Lightspeed Europe

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.

Shaurya Aggarwal

Partner

Vaibhav Agrawal

Associate Partner

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner and Head of Gaming

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Akshay Bhushan

Venture Partner

Taggart Bonham

Partner

Ashley Brasier

Partner

Guru Chahal

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Amish Desai

Partner

Barry Eggers

Founder and Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

James Ephrati

Partner

Faraz Fatemi

Partner, Consumer

Jack Fowler

Partner

Aaron Frank

Venture Partner

Vivek Gambhir

Venture Partner

Gaurav Gupta

Partner

David Gussarsky

Partner

Lisa Han

Partner

Dat Han

Senior Associate

Rob Horton JD

COO

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Nnamdi Iregbulem

Partner

Raviraj Jain

Partner

Arif Janmohamed

Partner

Ansaf Kareem

Partner

Issac Kim

Partner

Harsha Kumar

Associate Partner

Pinn Lawjindakul

Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Jeremy Liew

Partner

Connor Love

Partner

John Luongo

Venture Partner

Natalie Luu

Partner

Naveed Matinfar

Partner

Arsham Memarzadeh

Partner

Michael Mignano

Partner, Consumer

Hemant Mohapatra

Partner

Andrew Moley

Operating Partner and CFO

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Antoine Moyroud

Partner

Eric O'Brien

Affiliated Partner

Justin Overdorff

Partner

Apoorva Pandhi

Associate

Nicole Quinn

General Partner

Adrian Radu

Partner

Alexander Schmitt

Partner

Shan Shan

Partner

Aditya Sharma

Partner, Growth Equity - India and Asia-Pacific

Justin Shen

Partner

Justin Shen

Partner

Alex Taussig

Partner

John Thompson

Venture Partner

John Thompson

Venture Partner

Anoushka Vaswani

Partner

Nathan Wu

Partner, Growth

Mark Xu

Partner

Mark Xu

Partner

Jerry Ye

Partner, Data Platform

Past deals in Software

WorkOS

Series B in 2022
WorkOS, Inc. develops software solutions that enable enterprises to prepare their applications for business growth by providing essential pre-built features and integrations. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, the company offers APIs that simplify the implementation of critical enterprise functionalities, such as Single Sign-On (SSO), directory syncing, audit trails, and access control. By integrating these features, WorkOS allows startups and other businesses to quickly become enterprise-ready, facilitating their ability to serve enterprise customers with minimal coding effort.

Scrut Automation

Seed Round in 2022
Scrut Automation automates a bulk of labor-intensive compliance tasks by integrating with cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools and automatically collecting hundreds of evidence artifacts, which would otherwise take weeks to collect.

Apex.AI

Series B in 2021
Apex.AI, Inc. develops software products specifically designed for autonomous mobility systems. Its primary offering, Apex.OS, is a software framework that simplifies the complexity of hardware, middleware, and interfaces, providing users with safe and secure APIs. The company also offers Apex.Autonomy, which is tailored for safety-critical applications. Additionally, Apex.AI features MARV.Automotive, an extensible data management platform that facilitates data transfer from vehicles to the cloud, enabling dynamic search-based analytics, log analysis, real-time algorithm execution, and data introspection through graphical tools. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Apex.AI aims to create robust and reliable operating systems for autonomous vehicles.

Lio

Seed Round in 2021
Lio is a data management application that helps users calculate, tabulate, and organize various tasks, including to-do lists, wedding registries, and class schedules. The software is designed for a diverse range of users, including home businesses, solo entrepreneurs, farmers, doctors, and small to medium enterprises. By providing simple and intuitive solutions, Lio enables these users to efficiently manage their business operations directly from their mobile devices, ensuring better organization and productivity.

Split Software

Series D in 2021
Split Software is a feature delivery platform that builds better software for engineering teams to build impactful products. Its feature delivery platform pairs the speed and reliability of feature flags with data to measure the impact of every feature. Engineering teams at Twilio, Salesforce, and WePay use Split to reduce software development cycle time, mitigate release risk, and create a data-driven culture to maximize impact. Founded in 2015, Split is based in Redwood City, California with offices in Boston and Argentina. It is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel Partners, and Harmony Partners.

