Lightspeed

Activity from announced rounds

Activity in this selectionAI

Lightspeed Venture Partners invests from seed through growth in enterprise, consumer, fintech and healthcare companies, with a global investment platform.

Its sector teams approach different company-building problems: enterprise adoption, changes in consumer behaviour, financial infrastructure and unmet clinical needs. The partnership includes former founders and operators with domain experience, so the relevant team depends on the business being built rather than a single firm-wide industry thesis.

Lightspeed’s healthcare practice focuses on technologies that can improve patient outcomes. In fintech, its stated interests span the financial technology stack, including blockchain, rather than being limited to consumer banking applications.

Sources
Rounds participated in
67
Confirmed lead rounds
6
52 roles undisclosed
New companies
64
First participation on record · 3 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$15.1B
63 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Series C+21
Series A15
Series B11
Undisclosed10
Seed7
2 more
Growth2
Pre-seed1

By primary sector

AI27
Fintech9
Enterprise software6
Cybersecurity5
Healthtech5
9 more
Developer tools4
Defense tech2
Ecommerce2
Industrial tech2
Biotech1
Business services1
Edtech1
Hardware1
Proptech1

By country

United States49
Germany4
United Kingdom4
Israel3
2
5 more
Canada1
France1
India1
Singapore1
Sweden1

Rounds

67 in this selection
Inferact

Develops infrastructure for running large language models.

$150MSeed
Role not disclosed
Emergent

Provides AI software creation platform for building full-stack web and mobile applications

$70MSeries B
Role not disclosed
ClickHouse

Provides real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI/ML infrastructure

$400MSeries D
Role not disclosed
Skild AI

Building a unified robotics foundation model for controlling robots

$1.4BUndisclosed
Role not disclosed
Cyera

Provides a data security and AI governance platform helping enterprises control what AI can see and do

$400MSeries F
Role not disclosed
Arena

Arena evaluates AI models through comparisons and observations of how people use them in real tasks.

$150MSeries A
Role not disclosed
Stability AI

Builds generative AI creative tools for music, gaming and entertainment professionals

~$80MRecapitalisation investment
Participant