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.
Sarona 4 Zvi Strachilevich Street Tel Aviv 6473957 Israel
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
Partner
Taggart Bonham
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
Jack Fowler
Partner
Aaron Frank
Venture Partner
Adam Goldberg
Venture 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
Partner
Galym Imanbayev MD
Partner
Nnamdi Iregbulem
Partner
Raviraj Jain
Partner
Arif Janmohamed
Partner
Julie Kainz
Partner
Ansaf Kareem
Partner
Alex Kayyal
Partner
Dev Khare
Partner
Issac Kim
Partner
Will Kohler
Partner
Harsha Kumar
Associate Partner
Pinn Lawjindakul
Partner
Pachara Lawjindakul
Partner
Pachara 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
Partner and Co-Founder
Justin Overdorff
Partner
Zac Pan
Associate Partner
Apoorva Pandhi
Associate
Krish Parikh
Partner of Business Services
Nicole Quinn
Partner
Adrian Nicholas Radu
Partner
Christopher Schaepe
Co-Founder
Alexander Schmitt
Partner
Shan Shan
Partner
Justin Shen
Partner
Justin Shen
Partner
Shuvi Shrivastava
Partner
Ishaan Preet Singh
Investor
Adam Smith
Partner
Bejul Somaia
Partner
Rahul Taneja
Partner
Alex Taussig
Partner
John Thompson
Venture Partner
Anoushka Vaswani
Partner
Rytis Vitkauskas
Partner
Jason Wang
Vice President
Nathan Wang
Vice President
Nathan Wu
Partner, Growth
Mark Xu
Partner
Cici Yang
Vice President
Jerry Ye
Partner, Data Platform
Haowei Zhai
Vice President
Issac Zhang
Vice President
Ju Zhang
Executive Director
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 enhance spoken English skills through artificial intelligence. The application serves as a personal speech coach for non-native speakers, offering detailed feedback on critical speech metrics such as pronunciation, fluency, and confidence. By utilizing an advanced AI engine, Stimuler provides users with guided practice to improve their conversational proficiency. The platform caters to a diverse audience, including entrance examination aspirants, college students, and working professionals, all seeking to enhance their communication abilities. Through its innovative approach, Stimuler aims to empower individuals to achieve greater success in both academic and professional environments.
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 enhance spoken English skills through artificial intelligence. The application serves as a personal speech coach for non-native speakers, offering detailed feedback on critical speech metrics such as pronunciation, fluency, and confidence. By utilizing an advanced AI engine, Stimuler provides users with guided practice to improve their conversational proficiency. The platform caters to a diverse audience, including entrance examination aspirants, college students, and working professionals, all seeking to enhance their communication abilities. Through its innovative approach, Stimuler aims to empower individuals to achieve greater success in both academic and professional environments.
Rephrase.ai
Seed Round in 2020
Rephrase.ai specializes in an AI-powered video creation technology that transforms text into animated videos featuring realistic facial representations of individuals. This innovative approach employs generative AI to analyze and learn the facial features of specific people in relation to spoken audio, allowing the system to create photorealistic visuals for any new text or audio input. The platform serves a variety of applications, enabling clients to produce training videos, personalize sales presentations, animate characters in augmented and virtual reality, and provide a visual identity for digital assistants. Through its advanced technology, Rephrase.ai enhances the way organizations communicate and engage with their audiences.
Memory Labs
Grant in 2017
Memory Labs is focused on creating a voice-based reminder assistant system designed specifically for senior citizens. This innovative solution assists users in remembering daily medications and tasks. Caregivers can easily input reminders through an online portal, which are then delivered to a device that seniors can interact with. The system not only plays the reminders but also provides feedback via SMS notifications to confirm task completion. This functionality enhances communication between caregivers and seniors, allowing for more personalized care and enabling healthcare providers to offer tailored treatment methods 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, focusing on creating a global speech user interface that converts speech to text. The company’s Network Speech Recognition (NSR) platform ensures privacy, security, scalability, and speed, enabling seamless integration of voice user interface applications across various sectors. Promptu's technology serves automotive manufacturers, suppliers, and smart television manufacturers, and its applications support 40 languages and dialects, with capabilities for regional accent optimization and real-time text editing. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Promptu also maintains an office in Robina Town Centre, Australia. Originally known as AgileTV Corporation, the company rebranded in 2006. Major equity holders include Steelpoint Capital Partners, Insight Communications, Lauder Partners, and private investors.
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