Lightspeed Venture Partners

Venture capital firm
Menlo Park, California, USAFounded 2000$28.2B AUMlsvp.com

Venture capital firm backing founders from seed to Series F across enterprise software, healthcare, and fintech in the U.S., Europe, Israel, India, and Southeast Asia.

Strategy

Stages
SeedSeries ASeries BSeries CSeries DSeries ESeries F
Sectors
EnterpriseAIFintechConsumerHealthcareCybersecurity
Geographies
USAMenlo Park, California, USA
Check size
$1M-$100M

Recent changes

  1. Sep 9, 2026Invested in Lightfield (Series A, $47M) PR Newswire
  2. Sep 9, 2026Invested in Harvey ($550M) TechCrunch
  3. Sep 5, 2026Stages updated: Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Series D, Series E, Series F lsvp.com
  4. Sep 3, 2026Invested in Profound (Series C, $96M) Newcomer
  5. Aug 25, 2026Invested in Airbound (Series A, $37M) Dronelife
Earlier changes (15)
  1. Aug 19, 2026Follow-on: Invested in Castelion (Series C, $1B ($800M equity + $250M revolving credit facility)) Castelion
  2. Jul 30, 2026Invested in K2 Space (Series D, $500M) Bloomberg
  3. Jul 16, 2026Invested in Fireworks AI (Series D, $1.5B) CNBC
  4. Jul 15, 2026Invested in Neko Health (Series C, $700M) TechCrunch
  5. Jul 15, 2026Invested in Emergent (Series C, $130M) TechCrunch
  6. Jun 30, 2026Invested in Straiker (Series A, $64M) The Next Web
  7. Jun 25, 2026Invested in Patronus AI (Series B, $50M) TechCrunch
  8. Jun 4, 2026Follow-on: Invested in Ramp (Series F, $750M) PR Newswire
  9. Jun 3, 2026Follow-on: Invested in Suno (Series D, $400M+) Music Business Worldwide
  10. Jan 6, 2026Follow-on: Invested in Arena (Series A, $150M) Wikipedia
  11. Dec 5, 2025Invested in Castelion (Series B, $350M) Castelion
  12. Nov 17, 2025Invested in Ramp (Series E-2, $300M) PR Newswire
  13. Oct 2025Invested in Reflection AI (Series B, $2B) Wikipedia
  14. Sep 2, 2025Follow-on: Invested in Anthropic (Series F, $13B) TechCrunch
  15. May 2025Invested in Arena (Seed, $100M) Wikipedia

Funds

6
FundVintageSizeStrategySource
Lightspeed Venture Partners Fund IV2022$500MOther
As of 2022Wikipedia
Lightspeed Venture Partners Fund XIV2022$1.98BFlagship
As of 2022Wikipedia
Lightspeed Venture Partners Opportunity Fund II2022$2.36BOpportunity
As of 2022Wikipedia
Lightspeed Venture Partners Select V2022$2.26BOther
As of 2022Wikipedia
Lightspeed Venture Partners Venture Fund XIII2020Venture
As of Mar 5, 2020SEC EDGAR Form D
Show 1 earlier fund
FundVintageSizeStrategySource
Lightspeed Venture Partners Venture Fund XI2016$715MVenture
As of Mar 9, 2016SEC EDGAR Form D

Portfolio

20 total

Recent Investment Activity

20
DateCompanyEventAmountValuationInvestorsSource
Sep 9, 2026Harveyfunding round$550M$15.5B
Lightspeed Venture PartnersSapphire VenturesDiffusionWhale Rock Capital Management
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TechCrunch
Sep 9, 2026LightfieldSeries A$47M
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PR Newswire
Sep 3, 2026ProfoundSeries C$96M
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Pulse story
Aug 25, 2026AirboundSeries A$37M
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Dronelife
Aug 19, 2026CastelionSeries C$1B ($800M equity + $250M revolving credit facility)$13B
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Castelion
Jul 30, 2026K2 SpaceSeries D$500M$6.8B
Kleiner PerkinsIconiq CapitalLightspeed Venture PartnersAlphabet's CapitalGAltimeter Capital Management
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Pulse story
Jul 16, 2026Fireworks AISeries D$1.5B$17.5B
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Pulse story
Jul 15, 2026EmergentSeries C$130M$1.5B
Khosla VenturesLightspeed Venture PartnersY CombinatorCreaegisMNI Ventures-ClaypondSentinel GlobalSoftBank Vision Fund 2
TechCrunch
Jul 15, 2026Neko HealthSeries C$700M
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TechCrunch
Jun 30, 2026StraikerSeries A$64M
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The Next Web
Jun 25, 2026Patronus AISeries B$50M
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Pulse story
Jun 4, 2026RampSeries F$750M$44B
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PR Newswire
Jun 3, 2026SunoSeries D$400M+$5.4B
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Music Business Worldwide
Jan 6, 2026ArenaSeries A$150M~$1.7B
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Wikipedia
Dec 5, 2025CastelionSeries B$350M
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Castelion
Nov 17, 2025RampSeries E-2$300M$32B
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PR Newswire
Oct 1, 2025Reflection AISeries B$2B$8BWikipedia
Sep 2, 2025AnthropicSeries F$13B$183B
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TechCrunch
May 1, 2025ArenaSeed$100M$600MWikipedia
Mar 3, 2025AnthropicSeries E$3.5B$61.5B
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TechCrunch

Sector / Stage Activity

By sector (portfolio)
AI infra
8 · 40%
Defense
2 · 10%
Enterprise SaaS
2 · 10%
Robotics
1 · 5%
Biotech
1 · 5%
Energy/Grid
1 · 5%
Legal tech
1 · 5%
Space
1 · 5%
Health tech
1 · 5%
Fintech
1 · 5%
By stage (tracked rounds)
Series A
4 · 20%
Series C
4 · 20%
Series B
4 · 20%
Series D
3 · 15%
Series F
2 · 10%
Series E-2
1 · 5%
Seed
1 · 5%
Series E
1 · 5%

Co-Investors

12

Latest Pulse

Pulse coverage →
  1. Profound Raises $96M to Own AI Search AnswersProfound raised a $96 million Series C led by Lightspeed to help brands track and influence how they get cited inside AI chatbot answers, the generative engine optimization category forming as search shifts from links to answers.
  2. Straiker Raises $64M Series A to Secure the Enterprise AI Agent WorkforceStraiker, which calls itself 'the agentic security company,' raised a $64 million Series A -- bringing total funding to $85 million -- to protect the enterprise AI agents that legacy security tools were never built to govern. The round was led by Marathon Management Partners with Citi Ventures, Illuminate Financial and Workday Ventures, plus existing backers Bain Capital Ventures and Lightspeed.
  3. Patronus AI Lands $50M to Build Digital Worlds That Stress-Test AI AgentsPatronus AI raised a $50 million Series B led by Greenfield Partners, with Lightspeed, Notable Capital, Datadog and Samsung participating, bringing total funding to $70 million. The startup builds simulated digital environments -- replicas of websites and internal systems -- where AI agents are stress-tested before deployment, and counts nearly all frontier labs among its customers after 15x revenue growth.
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