Salto

Series B in 2021
Salto Labs Inc. specializes in business application configuration, providing a comprehensive dashboard for companies to manage their applications and services. Founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Salto offers a unique solution that employs an Open Source and an Enterprise SaaS product to facilitate multi-application configuration. At the core of its technology is NaCl (Not Another Configuration Language), which allows for the automatic extraction and declarative representation of configurations from various business applications, including Salesforce, NetSuite, and HubSpot. This innovative approach enables collaborative editing and deployment of configurations, with capabilities for testing, tracking, and rolling back changes as needed. Salto's structured language enhances usability by allowing text searches, re-use of configurations, inline documentation, and easy auditing of changes, ultimately streamlining business operations and reducing errors. The company is backed by notable investors and has expanded its presence with offices in both Tel Aviv and San Francisco.

Salto

Series A in 2020
Salto Labs Inc. specializes in business application configuration, providing a comprehensive dashboard for companies to manage their applications and services. Founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Salto offers a unique solution that employs an Open Source and an Enterprise SaaS product to facilitate multi-application configuration. At the core of its technology is NaCl (Not Another Configuration Language), which allows for the automatic extraction and declarative representation of configurations from various business applications, including Salesforce, NetSuite, and HubSpot. This innovative approach enables collaborative editing and deployment of configurations, with capabilities for testing, tracking, and rolling back changes as needed. Salto's structured language enhances usability by allowing text searches, re-use of configurations, inline documentation, and easy auditing of changes, ultimately streamlining business operations and reducing errors. The company is backed by notable investors and has expanded its presence with offices in both Tel Aviv and San Francisco.

Split Software

Series C in 2020
Split Software is a feature delivery platform that builds better software for engineering teams to build impactful products. Its feature delivery platform pairs the speed and reliability of feature flags with data to measure the impact of every feature. Engineering teams at Twilio, Salesforce, and WePay use Split to reduce software development cycle time, mitigate release risk, and create a data-driven culture to maximize impact. Founded in 2015, Split is based in Redwood City, California with offices in Boston and Argentina. It is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel Partners, and Harmony Partners.

Parsable

Series D in 2020
Parsable empowers industrial workers with modern digital tools to improve productivity, quality and safety. The Parsable Connected Worker Platform transforms static, paper-based procedures into mobile and interactive work instructions, enabling workers to leverage multimedia formats and collaborate in real time. With Parsable, companies gain unprecedented insight into human work by capturing essential data to improve their operations at scale. A partner of the World Economic Forum, Parsable is trusted by top global companies in the manufacturing and energy industries including consumer packaged goods, resources and chemicals, packaging and building materials, and automotive and aerospace.

WorkOS

Seed Round in 2020
WorkOS, Inc. develops software solutions that enable enterprises to prepare their applications for business growth by providing essential pre-built features and integrations. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, the company offers APIs that simplify the implementation of critical enterprise functionalities, such as Single Sign-On (SSO), directory syncing, audit trails, and access control. By integrating these features, WorkOS allows startups and other businesses to quickly become enterprise-ready, facilitating their ability to serve enterprise customers with minimal coding effort.

Apex.AI

Venture Round in 2019
Apex.AI, Inc. develops software products specifically designed for autonomous mobility systems. Its primary offering, Apex.OS, is a software framework that simplifies the complexity of hardware, middleware, and interfaces, providing users with safe and secure APIs. The company also offers Apex.Autonomy, which is tailored for safety-critical applications. Additionally, Apex.AI features MARV.Automotive, an extensible data management platform that facilitates data transfer from vehicles to the cloud, enabling dynamic search-based analytics, log analysis, real-time algorithm execution, and data introspection through graphical tools. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Apex.AI aims to create robust and reliable operating systems for autonomous vehicles.

Storie

Seed Round in 2019
Storie is a lifestyle community platform based in Jakarta, Indonesia, that offers users a comprehensive resource for cosmetic products. The application provides information on various beauty items and features user-generated reviews, enabling consumers to make informed decisions. Additionally, Storie hosts makeup tutorial videos, enhancing the user experience by offering practical guidance. Users can upload their own photos and share personal experiences, fostering a collaborative environment where community members contribute to a wealth of inspiring content and insights related to lifestyle products and services.

