Lightspeed Israel

Lightspeed Israel, established in 2006, is a venture capital firm based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It invests in seed, early, and later-stage companies across the information technology and TMT sectors. The firm focuses on supporting innovative Israeli startups, providing capital and strategic guidance to accelerate their growth. Lightspeed Israel typically invests between $2 million to $25 million per company, with a particular interest in enterprise, health, fintech, and consumer sectors. It manages multiple funds, including Lightspeed Venture Partners IX and Lightspeed India Partners I & II, to support its investment activities in Israel and India.

Shaurya Aggarwal

Partner

Vaibhav Agrawal

Venture Partner

James Alcorn

Partner

Saqib Awan

Partner

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner and Head of Gaming

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Luke Beseda

Partner

Akshay Bhushan

Venture Partner

Taggart Bonham

Partner

Ashley Brasier

Partner

Wei Cai

Partner

Guru Chahal

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Sun Daniel

Partner

Amish Desai

Partner

Sebastian Duesterhoeft

Partner

Barry Eggers

Co-Founder and Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

James Ephrati

Partner

Faraz Fatemi

Partner, Consumer

Jack Fowler

Partner

Aaron Frank

Venture Partner

Merci Grace

Partner

Globin Guo

Executive Director

Gaurav Gupta

Partner

David Gussarsky

Partner

Herry Han

Co-Founder and Partner

Lisa Han

Partner

Rob Horton JD

COO

Galym Imanbayev MD

Partner

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Nnamdi Iregbulem

Partner

Raviraj Jain

Partner

Arif Janmohamed

Partner

Julie Kainz

Partner

Francis Kao

Partner

Ansaf Kareem

Partner

Alex Kayyal

Partner

Issac Kim

Partner

Will Kohler

Partner

Harsha Kumar

Associate Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Pinn Lawjindakul

Partner

Will Leas

Partner

Jeremy Liew

Partner

Connor Love

Partner

John Luongo

Venture Partner

Natalie Luu

Partner

Naveed Matinfar

Partner

Ravi Mhatre

Co-Founder and Partner

James Mi

Founding Partner

Andrew Moley

Operating Partner and CFO

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Peter Nieh

Co-Founder and Partner, Enterprise

Justin Overdorff

Partner

Zac Pan

Associate Partner

Apoorva Pandhi

Associate

Krish Parikh

Partner of Business Services

Nicole Quinn

Partner

Adrian Nicholas Radu

Partner

Alexander Schmitt

Partner

Shan Shan

Partner

Justin Shen

Partner

Justin Shen

Partner

Shuvi Shrivastava

Partner

Ishaan Preet Singh

Investor

Ajay Sudan

Venture Partner

Sydney Sykes

Partner

John Thompson

Venture Partner

Anoushka Vaswani

Partner

Jason Wang

Partner

Nathan Wang

Vice President

Nathan Wu

Partner, Growth

Mark Xu

Partner

Cici Yang

Vice President

Jerry Ye

Partner, Data Platform

Haowei Zhai

Vice President

Ju Zhang

Executive Director

Issac Zhang

Vice President

Gavin Zhu

Partner

Hu Peipei

Investment Manager

Past deals in Speech Recognition

Stimuler

Seed Round in 2025
Stimuler is a language learning platform designed to assist non-native English speakers in enhancing their conversational proficiency. Utilizing advanced artificial intelligence technology, the application offers personalized speech coaching and delivers detailed feedback on critical speech metrics such as pronunciation and fluency. By providing structured practice sessions, Stimuler aims to boost users' confidence and communication skills, catering to a diverse audience that includes entrance examination aspirants, college students, and working professionals.

Reflection.Ai

Series A in 2025
Reflection.AI is a start-up that develops artificial intelligence solutions, focusing on computer vision. The company provides tools to create personalized AIs that can interact and chat just like real people, using cutting-edge technology.

Stimuler

Seed Round in 2023
Stimuler is a language learning platform designed to assist non-native English speakers in enhancing their conversational proficiency. Utilizing advanced artificial intelligence technology, the application offers personalized speech coaching and delivers detailed feedback on critical speech metrics such as pronunciation and fluency. By providing structured practice sessions, Stimuler aims to boost users' confidence and communication skills, catering to a diverse audience that includes entrance examination aspirants, college students, and working professionals.

Rephrase.ai

Seed Round in 2020
Rephrase.ai is a technology company that specializes in video creation through its AI-powered visual dubbing tool. The company has developed innovative technology that transforms any piece of text into a video featuring a person speaking that text. By utilizing generative AI, Rephrase.ai's system learns and reconstructs photorealistic facial features corresponding to spoken audio, allowing for the creation of customized videos. This capability enables clients to produce training videos, personalize sales content, animate characters in augmented and virtual reality, and give a face to digital assistants. Rephrase.ai's solutions cater to a variety of applications, enhancing communication and engagement through dynamic visual content.

Memory Labs

Grant in 2017
Memory Labs is focused on creating a voice-based home assistant designed specifically for senior citizens. The company has developed a system that facilitates daily reminders for medication and tasks, enhancing the well-being and autonomy of elderly users. Through an online web portal, caregivers can input reminders related to medication schedules and appointments, which are then communicated through a device that seniors can easily interact with. Additionally, the system provides confirmation of completed tasks via SMS notifications, allowing for effective communication between caregivers and healthcare providers. This innovative approach enables tailored treatment methods to be delivered directly to patients in their homes.

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.
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