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

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Luke Beseda

Partner

Past deals in Laser

Chuangrui Spectrum

Seed Round in 2024
Chuangrui Spectrum specializes in the design and manufacture of time-resolved spectroscopy devices and equipment. Chuangrui Spectrum focuses mainly on research and development, as well as the manufacture and marketing of high-end scientific research equipment.

Hesai Technology

Series D in 2021
Founded in 2014, Hesai Technology specializes in designing and manufacturing LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) solutions. Its products facilitate advanced driver assistance systems, autonomous vehicles, and robotics across various industries worldwide.

Hesai Technology

Series C in 2020
Founded in 2014, Hesai Technology specializes in designing and manufacturing LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) solutions. Its products facilitate advanced driver assistance systems, autonomous vehicles, and robotics across various industries worldwide.

Hesai Technology

Series B in 2017
Founded in 2014, Hesai Technology specializes in designing and manufacturing LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) solutions. Its products facilitate advanced driver assistance systems, autonomous vehicles, and robotics across various industries worldwide.

Coherent | Nufern

Venture Round in 2005
Coherent | Nufern is a telecommunications company that specializes in the manufacturing of application-specific optical fibers. The company produces a range of fibers, including earth-doped fibers for lasers and amplifiers, gyroscope fibers, and polarization-maintaining fibers suitable for aerospace applications. Additionally, Coherent | Nufern offers extreme duty and radiation-hard fibers, photosensitive fibers, and single-mode fibers. The company also develops engineered fiber laser and amplifier modules for scientific applications and original equipment manufacturer integration, along with complete fiber laser systems designed for a variety of uses.

Teem Photonics

Venture Round in 2003
Teem Photonics S.A. is a manufacturer based in Meylan, France, specializing in passively Q-switched microlasers and photonics integrated circuits utilizing ion exchange technology. The company's Q-switched microlasers are known for their distinctive capabilities of generating sub-nanosecond, high peak power pulses from compact packages at elevated repetition rates. Teem Photonics also provides a range of products, including infrared, green, and ultraviolet lasers, as well as three-dimensional microfabrication solutions. Their offerings cater to diverse applications such as biomedical uses, marking, sensing, material processing, and advanced optical systems. Additionally, the company develops custom optical devices and solutions for silicon-photonics connections, along with comprehensive optical design, testing, assembly, packaging, and technical support services. Teem Photonics, founded in 1998, maintains a global presence with offices across Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, North America, and Mexico.
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