/

Investors / Gaingels / Compare with Lightspeed Venture Partners

Gaingels vs Lightspeed Venture Partners

Gaingels lists 78 portfolio companies and has joined 64 funding rounds; Lightspeed Venture Partners lists 575 companies and has joined 242 rounds. Gaingels comes in most often at Seed (43% of its entries), Lightspeed Venture Partners comes in most often at Series A (31% of its entries). 3 companies are on both portfolios, among them Carta, Reliable Robotics and zagbio.com.

78Portfolio companies575
64Funding rounds joined242
1Rounds led94
36Rounds, last 12 months141
$5M to $20MTypical round it comes in at$20M to $100M
0%Sites no longer answering0%
Show as a table
Gaingels and Lightspeed Venture Partners, head to head
GaingelsLightspeed Venture Partners
Portfolio companies78575
Funding rounds joined64242
Rounds led194
Rounds, last 12 months36141
Typical round it comes in at$5M to $20M$20M to $100M
Sites no longer answering0%0%

Where they come in

share of entries by stage
Pre-seed0%0%
Seed43%25%
Series A21%31%
Series B25%18%
Growth12%26%

GaingelsLightspeed Venture Partners

Show as a table
Entry stages of Gaingels and Lightspeed Venture Partners, share of entries
GaingelsLightspeed Venture Partners
Pre-seed0%0%
Seed43%25%
Series A21%31%
Series B25%18%
Growth12%26%

Themes

share of checked companies
AI & Machine Learning25%26%
Healthcare & Biotech17%8%
Fintech13%14%
Enterprise Software6%12%
Cybersecurity3%8%
Industrial & Manufacturing8%4%

GaingelsLightspeed Venture Partners

Show as a table
Themes of Gaingels and Lightspeed Venture Partners, share of checked companies
GaingelsLightspeed Venture Partners
AI & Machine Learning25%26%
Healthcare & Biotech17%8%
Fintech13%14%
Enterprise Software6%12%
Cybersecurity3%8%
Industrial & Manufacturing8%4%

Companies both back

3

Shared companies are those both firms' own portfolio pages list, each checked against the company's site. The same comparison through the API is POST /v1/overlap, for up to 20 firms. How the data is graded

Free account · no card

Compare Gaingels and Lightspeed Venture Partners as data

Pull both portfolios and every co-investor through one API key or MCP, and lay up to 20 firms side by side with POST /v1/overlap. A free account adds Ask AI searches and alerts when either firm adds a company.

Work email, sign-in link by email. Already have an account? Log in
  • Ask AI5 plain-English investor searches a day
  • Full listsEvery portfolio row and two-firm overlap
  • API and MCP100 REST or MCP calls a month, one key
  • AlertsFollow 5 investors for portfolio and fund changes
VCinfo API
$ curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://api.vcinfo.io/v1/firms/gaingels.com/portfolio

# also
GET /v1/firms/lsvp.com/portfolio
GET /v1/firms/gaingels.com/coinvestors
The same data as an MCP server for Claude, Cursor and other AI tools. Set up MCP · Docs · Pricing