Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a Menlo Park-based global venture capital firm founded in 2000, operating as one of the most consistently high-performing multi-stage venture firms in the world with more than $25 billion in assets under management across its global platform including US, India, Israel, China, and Europe funds. The firm invests from pre-seed through growth stages with initial checks from $1 million to $10 million and has backed more than 500 companies across its fund history, with a portfolio spanning enterprise software, consumer technology, financial technology, healthcare, and artificial intelligence. Snap, the social media and camera company that completed a NYSE IPO in 2017, was backed by Lightspeed at a very early stage. Mistral AI, the French open-source large language model company now valued at $6 billion, received Lightspeed investment. Rubrik, the cloud data management and cybersecurity company, completed a NYSE IPO in 2024. Beyond its original investments in Snap, Mistral AI, and Rubrik, the broader portfolio includes Affirm, Nutanix, AppDynamics, Nest, Hims & Hers, Epic Games, and hundreds of additional enterprise and consumer technology companies across global markets.