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 Dating

Schmooze

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a meme-based dating application designed to help meet people with similar humor. The company's application offers matchmaking services and uses tagging and machine learning combined with the bios that users create for themselves and their preferred topics and matches people based on their affinity for memes, enabling users to find their preferred match.

Zola

Series D in 2018
Zola, Inc. is a wedding company that provides a comprehensive platform for wedding planning and registry services. Founded in 2013 and based in New York, the company offers a suite of tools under the Zola Weddings brand, including customizable wedding websites, a versatile registry featuring gifts and experiences, a personalized checklist for managing tasks and deadlines, and a guest list management tool that aids in collecting addresses, tracking RSVPs, and facilitating communication with guests. Zola aims to simplify the wedding planning process by combining modern technology with attentive customer service, helping couples navigate from engagement to their wedding day and into their new lives together.

Zola

Series D in 2018
Zola, Inc. is a wedding company that provides a comprehensive platform for wedding planning and registry services. Founded in 2013 and based in New York, the company offers a suite of tools under the Zola Weddings brand, including customizable wedding websites, a versatile registry featuring gifts and experiences, a personalized checklist for managing tasks and deadlines, and a guest list management tool that aids in collecting addresses, tracking RSVPs, and facilitating communication with guests. Zola aims to simplify the wedding planning process by combining modern technology with attentive customer service, helping couples navigate from engagement to their wedding day and into their new lives together.

Zola

Series C in 2016
Zola, Inc. is a wedding company that provides a comprehensive platform for wedding planning and registry services. Founded in 2013 and based in New York, the company offers a suite of tools under the Zola Weddings brand, including customizable wedding websites, a versatile registry featuring gifts and experiences, a personalized checklist for managing tasks and deadlines, and a guest list management tool that aids in collecting addresses, tracking RSVPs, and facilitating communication with guests. Zola aims to simplify the wedding planning process by combining modern technology with attentive customer service, helping couples navigate from engagement to their wedding day and into their new lives together.

Mend

Venture Round in 2015
Mend specializes in the fields of mobile apps, relationships, self-care, breakups, and training. Elle Huerta, the founder of Mend, built and launched Mend in 2016 after developing deep expertise in the love/relationships vertical as the founder of Letsmend.

Vee

Venture Round in 2014
Vee is Pinterest for People Discovery, enabling meaningful new connections for millenials, who want to meet interesting and relevant people. People who are Real ------------------------------- Interact with real people and not their exaggerated avatars. Rest assured that creeps and spam won't bother you here. All profiles are crazily verified with humans and machines working together, day and night. Conversations that open up a world of possibilities -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use Conversations to break the ice, get some advice or simply connect with interesting people. Start a quick conversation or join one anywhere anytime. Tribes that welcome you as you are ---------------------------------------------------- Belongingness' is an awesome feeling. Swear your allegiance to existing tribes or start one of your own to meet those who are also interested in things that matter to you. One-on-one Connections ------------------------------------- Have a direct chat with those you find relevant. You can also break the connection anytime. All your chats go away and there is no way the other person can contact you again.

Avocado™

Seed Round in 2012
Avocado is an app for couples (available on iPhone, Android and the web) and is the best way to stay connected with your most important person. It’s a private space just for the two of you to collect and share a life.
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