Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm that backs startups across enterprise software, consumer technologies, fintech, healthtech, and cleantech from seed through growth stages. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, it maintains offices in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Herzliya to engage markets in the United States, Asia, and Israel. The firm focuses on technology-enabled businesses and has supported companies across software, mobile, data, e-commerce, and services, spanning early-stage to expansion rounds. It offers strategic guidance, network access, and capital, and has historically included debt financing as part of its investment approach. With a multi-region footprint and a broad multi-stage mandate, Lightspeed seeks to partner with entrepreneurs to scale innovative companies globally.

Shaurya Aggarwal

Partner

Vaibhav Agrawal

Associate Partner

James Alcorn

Partner

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Past deals in Language Processing

Stimuler

Seed Round in 2025
Stimuler is an AI-powered application designed to help non-native English speakers enhance their conversational English proficiency. It provides detailed feedback on speech metrics and guided practice for improving pronunciation, fluency, and confidence.

Meta Sota

Venture Round in 2024
Meta Sota is a technology company that specializes in smart search engines for lawyers. Using artificial intelligence technology to create useful AI office tools for legal practitioners and other text workers, the legal industry and other text workers will be greatly improved. Work efficiency, allowing users to take advantage of technology's convenience. "Mita Translation" is a Chinese-English artificial intelligence translation software that focuses on legal and official documents. To complete semantic analysis and semantic association, use a self-developed heterogeneous unstructured data engine.

Mistral AI

Series B in 2024
Mistral AI specialises in developing advanced artificial intelligence solutions. They focus on creating state-of-the-art AI models for natural language processing and complex problem-solving, aiming to enhance business efficiency and decision-making.

Patronus AI

Series A in 2024
Patronus AI specializes in an automated evaluation and security platform for large language models. Its AI-powered engine assesses and secures these models, identifying potential issues and providing customizable security solutions. The platform helps businesses safely adopt and deploy large language models by automating and scaling manual evaluation processes, thereby minimizing risks and ensuring model reliability.

Mistral AI

Series A in 2023
Mistral AI specialises in developing advanced artificial intelligence solutions. They focus on creating state-of-the-art AI models for natural language processing and complex problem-solving, aiming to enhance business efficiency and decision-making.

Sarvam AI

Series A in 2023
Sarvam AI specializes in developing an artificial intelligence platform tailored to India's diverse linguistic landscape. The platform aims to enhance the robustness, performance, and cost-effectiveness of generative AI app development, deployment, and distribution.

Sarvam AI

Seed Round in 2023
Sarvam AI specializes in developing an artificial intelligence platform tailored to India's diverse linguistic landscape. The platform aims to enhance the robustness, performance, and cost-effectiveness of generative AI app development, deployment, and distribution.

Patronus AI

Seed Round in 2023
Patronus AI specializes in an automated evaluation and security platform for large language models. Its AI-powered engine assesses and secures these models, identifying potential issues and providing customizable security solutions. The platform helps businesses safely adopt and deploy large language models by automating and scaling manual evaluation processes, thereby minimizing risks and ensuring model reliability.

Stimuler

Seed Round in 2023
Stimuler is an AI-powered application designed to help non-native English speakers enhance their conversational English proficiency. It provides detailed feedback on speech metrics and guided practice for improving pronunciation, fluency, and confidence.

AI4Bhārat

Venture Round in 2023
AI4Bhrat is focused on developing open-source language AI for Indian languages, including datasets, models, and applications.

Mistral AI

Seed Round in 2023
Mistral AI specialises in developing advanced artificial intelligence solutions. They focus on creating state-of-the-art AI models for natural language processing and complex problem-solving, aiming to enhance business efficiency and decision-making.

Langfuse

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Langfuse is a developer of an open-source analytics platform specifically designed for large language model (LLM) applications. The platform offers observability and analytics features that allow users to explore and debug complex logs and traces through a visual interface. By providing intuitive dashboards, Langfuse enables companies to enhance their applications by tracking and analyzing key metrics such as quality, cost, and latency across various product releases and use cases. This unified approach to the monetization stack helps organizations gain insights into their production environments, ultimately leading to improved performance and efficiency in their LLM applications.

Promptu Systems

Series B in 2000
Promptu Systems Corporation specializes in developing voice recognition and natural language processing applications. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with an additional office in Robina Town Centre, Australia, the company provides a global speech user interface that efficiently converts spoken language into text. Utilizing its automated Network Speech Recognition platform, Promptu ensures privacy, security, scalability, and speed in its services. Its applications support over 40 languages and dialects, can be tailored to regional accents, and include features for real-time review and editing of transcribed text. The company primarily serves automotive manufacturers, suppliers, and smart television manufacturers. Promptu Systems was incorporated in 2000 and was previously known as AgileTV Corporation before renaming itself in August 2006.

Sarvam AI

Sarvam AI specializes in developing an artificial intelligence platform tailored to India's diverse linguistic landscape. The platform aims to enhance the robustness, performance, and cost-effectiveness of generative AI app development, deployment, and distribution.
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