Investors / Lightshift
Lightshift
Venture capital
Lightshift is an investment firm that joins forces with and invests in early-stage projects to co-build an open, decentralized future. It writes first checks and works closely with founders as an early partner.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningCybersecurityHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsweb3decentralizedblockchainearly-stagehealthcare
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Or find every investor that fitsLightshift lists 2 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (33%), Cybersecurity (33%) and Healthcare & Biotech (33%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Antler.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Lightshift, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| 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 | 1 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Alumni Ventures | 1 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 1 |
| Antler | 1 |
| Big Brain Holdings | 1 |
| Blockchain Builders Fund | 1 |
| Blockchange Ventures | 1 |
| No Limit Holdings | 1 |
| Rosecliff Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2100%
- 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 33% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 33% | 4% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 33% | 15% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Lightshift 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 Lightshift| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Mar 2026 | Seed | |
| 1 Apr 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Lightshift
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Lightshift's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
2 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akave provides a managed, S3-compatible object-storage layer for persistent AI data in GPU clouds. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Mar 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| AminoChain connects patients and researchers to advance biomedical discovery by providing a research platform and managing biological samples and health information. | Healthcare & Biotech | Apr 2025Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- lightshift.xyz
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 1 Apr 2025
- Companies checked
- 2
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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