Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm based in Menlo Park that funds early-stage and growth-stage companies across consumer, enterprise technology, fintech, cleantech, healthtech, and software sectors. The firm backs startups from seed through expansion rounds, providing capital and strategic guidance to help entrepreneurs scale. It operates internationally with offices in the United States, China, India, and Israel, and has a history of investing in software, mobile, data, internet, and technology-enabled services. Lightspeed emphasizes identifying emerging trends, supporting talented teams, and pursuing opportunities in areas such as enterprise infrastructure, digital platforms, and consumer technologies. The firm seeks to partner with ambitious founders to accelerate product development, go-to-market execution, and global growth.

Shaurya Aggarwal

Partner

Vaibhav Agrawal

Associate Partner

James Alcorn

Partner

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Past deals in Electricity

Base Power

Series B in 2025
Base Power is a modern energy company specializing in reliable and affordable home energy services. It offers a distributed battery system that provides backup power for up to one day and operates as part of a virtual power plant, enhancing grid stability and ensuring uninterrupted electricity supply during outages.

Helion Energy

Series F in 2025
Helion Energy is a Redmond, Washington-based company developing fusion power technology to provide unlimited clean electricity. It designs and builds fusion engines, technology, and prototypes with a focus on commercializing fusion energy. The company has developed prototypes such as Trenta and is advancing its Polaris project to enable scalable, emission-free power generation for utilities and infrastructure developers.

SolarSquare Energy

Series B in 2024
SolarSquare Energy specializes in designing and installing residential solar panels for homes and small businesses. With a client base of over 4000 homeowners, the company aims to help customers reduce their monthly electricity bills by an average of Rs. 2000.

Flink

Series B in 2021
Flink is a consumer fintech platform that lets users save, spend, and invest from a single app. Founded in 2017 in Mexico City, it operates a brokerage service and launched its first brokerage product in June 2020. The company serves more than 1 million users with about 800,000 brokerage accounts, and 90% of traders are first-time investors. Flink focuses on accessible financial services and growth through product, infrastructure, and security improvements to support scale.

Indian Energy Exchange

Venture Round in 2010
Indian Energy Exchange is a power trading platform in India that provides an automated platform for the physical delivery of electricity, enabling price discovery and risk management for participants including utilities, open access consumers, generators, and industrial users. The exchange offers a range of products: Day-Ahead Market for next-day electricity delivery across 15-minute blocks, Term-Ahead Market covering intra-day, day-ahead contingency, and longer contracts, and Real-Time Market with half-hour auction sessions. It also supports trading of Renewable Energy Certificates and Energy Saving Certificates to facilitate renewable energy procurement and energy efficiency. Based in New Delhi, India, the exchange aims to increase market accessibility and transparency and to improve the efficiency of trade execution in the electricity market.
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