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Lightspeed Venture Partners
Venture capital · Menlo Park, CA, United States · North America
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that has been an early backer and first investor in technology companies for over twenty years. It invests with high conviction from Seed through Series F and beyond, operating globally across the U.S., Europe, Israel, India and Southeast Asia.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsaienterprise softwarecybersecurityfintechhealthcareconsumer
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Or find every investor that fitsLightspeed Venture Partners lists 576 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 242 funding rounds, 94 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 31% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (26%), Fintech (14%) and Enterprise Software (12%). 71% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and General Catalyst.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Lightspeed Venture 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 Lightspeed Venture Partners' whole history. Rounds on record name 198 companies; its own site lists 576. 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 | 0% |
| Seed | 25% |
| Series A | 31% |
| Series B | 18% |
| Growth | 26% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 1 | 0 |
| '19 | 2 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 5 | 1 |
| '22 | 5 | 1 |
| '23 | 3 | 2 |
| '24 | 11 | 5 |
| '25 | 85 | 29 |
| '26 | 130 | 56 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 100th | 576 companies |
| Recent activity | 100th | 141 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 60th | 25% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 95th | 26% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 38th | 26% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 99th | 22 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 26% | 18% |
| Fintech | 14% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 12% | 8% |
| Cybersecurity | 8% | 4% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 8% | 15% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 5% | 6% |
| Education | 4% | 7% |
| Media & Entertainment | 4% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Andreessen Horowitz | 56 |
| Sequoia Capital | 49 |
| General Catalyst | 43 |
| Y Combinator | 41 |
| Kleiner Perkins | 36 |
| Salesforce Ventures | 35 |
| Accel | 33 |
| SV Angel | 30 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers53793%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company397%
- 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 togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Andreessen Horowitz
Compare Lightspeed Venture 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 Lightspeed Venture Partners| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Nov 2026 | Series C+ Led | |
| 2 Nov 2026 | Series B Led | |
| 29 Oct 2026 | Series C+ Led | |
| 28 Oct 2026 | Series B | |
| 22 Oct 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 20 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 14 Oct 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 8 Oct 2026 | Series B Led |
Round details for Lightspeed Venture Partners
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Lightspeed Venture Partners' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
576 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1047 Games develops and publishes a fast-paced 6v6 movement shooter called Empulse. | Gaming | Portfolio page | ||
| A Security fortifies you against weaponized AI by discovering and remediating exploitable attack paths. | Cybersecurity | Jun 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Alpha-9 Oncology is a clinical stage radiopharmaceutical company advancing a portfolio of molecules to treat cancer cells | Healthcare & Biotech | Oct 2024Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Abridge develops and provides generative AI for clinical conversations and documentation in healthcare. | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Feb 2025Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Abstract is a venture capital firm that invests in seed and early stage companies. | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Acceldata provides an autonomous data and AI platform for hybrid clouds | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Affirm offers payment plans for shoppers to pay over time with no fees | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Air Doctor connects travelers to private doctors worldwide. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Airbound is building a world where all movement is in the air with a new class of aircraft that can launch anywhere and fly itself | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2025Seed · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| Alchemy provides blockchain infrastructure for developers | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Oct 2021Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Aledade provides actionable insights and expert support for clinicians to keep their patients healthy while generating sustainable revenue through its accountable care organizations (ACOs). | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Alif Semiconductor produces microcontrollers and fusion processors | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Alloy provides financial crime and customer risk management solutions using AI-powered technology | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Almanac Health provides an AI assistant for clinicians to help with clinical decisions and workflows. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Almanac Health backs and builds healthcare businesses in partnership with exceptional people. | Healthcare & Biotech | Apr 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Amca expands competition and capacity for the critical components that defend the nation and build the physical infrastructure America needs | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | May 2026Series B | Page + round | |
| Anatomy provides financial automation solutions for healthcare organizations | Healthcare & BiotechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Ancora Biotech supports the clinical development of multi-specific antibodies for various diseases | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Andera automates controls testing with AI for audit teams | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Jun 2026Series A | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 11 Nov 2026- Site
- lsvp.com
- Last read
- 11 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 23 Oct 2018
- Companies checked
- 576
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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