Testim

Series B in 2019
Testim makes it easy for developers and testers to become automation experts, making quality an organization-wide initiative and powering developers to own code quality.

M3O

Seed Round in 2019
M3O is a cloud-native development platform that facilitates the creation, sharing, and collaboration on microservices for developers. Founded in 1979 and based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the company aims to streamline the development process, allowing developers to concentrate on product innovation rather than infrastructure concerns. M3O's platform provides tools that simplify the complexities associated with microservices architecture, enabling teams to enhance their productivity and efficiency in building applications.

Apex.AI

Series A in 2018
Apex.AI, Inc. develops software products specifically designed for autonomous mobility systems. Its primary offering, Apex.OS, is a software framework that simplifies the complexity of hardware, middleware, and interfaces, providing users with safe and secure APIs. The company also offers Apex.Autonomy, which is tailored for safety-critical applications. Additionally, Apex.AI features MARV.Automotive, an extensible data management platform that facilitates data transfer from vehicles to the cloud, enabling dynamic search-based analytics, log analysis, real-time algorithm execution, and data introspection through graphical tools. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Apex.AI aims to create robust and reliable operating systems for autonomous vehicles.

Strangeworks

Seed Round in 2018
Strangeworks, Inc. is a quantum computing software company based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2017. It develops a platform that simplifies access to quantum computing for various users, including developers, researchers, and organizations. The Strangeworks QC™ platform serves as a central hub for integrating multiple quantum hardware and software providers, allowing users to apply quantum computing solutions to their specific challenges and research needs. The company offers a suite of developer tools and a systems management platform, enabling users to explore, experiment, and collaborate on quantum algorithms and applications. Strangeworks aims to make quantum computing more accessible and to mitigate issues related to vendor lock-in and architectural uncertainties in the field.

Zola

Series D in 2018
Zola, Inc. is a wedding company that provides a comprehensive platform for wedding planning and registry services. Founded in 2013 and based in New York, the company offers a suite of tools under the Zola Weddings brand, including customizable wedding websites, a versatile registry featuring gifts and experiences, a personalized checklist for managing tasks and deadlines, and a guest list management tool that aids in collecting addresses, tracking RSVPs, and facilitating communication with guests. Zola aims to simplify the wedding planning process by combining modern technology with attentive customer service, helping couples navigate from engagement to their wedding day and into their new lives together.

Zola

Series D in 2018
Zola, Inc. is a wedding company that provides a comprehensive platform for wedding planning and registry services. Founded in 2013 and based in New York, the company offers a suite of tools under the Zola Weddings brand, including customizable wedding websites, a versatile registry featuring gifts and experiences, a personalized checklist for managing tasks and deadlines, and a guest list management tool that aids in collecting addresses, tracking RSVPs, and facilitating communication with guests. Zola aims to simplify the wedding planning process by combining modern technology with attentive customer service, helping couples navigate from engagement to their wedding day and into their new lives together.

Parsable

Series C in 2018
Parsable empowers industrial workers with modern digital tools to improve productivity, quality and safety. The Parsable Connected Worker Platform transforms static, paper-based procedures into mobile and interactive work instructions, enabling workers to leverage multimedia formats and collaborate in real time. With Parsable, companies gain unprecedented insight into human work by capturing essential data to improve their operations at scale. A partner of the World Economic Forum, Parsable is trusted by top global companies in the manufacturing and energy industries including consumer packaged goods, resources and chemicals, packaging and building materials, and automotive and aerospace.

Split Software

Series B in 2018
Split Software is a feature delivery platform that builds better software for engineering teams to build impactful products. Its feature delivery platform pairs the speed and reliability of feature flags with data to measure the impact of every feature. Engineering teams at Twilio, Salesforce, and WePay use Split to reduce software development cycle time, mitigate release risk, and create a data-driven culture to maximize impact. Founded in 2015, Split is based in Redwood City, California with offices in Boston and Argentina. It is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel Partners, and Harmony Partners.

Testim

Series A in 2017
Testim makes it easy for developers and testers to become automation experts, making quality an organization-wide initiative and powering developers to own code quality.

