Venture Capital
Lightspeed Venture Partners
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.
603 portfolio companies
603 publish APIs here
13 properties
Portfolio Strength
across 602 profiled portfolio companies on the network
41
top-rated API companies
14 exemplar · 27 strong
98
agent-ready companies
15 agent-native · 83 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite
emerging
22.4
Agent-Readiness
human-only
12.6
Firms are ranked by cumulative portfolio strength — how many highly-rated API companies they've backed, weighted by tier across composite quality and agent-readiness. The averages below are a secondary read on the typical company in the book.
Lightspeed Venture Partners has 603 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 603 (100%) publish APIs indexed here.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Stripe, Polygon, Anthropic, Temporal, Grafana Labs.
Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their
API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
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name: Lightspeed Venture Partners
description: >-
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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generated: '2026-07-22'
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tags:
- Venture Capital
- Seed
- Series A
- Growth
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cybersecurity
- Enterprise Software
- Developer Tools
- Fintech
- Global
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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'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
url: https://apievangelist.com
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- FN: Lightspeed Venture Partners
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