Overview
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm investing in enterprise, consumer, and frontier technology. Based in Menlo Park with offices in Israel, India, and China. Investments include Snap, Affirm, MuleSoft, and Nest Labs.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
HQ
Founded
Notable investments
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Web sources
1
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Partnerships
Every company Lightspeed Venture Partners has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Amazon1× joint16 total
- 2Bezos Expeditions1× joint2 total
- 3Carnegie Mellon University1× joint1 total
- 4Coatue1× joint1 total
- 5Sequoia Capital1× joint1 total
- 6Skild AI1× joint3 total
Most recent
- Skild AI Series A (2024)2024-07-09with Skild AIoperating
Relationships
Current leadership (7)
- Barry Eggers Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Christopher Schaepe Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Ravi Mhatre Co-founder & Partnersecondary-verified
- Peter Nieh Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Bejul Somaia Partnersecondary-verified
- Yoni Cheifetz Partner (Israel)secondary-verified
- Bipul Sinha Venture Partnersecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
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Recent coverage
Lightspeed Venture Partners in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
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Partnerships
1 total · 1 operating
Every company Lightspeed Venture Partners has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Skild AI Series A (2024)2024-07-09with Skild AIoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Amazon1× joint16 total
- 2Bezos Expeditions1× joint2 total
- 3Carnegie Mellon University1× joint1 total
- 4Coatue1× joint1 total
- 5Sequoia Capital1× joint1 total
- 6Skild AI1× joint3 total
Funding rounds (3)
- Seed
- Seed
- Seed
Timeline
Every recorded move in Lightspeed Venture Partners’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipSkild AI Series A (2024)
2024-07-09Skild AI raised a $300 million Series A (announced July 9, 2024) at about a $1.5B valuation to build a scalable AI foundation model for robotics; led by Lightspeed, Coatue, SoftBank Group and Jeff Bezos, with participation from Amazon, Sequoia, Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst, and Carnegie Mellon University.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 25, 2026
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Sources (1)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-09-07
Verification posture
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Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-09-07
Sources by quality tier
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Methodology surface for Lightspeed Venture Partners.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Lightspeed Venture Partners from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Harvey Raises $550M Other
Harvey raises $550M in a funding round led by Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners to reach a $15.5B valuation and expand its legal AI platform.
Harvey raises $550M more to develop AI tools for legal teams
Six months after its last nine-figure funding round, Harvey AI Corp. today announced that it has raised $550 million at $15.5 billion valuation. Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture…
Cylake Raises $245 Million Through Convertible Note, Bringing Total Funding To $290 Million
Cylake has raised $245 million through a convertible note, bringing the AI-native cybersecurity company's total funding to $290 million ahead of the planned beta release of its…
Whatnot Raises $545M Series G
Whatnot raises $545 million in a Series G round led by ICONIQ, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Avra to expand its AI-powered live commerce marketplace.
Why Lightspeed is going all-in on creator-led venture capital
Venture firms are turning to creators to build trust with the next generation of founders before a check is ever written. It’s a trend that’s been building with a16z’s acquisition…
Harmony Announces $34M in Funding to Reinvent Employee Experience Powered by AI
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Harmony, an AI platform that delivers personalized, context-aware employee support across IT, HR, finance, procurement, and legal, has announced a…
K2 Space Lands $500 Million Funding Round
K2 Space Corp., the Torrance-based space satellite company, raised $500 million in series D funding, catapulting the company’s valuation to $6.8 billion. Kleiner Perkins and…
Meet the 22 Investors to Know in Robotics and Physical AI - Business Insider
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A Security Emerges from Stealth with $37M in Funding to Outpace Weaponized AI - GlobeNewswire
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A Security Raises $37 Million for Autonomous Offensive Security Platform - SecurityWeek
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Our Investment in Luel: The Marketplace for Multimodal AI Training Data - Lightspeed Venture Partners
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The New Unicorn Count Reached A 4-Year High In March, Led By Robotics, Frontier Labs And AI Infrastructure - Crunchbase News
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Heat Index
Serious52/100
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Reality vs attention
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Analysis
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Last computed: Oct 2, 2026