Jovo

Convertible Note in 2017
Jovo is a development framework that facilitates the creation of cross-platform voice applications, including those for Alexa and Google Assistant. This open-source framework supports developers in building multimodal applications, allowing them to integrate voice with other user interfaces effectively. Jovo provides essential resources, including tutorials and documentation, to assist clients in the voice application development process, enhancing their ability to create interactive and functional voice experiences.

Split Software

Series A in 2017
Split Software is a feature delivery platform that builds better software for engineering teams to build impactful products. Its feature delivery platform pairs the speed and reliability of feature flags with data to measure the impact of every feature. Engineering teams at Twilio, Salesforce, and WePay use Split to reduce software development cycle time, mitigate release risk, and create a data-driven culture to maximize impact. Founded in 2015, Split is based in Redwood City, California with offices in Boston and Argentina. It is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel Partners, and Harmony Partners.

Zola

Series C in 2016
Zola, Inc. is a wedding company that provides a comprehensive platform for wedding planning and registry services. Founded in 2013 and based in New York, the company offers a suite of tools under the Zola Weddings brand, including customizable wedding websites, a versatile registry featuring gifts and experiences, a personalized checklist for managing tasks and deadlines, and a guest list management tool that aids in collecting addresses, tracking RSVPs, and facilitating communication with guests. Zola aims to simplify the wedding planning process by combining modern technology with attentive customer service, helping couples navigate from engagement to their wedding day and into their new lives together.

StacksWare

Seed Round in 2015
StacksWare, Inc. specializes in agentless software asset management solutions tailored for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and virtualized servers. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company provides a virtual appliance that aggregates software usage data, allowing IT administrators to monitor software assets within their VMware environments through an intuitive dashboard. This solution enables organizations to identify and eliminate unused software licenses, significantly reducing licensing costs without the need for installed agents. StacksWare's platform also facilitates the deployment and removal of software, monitoring of critical applications, and internal security audits, all achievable within minutes of installation. As of September 2017, StacksWare operates as a subsidiary of Avi Networks, Inc.

CODING

Series B in 2015
Coding.net is a cloud-based platform for software development collaboration, which has over 300,000 registered developers and more than 500,000 active projects. Adhering to the mission of “making development easier”, we integrate code development, project management, WebIDE and other development tools into the browser to simplify the deployment process, reduce the cost of developing and deploying, improve the efficiency of team collaboration and boost the productivity of software development, and therefore to ultimately realize our vision of “Coding Anytime Anywhere”.

Parsable

Seed Round in 2014
Parsable empowers industrial workers with modern digital tools to improve productivity, quality and safety. The Parsable Connected Worker Platform transforms static, paper-based procedures into mobile and interactive work instructions, enabling workers to leverage multimedia formats and collaborate in real time. With Parsable, companies gain unprecedented insight into human work by capturing essential data to improve their operations at scale. A partner of the World Economic Forum, Parsable is trusted by top global companies in the manufacturing and energy industries including consumer packaged goods, resources and chemicals, packaging and building materials, and automotive and aerospace.

AppDynamics

Series E in 2014
AppDynamics is a developer of an observability platform focused on application performance management and mobile analytics. The platform is designed to provide real-time insights into application performance, user interactions, and overall business performance. By dynamically collecting millions of performance data points across applications and infrastructure, it enables organizations to proactively monitor and optimize complex software environments. AppDynamics employs advanced analytics to instantly identify performance anomalies and facilitate automatic fixes, ensuring continuous measurement of business impact. This capability is delivered in real-time, allowing for flexibility in deployment across cloud or on-premise environments. The emphasis on user interactions enhances customer engagement and improves operational efficiency, positioning AppDynamics as a critical tool for software-defined businesses seeking to enhance their digital performance.

AppDynamics

Series D in 2013
AppDynamics is a developer of an observability platform focused on application performance management and mobile analytics. The platform is designed to provide real-time insights into application performance, user interactions, and overall business performance. By dynamically collecting millions of performance data points across applications and infrastructure, it enables organizations to proactively monitor and optimize complex software environments. AppDynamics employs advanced analytics to instantly identify performance anomalies and facilitate automatic fixes, ensuring continuous measurement of business impact. This capability is delivered in real-time, allowing for flexibility in deployment across cloud or on-premise environments. The emphasis on user interactions enhances customer engagement and improves operational efficiency, positioning AppDynamics as a critical tool for software-defined businesses seeking to enhance their digital performance.

