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

James Alcorn

Partner

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Past deals in Sports

Eternal

Seed Round in 2025
With a mission to keep athletes active and thriving in their chosen sports for as long as possible, Eternal provides members with a holistic understanding of their health, fitness, and benchmarks for key markers of the aging process along with guidance from high-performance care teams to support every stage of an athlete’s journey.

Fan Controlled Football

Series A in 2022
Fan Controlled Football is the first fan-run professional sports league. From selecting the team logos, colors and head coaches to calling plays, the fans are calling the shots.

BetDEX

Seed Round in 2021
BetDEX is a decentralized sports betting protocol that operates on a blockchain-based platform, allowing users to place bets on various sports utilizing cryptocurrency. The platform is designed to provide high-speed transactions and low costs while eliminating counterparty risk, making the betting process more secure and efficient. BetDEX is permissionless, enabling developers to create their own applications on top of its infrastructure. This flexibility allows customers not only to engage in sports betting but also to trade on sports and prediction markets, giving them control over their betting experience and the ability to set their own prices.

FrontRow

Series A in 2021
FrontRow is an online learning platform established in 2020 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India. The company focuses on creative arts, hobbies, and sports, providing a space for individuals to pursue their passions. Its platform offers a variety of courses in areas such as cricket, music, and comedy, taught by industry celebrities. By facilitating regular activities, competitions, and peer engagement, FrontRow enables learners to practice and showcase their talents, fostering a vibrant community of creative enthusiasts.

Betty Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Betty Labs is a developer of a sports trivia application aimed at enhancing live sports experiences. The company’s flagship product, Sideline, is a mobile game that allows viewers to win money by predicting future events during sports broadcasts. This application generates real-time questions based on the ongoing game, transforming mundane moments into engaging opportunities to compete with friends and ascend leaderboards. Additionally, Betty Labs offers a social audio platform where fans can join live discussions with sports insiders and athletes, facilitating conversations about their favorite teams and topics. Through these innovative offerings, Betty Labs seeks to enrich the way fans engage with sports.

Fan Controlled Football

Venture Round in 2020
Fan Controlled Football is the first fan-run professional sports league. From selecting the team logos, colors and head coaches to calling plays, the fans are calling the shots.

Art of Sport

Series A in 2020
Art of Sport is a direct-to-consumer personal care brand that develops body and skin care products designed to power athletic performance. Its lineup includes deodorant, body wash, soap, sunscreen and pain-relief products created with input from top athletes and skincare scientists. The company sells its products in the United States through its own website. Art of Sport was founded in 2018 by Matthias Metternich, Brian Lee and Kobe Bryant, with partnerships and input from other elite athletes across sports to guide product development.

Fan Controlled Football

Seed Round in 2020
Fan Controlled Football is the first fan-run professional sports league. From selecting the team logos, colors and head coaches to calling plays, the fans are calling the shots.

FrontRow

Venture Round in 2020
FrontRow is an online learning platform established in 2020 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India. The company focuses on creative arts, hobbies, and sports, providing a space for individuals to pursue their passions. Its platform offers a variety of courses in areas such as cricket, music, and comedy, taught by industry celebrities. By facilitating regular activities, competitions, and peer engagement, FrontRow enables learners to practice and showcase their talents, fostering a vibrant community of creative enthusiasts.

Unblockable

Venture Round in 2018
Unblockable, Inc. is a company based in Manhattan Beach, California, founded in 2018. It operates a platform that allows sports fans to buy, sell, and utilize blockchain-based digital collectibles. The company aims to bring prestigious intellectual property to the blockchain by collaborating with major sports leagues, player associations, and entertainment and gaming brands. Unblockable is positioned as a leader in the non-fungible digital collectibles market, blending traditional sports collectibility with the utility of virtual goods and elements of gameplay from fantasy sports and strategy games. Each athlete's likeness and performance are converted into unique tokens that can be traded on Unblockable's platform or other crypto collectible exchanges. Additionally, owning a collection of these tokens unlocks various functionalities within Unblockable's applications.

Athos

Series C in 2015
Athos develops smart fitness apparel that monitors biosignals during workouts. It translates this data into actionable insights for athletes and coaches, enhancing training efficiency and performance.
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