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.
Every Lightspeed company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — and why the top of the book and its real agent leaders are two different lists.
Read the report$750.00 · every API-bearing company in the book, scored on the Kin Score
Portfolio Strengthacross 596 profiled portfolio companies on the network
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, Anthropic, Outbrain, Beehiiv, Bloomreach.
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.
Exemplar9Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
The 596 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)
20%
16%
+4
MCP server (first-party)
10%
7%
+3
Agent Skills
0%
0%
0
OAuth scopes
8%
9%
-1
Security
81%
88%
-7
Arazzo workflows
3%
2%
+1
Governance rules
10%
13%
-3
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 603 members; 596
resolve to a provider in the catalog and 596 carry a score
(100%). The figures above describe the scored members only.Generated from the catalog build of
25 August 2026, across 26891
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.
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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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- Seed
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- Growth
- Artificial Intelligence
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- Enterprise Software
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- '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
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