AppDynamics

Series C in 2012
AppDynamics is a developer of an observability platform focused on application performance management and mobile analytics. The platform is designed to provide real-time insights into application performance, user interactions, and overall business performance. By dynamically collecting millions of performance data points across applications and infrastructure, it enables organizations to proactively monitor and optimize complex software environments. AppDynamics employs advanced analytics to instantly identify performance anomalies and facilitate automatic fixes, ensuring continuous measurement of business impact. This capability is delivered in real-time, allowing for flexibility in deployment across cloud or on-premise environments. The emphasis on user interactions enhances customer engagement and improves operational efficiency, positioning AppDynamics as a critical tool for software-defined businesses seeking to enhance their digital performance.

AppDynamics

Series B in 2010
AppDynamics is a developer of an observability platform focused on application performance management and mobile analytics. The platform is designed to provide real-time insights into application performance, user interactions, and overall business performance. By dynamically collecting millions of performance data points across applications and infrastructure, it enables organizations to proactively monitor and optimize complex software environments. AppDynamics employs advanced analytics to instantly identify performance anomalies and facilitate automatic fixes, ensuring continuous measurement of business impact. This capability is delivered in real-time, allowing for flexibility in deployment across cloud or on-premise environments. The emphasis on user interactions enhances customer engagement and improves operational efficiency, positioning AppDynamics as a critical tool for software-defined businesses seeking to enhance their digital performance.

AppDynamics

Series A in 2008
AppDynamics is a developer of an observability platform focused on application performance management and mobile analytics. The platform is designed to provide real-time insights into application performance, user interactions, and overall business performance. By dynamically collecting millions of performance data points across applications and infrastructure, it enables organizations to proactively monitor and optimize complex software environments. AppDynamics employs advanced analytics to instantly identify performance anomalies and facilitate automatic fixes, ensuring continuous measurement of business impact. This capability is delivered in real-time, allowing for flexibility in deployment across cloud or on-premise environments. The emphasis on user interactions enhances customer engagement and improves operational efficiency, positioning AppDynamics as a critical tool for software-defined businesses seeking to enhance their digital performance.

Transparency Software

Venture Round in 2007
Transparency Software, Inc. provides information policy management solutions for security, auditing, and compliance. The company offers Transparency Vision, an information policy management solution that enables business users to monitor, audit, and secure access to business information and data resources. The company’s Transparency Vision automatically discovers the transactions that access data resources, as well as connects business processes and applications to the information access. Its Transparency Vision is based on data service recognition technology, Transparency SRT, which automatically discovers, monitors, and reports on the service interactions between applications and database systems. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Transparency Software

Series A in 2005
Transparency Software, Inc. provides information policy management solutions for security, auditing, and compliance. The company offers Transparency Vision, an information policy management solution that enables business users to monitor, audit, and secure access to business information and data resources. The company’s Transparency Vision automatically discovers the transactions that access data resources, as well as connects business processes and applications to the information access. Its Transparency Vision is based on data service recognition technology, Transparency SRT, which automatically discovers, monitors, and reports on the service interactions between applications and database systems. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Storability Software

Series B in 2001
Storability Software is a provider of enterprise storage resource management solutions that simplify and centralize the management of complex, multi-site, multi-vendor storage infrastructures. Storability Software's Global Storage Manager is an open standards-based solution that enables customers to comprehend, control, and capitalize on their storage investment as never before. Customers benefit from increased asset utilization, improved management efficiency, enhanced quality of service, and higher availability.

Storability Software

Series A in 2000
Storability Software is a provider of enterprise storage resource management solutions that simplify and centralize the management of complex, multi-site, multi-vendor storage infrastructures. Storability Software's Global Storage Manager is an open standards-based solution that enables customers to comprehend, control, and capitalize on their storage investment as never before. Customers benefit from increased asset utilization, improved management efficiency, enhanced quality of service, and higher availability.
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