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Lightspeed Venture Partners

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American venture capital firm

Lightspeed Venture Partners is an American venture capital firm focusing on seed stage, early stage investments and growth stage investments in the enterprise, fintech, consumer and healthcare sectors. Lightspeed has eleven offices globally and as of 2023 had approximately US$35 billion in assets under management.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2000Founded1

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Lightspeed Venture Partners is an American venture capital firm focusing on seed stage, early stage investments and growth stage investments in the enterprise, fintech, consumer and healthcare sectors. Lightspeed has eleven offices globally and as of 2023 had approximately US$35 billion in assets under management.2

The story

Lightspeed was founded in 2000 by enterprise founders Barry Eggers, Christopher Schaepe, Ravi Mhatre, Peter Nieh. They previously worked at Weiss, Peck & Greer and went to Stanford University together.

Lightspeed opened its first international office in Tel-Aviv in 2006 following Yoni Cheifetz joining the firm. This effort soon extended to India when Bejul Somaia joined the firm in 2008 to begin the firms India practice and then in Singapore in 2022. For the next decade, Lightspeed Venture Partners largely remained an enterprise software and infrastructure specialists.

From Wikipedia’s article on Lightspeed Venture Partners, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

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