Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners (Lightspeed, LSVP) is a global venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2000 by Barry Eggers, Ravi Mhatre, Christopher Schaepe and Peter Nieh - who previously worked at Weiss, Peck & Greer. The firm invests multi-stage - from seed through early stage to growth - across the enterprise, fintech, consumer and healthcare sectors, with a growing share of artificial intelligence. Lightspeed operates globally, with offices including Menlo Park, San Francisco, New York, Tel Aviv, New Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Singapore, London, Paris and Berlin. According to available data the firm manages roughly $35-50B in assets (about $35B as of 2023, and per the Wikipedia infobox around $50B); in 2022 it raised $7.1B across several funds (including Fund XIV, Select Fund V, Opportunity Fund II). Its most notable investments include Snap Inc., Nutanix, Rubrik, Affirm, MuleSoft (acquired by Salesforce for $6.5B) and Mistral AI.