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Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive innovations and trends in various sectors.

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光速中国, Guangsu Zhongguo, 美国光速创投, Meiguo Guangsu Chuang Tou

founded date

01.01.2000

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IPO status

Private

Description

With a global team and $18B in assets under management, Lightspeed Venture Partners has supported hundreds of entrepreneurs and helped build over 500 companies worldwide. Their focus areas include enterprise, consumer, health, and fintech sectors. They specialize in seed, early-stage, and growth companies, providing debt financing and expertise. Their investments span countries such as the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India, and cover sectors like big data, cleantech, mobile, and biotechnology.
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Lightspeed India Partners

Lightspeed India Partners

Lightspeed India Partners invests in early-stage startups in India and Southeast Asia.

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General Industrials

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Diversified Industrials

Keywords

Financial Services, Venture Capital, Finance

Location

New Delhi, Delhi, India

count Of Investments

89

count Of Exists

4
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Location

London, UK

count Of Investments

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count Of Exists

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Date 
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Lead 
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30.07.2024
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$8.5M
25.07.2024
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$140M
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Subsector

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Subsector

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Subsector

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Sector

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Subsector

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Keywords

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Location

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total rounds

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total raised

$31.41M

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Founders
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Christopher Schaepe
Christopher Schaepe

Christopher Schaepe

Christopher Schaepe is a founding general partner of Lightspeed Venture Partners, an early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, CA with offices in Asia and Israel. He has 15 years of venture capital experience and invests in areas including infrastructure technologies, digital media and services. Mr. Schaepe has been responsible for investments including AMEC, Brocade, Ciena, Combinet, eHealth, Galileo Technology, LightLogic, Lightspeed International, Premisys, Quantum Effect Devices, Rhythm, Riverbed, SemEquip, SiPort, Terayon, Transmeta, Tzero and Unity. Prior to Lightspeed, he was a general partner at Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners after serving in corporate finance and capital markets roles at Goldman Sachs. Previously, Mr. Schaepe was a software engineer at IBM. He holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Stanford Business School.

current job

Lightspeed Venture Partners
Lightspeed Venture Partners

count Of Investments

4

count Of Exists

1

Christopher Schaepe

Barry Eggers
Barry Eggers

Barry Eggers

Barry is a Founder and Partner of Lightspeed and focuses primarily on information technology infrastructure, with a specific interest in cloud computing, big data, storage, consumerization of IT, and networking. He has 15 years of venture capital experience, 10 years of operating experience and has been named to the Forbes Midas List of top 100 investors multiple times. Barry works closely with Avi Networks, MapR Technologies, Nimble Storage, Pertino, and youwho. His past investments include Pliant Technology (acquired by Sandisk), Calista Technologies (acquired by MSFT), Arbor Networks (acquired by DHR), Growth Networks (acquired by CSCO), Maker Communications (acquired post-IPO by CNXT), Metasolv Software (acquired post-IPO by ORCL), Sirocco Systems (acquired by SCMR), and Telogy Networks (acquired by TI). Prior to joining Lightspeed, Barry held executive roles in business development and general management at Cisco Systems from 1991-1997. While at Cisco, Barry established many of the company’s largest distribution channels across OEMs, Service Providers, Distributors, and VARs. He also developed Cisco’s initial M&A process and directed the first wave of acquisitions and integrations for the company.Barry holds a BA in Economics and Business from the University of California, Los Angeles and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Barry is a member of the UCLA Economics Board of Visitors.

current job

Lightspeed India Partners
Lightspeed India Partners

Barry Eggers

Peter Nieh
Peter Nieh

Peter Nieh

Peter is a Partner and Co-Founder of Lightspeed, and covers software, mobile and cleantech. He has been working in the venture capital industry since 1995. Peter’s current investments include 99Bill, BloomReach, CoalTek, Five Stars, Leyden Energy, LS9, MyBuys, Nest, QuantumScape, Skyfire and Stion. He was also responsible for several investments which have had successful exits including Blue Nile (NILE), Celequest (acquired by Cognos), DoubleClick (acquired by Google, post IPO), Extensity (acquired by Infor, post IPO), Informatica (INFA), Kiva Software (acquired by Netscape), Phone.com (OPWV), PSS System (acquired by IBM) and TimesTen (acquired by Oracle). Prior to Lightspeed, Peter worked in business development and product marketing at General Magic, a startup that before the emergence of the Web, pioneered the development of e-commerce and electronic media services by partnering with the world’s largest telecommunications service providers and consumer electronics companies. He also managed Acer’s portable PC business in North America, where he launched the company’s first laptop PCs. Before Acer, Peter was a strategy consultant at Bain & Company and worked predominately with high-technology clients on product, sales and distribution strategies. While an undergraduate at Stanford University, he worked at Apple Computer, where he helped to develop the power management system for Apple’s first portable computer. Peter holds a BS in Electrical Engineering, an AB in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

current job

Lightspeed Venture Partners
Lightspeed Venture Partners

Peter Nieh

Ravi Mhatre
Ravi Mhatre

Ravi Mhatre

Ravi is a Partner of Lightspeed and focuses on investments in enterprise IT, mobility, and Internet and cloud-based services and applications. Ravi has 17 years of venture capital experience and before entering venture capital he ran a product management group at Silicon Graphics and also worked in management consulting at Booz Allen and as a software engineer for BDIS, a Silicon Valley biotech instruments manufacturer. His current investments include Nutanix, Appdynamics, Natera, Mulesoft, Sailpoint, Edgespring, TheFind and Kixeye. He has also served as a board member or board observer for numerous successful venture-backed companies including net.Genesis (NTGX), Verio (VRIO), Riverbed (RVBD), Lifeminders (LFMN), Kosmix (acquired by Walmart), TutorVista (acquired by Pearson), Virsa (acquired by SAP), Waveset (acquired by Oracle), Rapsphere (acquired by Appsense), Masergy (acquired by Abry) and Webspective (acquired by Inktomi), and has been recognized on the Forbes Midas List of top venture capital investors. Ravi has also served on the Board of Directors of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs Forum) in Silicon Valley, as a VC advisory board member to DeVenCI, the Department of Defense’s start-up technology acquisition forum, and as a judge for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year competition. Ravi holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Clever
Clever

count Of Investments

2

count Of Exists

1

Ravi Mhatre

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Eric Wayman

Eric Wayman

Senior Staff Data Scientist

Justin Overdorff

Justin Overdorff

Partner

Angela Sibley

Angela Sibley

Partner

Brian Hollins

Brian Hollins

Summer Investment Associate

Pachara Lawjindakul

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Peter Steinle

Peter Steinle

Partner, Executive Talent

Therence Bois

Therence Bois

Investment Scout

Akshay Bhushan

Akshay Bhushan

Partner

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