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Lightscape Partners
Venture capital · New York, NY, United States · North America
Lightscape Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in founders building at the intersection of physical systems and artificial intelligence. It supports portfolio companies with strategic insights, cross-portfolio collaboration, and help with product, sales, and scaling.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
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Or find every investor that fitsLightscape Partners lists 33 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 8 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 38% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (38%), Industrial & Manufacturing (14%) and Enterprise Software (7%). 91% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Alumni Ventures and Blackhorn Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Lightscape Partners, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Lightscape Partners' whole history. Rounds on record name 8 companies; its own site lists 33. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 13% |
| Seed | 38% |
| Series A | 38% |
| Series B | 13% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 6 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 71th | 33 companies |
| Recent activity | 93th | 8 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 94th | 24% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 70th | 38% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 38% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 14% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 7% | 8% |
| Fintech | 7% | 12% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 5% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 5% | 4% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 4% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 5 |
| Alumni Ventures | 4 |
| Blackhorn Ventures | 3 |
| GS Futures | 3 |
| General Catalyst | 3 |
| Mana Ventures | 3 |
| Samsung NEXT | 3 |
| StartX | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers33100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Lightscape Partners head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Lightscape Partners| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Oct 2026 | Series B | |
| 21 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 14 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 18 Aug 2026 | Seed | |
| 13 Aug 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 24 Feb 2026 | Series A | |
| 17 Dec 2025 | Series A | |
| 20 Nov 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Lightscape Partners
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Lightscape Partners' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
33 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ansa Biotechnologies synthesizes custom DNA sequences for its customers. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Articul8 develops and provides a GenAI platform for enterprise outcomes | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Bucket Robotics turns sensor data into inspection knowledge teams can trust—from making parts to keeping them in service. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an artificial intelligence platform for electronics design and verification | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Oct 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Databento provides market data APIs and solutions for firms | FintechDeveloper Tools | Portfolio page | ||
| Emanate runs revenue operations around the clock, handling inbound capture, account expansion, pipeline creation, and pricing decisions | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Etched designs and manufactures AI hardware, specifically frontier inference clusters, which include co-designed chips, racks, software, and manufacturing methods. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| F.energy is working on developing fusion energy technology | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Fleak provides security data pipeline solutions to optimize and manage security information and event management (SIEM) systems | CybersecurityIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Formic provides robotic automation services for manufacturers | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | Oct 2026Series B | Page + round | |
| Fulcra connects users to their AI agents and tools, and allows agents to share context and coordinate with other agents | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Iron Grid develops data center engineering solutions using AI | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Limina provides data de-identification services to remove personal data from text, images, audio, and documents | Healthcare & BiotechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Sapien is the intelligent engine for finance and operations that learns a business, uncovers opportunities, and helps the team turn them into results. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Graphon develops artificial intelligence technology that remembers and understands connections between data | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Graphon develops artificial intelligence technology called Persistent Intelligence that remembers and connects what it has read, heard, and seen | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and implements AI technology to improve service standards and unlock growth for businesses | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Marveri provides an AI platform for due diligence in mergers and acquisitions and venture financings | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Merlin Ai coordinates the materials, labour, information, decisions, and capital required to transform project plans into delivered buildings. | Real Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Near Space Labs captures high-resolution geospatial data from the stratosphere using autonomous vehicles for Earth observation and monitoring. | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 12 Nov 2026- Site
- lightscape.vc
- Last read
- 12 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 20 Nov 2025
- Companies checked
- 33
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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