Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global, multi-stage venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Barry Eggers, Christopher Schaepe, Ravi Mhatre, and Peter Nieh, and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Lightspeed invests from seed through Series F and beyond, backing bold builders across artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cloud and enterprise infrastructure, developer tools, fintech, consumer, gaming, and healthcare/biotech. The firm operates as a single global team across roughly a dozen offices in the United States, Europe, Israel, India, and Southeast Asia, with U.S./Europe/Israel run by Lightspeed Management Company (LSVP) and India/Southeast Asia by Lightspeed India Partners (LSIP). Lightspeed reports managing on the order of $25B+ (up to $40B+ by some self-reported figures) across the Lightspeed platform. Notable investments and exits include Anthropic, Mistral AI, ElevenLabs, Wiz, Rubrik, Cato Networks, Stripe, Affirm, Snap, Nutanix, MuleSoft, AppDynamics, Nest, Grafana, ngrok, Faire, and Navan.
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name: Lightspeed Venture Partners
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Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global, multi-stage venture capital firm
founded in 2000 by Barry Eggers, Christopher Schaepe, Ravi Mhatre, and Peter
Nieh, and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Lightspeed invests from
seed through Series F and beyond, backing bold builders across artificial
intelligence, cybersecurity, cloud and enterprise infrastructure, developer
tools, fintech, consumer, gaming, and healthcare/biotech. The firm operates
as a single global team across roughly a dozen offices in the United States,
Europe, Israel, India, and Southeast Asia, with U.S./Europe/Israel run by
Lightspeed Management Company (LSVP) and India/Southeast Asia by Lightspeed
India Partners (LSIP). Lightspeed reports managing on the order of $25B+ (up
to $40B+ by some self-reported figures) across the Lightspeed platform.
Notable investments and exits include Anthropic, Mistral AI, ElevenLabs, Wiz,
Rubrik, Cato Networks, Stripe, Affirm, Snap, Nutanix, MuleSoft, AppDynamics,
Nest, Grafana, ngrok, Faire, and Navan.
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
image: https://lsvp.com/wp-content/themes/lightspeed/assets/images/lightspeed-logo.svg
tags:
- Venture Capital
- Seed
- Series A
- Growth
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cybersecurity
- Enterprise Software
- Developer Tools
- Fintech
- Global
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
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- type: Team
url: https://lsvp.com/lightspeed-team/
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url: https://jobs.lsvp.com/jobs
- type: Contact
url: https://lsvp.com/global-presence/
- type: Crunchbase
url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lightspeed-venture-partners
- type: LinkedIn
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- type: Twitter
url: https://twitter.com/lightspeedvp
- type: Features
data:
- 'Stage: Seed through Series F and beyond (multi-stage)'
- 'Sectors: AI, cybersecurity, cloud/enterprise infrastructure, developer tools, fintech, consumer, gaming, healthcare/biotech'
- 'Geography: United States, Europe, Israel, India, Southeast Asia (global)'
- 'AUM: $25B+ on the Lightspeed platform (self-reported; up to $40B+ by some sources)'
- 'Founded: 2000'
- 'Founders: Barry Eggers, Christopher Schaepe, Ravi Mhatre, Peter Nieh'
- 'HQ: Menlo Park, California'
- 'Offices: ~11 globally (Menlo Park, San Francisco, New York, Tel Aviv, New Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Singapore, London, Paris, Berlin)'
sources:
- https://lsvp.com/about/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightspeed_Venture_Partners
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightspeed-venture-partners
updated: '2026-07-17'
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