Lightspeed India Partners

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.

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Akshay Bhushan

Partner

Guru Chahal

Partner

James Ephrati

Partner

Adam Goldberg

Venture Partner

Gaurav Gupta

Partner

David Gussarsky

Partner

Wei Hao

Executive Director - LCP

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Raviraj Jain

Partner

Arif Janmohamed

Partner

Ansaf Kareem

Partner

Harsha Kumar

Associate Partner

Pinn Lawjindakul

Partner

Will Leas

Partner

Jeremy Liew

Partner

Arsham Memarzadeh

Partner

Carolina Huaranca

Scout

Hemant Mohapatra

Partner

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Justin Overdorff

Partner

Nicole Quinn

General Partner

Christopher Schaepe

Co-Founder

Shan Shan

Partner

Adam Smith

Partner

Bradley Twohig

Partner

Anoushka Vaswani

Partner

Jerry Ye

Partner, Data Platform

Past deals in Search Engine Optimization

Glean

Series C in 2022
Glean develops an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data and generates answers through a tool in any company. It provides an AI assistant and enterprise search platform called Workplace Search that connects to internal data sources to help employees find information and answer questions. The platform uses advanced search, retrieval augmented generation, and large language models to generate personalized answers grounded.

Seismic

Series G in 2021
Seismic is the global leader in enablement, helping organizations engage customers, enable teams, and ignite revenue growth. The Seismic Enablement Cloud is the most powerful, unified enablement platform that equips customer-facing teams with the right skills, content, tools, and insights to grow and win. From the world’s largest enterprises to startups and small businesses, more than 2,000 organizations around the globe trust Seismic for their enablement needs.

Scopio

Venture Round in 2021
Scopio is an Online Community connecting photographers and visual artists to each other and to potential customers building the world's largest source of visual talent. Talented diverse artists from 190 countries have built profiles on Scopio, where they sell their images, tell their stories, and get hired for their visual art talent. Scopio powers its platform using AI to give access to anyone, anywhere to participate.

Glean

Series B in 2021
Glean develops an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data and generates answers through a tool in any company. It provides an AI assistant and enterprise search platform called Workplace Search that connects to internal data sources to help employees find information and answer questions. The platform uses advanced search, retrieval augmented generation, and large language models to generate personalized answers grounded.

Seismic

Series F in 2020
Seismic is the global leader in enablement, helping organizations engage customers, enable teams, and ignite revenue growth. The Seismic Enablement Cloud is the most powerful, unified enablement platform that equips customer-facing teams with the right skills, content, tools, and insights to grow and win. From the world’s largest enterprises to startups and small businesses, more than 2,000 organizations around the globe trust Seismic for their enablement needs.

Glean

Series A in 2019
Glean develops an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data and generates answers through a tool in any company. It provides an AI assistant and enterprise search platform called Workplace Search that connects to internal data sources to help employees find information and answer questions. The platform uses advanced search, retrieval augmented generation, and large language models to generate personalized answers grounded.

Seismic

Series E in 2018
Seismic is the global leader in enablement, helping organizations engage customers, enable teams, and ignite revenue growth. The Seismic Enablement Cloud is the most powerful, unified enablement platform that equips customer-facing teams with the right skills, content, tools, and insights to grow and win. From the world’s largest enterprises to startups and small businesses, more than 2,000 organizations around the globe trust Seismic for their enablement needs.

Kosmix

Series D in 2008
Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site (www.kosmix.com) lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevant videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. Kosmix's categorization engine organizes the Internet into magazine-style topic pages, enabling people to navigate the Web even if they don't know exactly what they're looking for. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Kosmix was founded in 2005 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman. Harinarayan and Rajaraman were co-founders of Junglee, the first shopping search engine which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. They later created Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk. Kosmix is funded by Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dag Ventures and Jeff Bezos' personal investment company, Bezos Expeditions. Kosmix began as a vertical search engine, initially introducing health site www.RightHealth.com as a proof-of-concept for the Kosmix approach to Web navigation. RightHealth is now the #2 health site on the Web, according to Hitwise. In June 2008, Kosmix expanded its focus from vertical to a complete horizontal play.

StreetFire

Series B in 2008
StreetFire is a vertical social media site for Automotive Enthusiasts. With over a million monthly unique visitors and streaming more than a million videos daily, StreetFire is one of the largest web sites dedicated to providing services to the automotive community.

Kosmix

Series C in 2007
Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site (www.kosmix.com) lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevant videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. Kosmix's categorization engine organizes the Internet into magazine-style topic pages, enabling people to navigate the Web even if they don't know exactly what they're looking for. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Kosmix was founded in 2005 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman. Harinarayan and Rajaraman were co-founders of Junglee, the first shopping search engine which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. They later created Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk. Kosmix is funded by Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dag Ventures and Jeff Bezos' personal investment company, Bezos Expeditions. Kosmix began as a vertical search engine, initially introducing health site www.RightHealth.com as a proof-of-concept for the Kosmix approach to Web navigation. RightHealth is now the #2 health site on the Web, according to Hitwise. In June 2008, Kosmix expanded its focus from vertical to a complete horizontal play.

StreetFire

Series A in 2007
StreetFire is a vertical social media site for Automotive Enthusiasts. With over a million monthly unique visitors and streaming more than a million videos daily, StreetFire is one of the largest web sites dedicated to providing services to the automotive community.

Kosmix

Series B in 2006
Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site (www.kosmix.com) lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevant videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. Kosmix's categorization engine organizes the Internet into magazine-style topic pages, enabling people to navigate the Web even if they don't know exactly what they're looking for. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Kosmix was founded in 2005 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman. Harinarayan and Rajaraman were co-founders of Junglee, the first shopping search engine which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. They later created Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk. Kosmix is funded by Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dag Ventures and Jeff Bezos' personal investment company, Bezos Expeditions. Kosmix began as a vertical search engine, initially introducing health site www.RightHealth.com as a proof-of-concept for the Kosmix approach to Web navigation. RightHealth is now the #2 health site on the Web, according to Hitwise. In June 2008, Kosmix expanded its focus from vertical to a complete horizontal play.

Kosmix

Series A in 2005
Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site (www.kosmix.com) lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevant videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. Kosmix's categorization engine organizes the Internet into magazine-style topic pages, enabling people to navigate the Web even if they don't know exactly what they're looking for. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Kosmix was founded in 2005 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman. Harinarayan and Rajaraman were co-founders of Junglee, the first shopping search engine which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. They later created Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk. Kosmix is funded by Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dag Ventures and Jeff Bezos' personal investment company, Bezos Expeditions. Kosmix began as a vertical search engine, initially introducing health site www.RightHealth.com as a proof-of-concept for the Kosmix approach to Web navigation. RightHealth is now the #2 health site on the Web, according to Hitwise. In June 2008, Kosmix expanded its focus from vertical to a complete horizontal play.
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