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 Investment Banking

Endowus

Series C in 2023
Endowus is a digital wealth management platform that facilitates comprehensive investment strategies. It offers conflict-free fees, transparent pricing, cashback on trailer fees, and ensures security in investment decisions.

Endowus

Venture Round in 2021
Endowus is a digital wealth management platform that facilitates comprehensive investment strategies. It offers conflict-free fees, transparent pricing, cashback on trailer fees, and ensures security in investment decisions.

Parrot Finance

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Parrot unlocks institutional investing strategies, traditionally hidden behind expensive and exclusive wealth advisors

MejorCDT

Pre Seed Round in 2021
MejorCDT is an investment platform specializing in fixed-term products. It offers high-yield savings accounts as its primary service, allowing users to compare and invest without visiting a physical bank.

Endowus

Series A in 2021
Endowus is a digital wealth management platform that facilitates comprehensive investment strategies. It offers conflict-free fees, transparent pricing, cashback on trailer fees, and ensures security in investment decisions.

Endowus

Series A in 2021
Endowus is a digital wealth management platform that facilitates comprehensive investment strategies. It offers conflict-free fees, transparent pricing, cashback on trailer fees, and ensures security in investment decisions.

Wintermute

Series B in 2021
Wintermute is a global leader in algorithmic trading for digital assets. With an average daily trading volume of over $5 billion across 350+ tokens on 80+ exchanges, it facilitates OTC trades and provides liquidity provisioning services. Wintermute actively invests in early-stage DeFi projects, supporting the growth of decentralized finance.

Wintermute

Series A in 2020
Wintermute is a global leader in algorithmic trading for digital assets. With an average daily trading volume of over $5 billion across 350+ tokens on 80+ exchanges, it facilitates OTC trades and provides liquidity provisioning services. Wintermute actively invests in early-stage DeFi projects, supporting the growth of decentralized finance.

Ucaidao

Venture Round in 2019
Ucaidao was launched in 2016 to provide paid investment information. Its business involves two parts: the "exclusive information" about the market’s cutting-edge opportunities and first-hand news, and the "investment boutique courses" which provide investment skills summarized by specialists in the investment field.

Alpaca

Seed Round in 2018
Alpaca is an embedded financial technologies platform that provides real-time market data, crypto and stock investing, and end-to-end brokerage infrastructure via modern APIs. It serves hundreds of global applications and businesses, with tens of thousands of active developers.

Pluris

Series D in 2000
Pluris is a valuation firm based in New York City, established in 2006. It specializes in providing valuation advisory services, focusing on real estate appraisals, business valuations, intangibles, and intellectual properties, as well as assessments of illiquid, complex, and distressed securities. The firm caters to a diverse clientele that includes investment funds, investment banks, broker-dealers, private and public companies, their shareholders and executives, and high-net-worth individuals and families. In addition to its valuation services, Pluris offers daily marks services for high-volume clients and large institutions globally. The company is also involved in developing next-generation IP core infrastructure, leveraging its Teraplex architecture to enhance scalability, fault-tolerance, and performance, providing service providers with a pathway to future upgrades without significant infrastructure overhauls.
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