across major databases and data warehouses.

ClickHouse

ClickHouse is an open-source database management system specializing in online analytical processing (OLAP). It uniquely stores data column-wise, reducing storage needs and enhancing query performance through vectorized processing. This design enables real-time analytics by efficiently handling large datasets, offering enterprises a reliable, scalable solution for data processing.
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