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.
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 222 (37%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 380 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are ElevenLabs, Stripe, Anthropic, Gainsight, Outbrain.
Portfolio on the Network
Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their
API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar14Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
The 455 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by
Lightspeed Venture Partners, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from
the catalog — nothing here is written.
A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the
“Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own
coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.
What this cohort publishes
Artifact
This cohort
Catalog
Difference
MCP server (any)
21%
15%
+6
MCP server (first-party)
20%
12%
+8
Agent Skills
0%
0%
0
OAuth scopes
11%
11%
0
Security
95%
98%
-3
Arazzo workflows
3%
2%
+1
Governance rules
11%
13%
-2
mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.
This roster declares 602 members; 569
resolve to a provider in the catalog and 455 carry a score
(80%). The figures above describe the scored members only. Coverage caveat. 407 of 455 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of
3 October 2026, across 28834
providers, using the same computation served by the
APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of
5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.
aid: lightspeed-venture-partners
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.
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
source: []
generated: '2026-07-22'
method: derived
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: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
- url: https://lsvp.com/feed/
type: BlogRSS
- type: Website
url: https://lsvp.com/
- type: Portfolio
url: https://lsvp.com/companies/
- type: Portfolio
url: portfolio/lightspeed-venture-partners-portfolio.yml
- type: Team
url: https://lsvp.com/lightspeed-team/
- type: Team
url: team/lightspeed-venture-partners-team.yml
- type: InvestmentThesis
url: https://lsvp.com/about/
- type: Blog
url: https://lsvp.com/stories/
- type: News
url: https://lsvp.com/stories/
- type: Jobs
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
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightspeed-venture-partners
- 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'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
url: https://apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
url: http://apisjson.org
- FN: Lightspeed Venture Partners
url: https://lsvp.com/
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