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Lightspeed Venture Partners stages, portfolio and investment profile
Global venture firm founded in 2000 with a major New York office, investing from seed through growth in consumer, enterprise software, media, and AI—early backer of Snap, Affirm, and Grubhub.
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Stage-based planning range
$1M–$10M
This is a planning range inferred from stage coverage, not a firm-disclosed check size.
Methodology: Stage bucket inferred from the rounds a fund leads or invests in.
No firm-specific check-size disclosure is recorded.
Investment stages
Leads: Series A, Series B+
Participates: Seed, Series A, Series B+
Sector focus
Not recorded
Geography
500 W 34th St, New York, NY 10001
Founded 2000
Fund size / AUM
Not recorded
A separate fund-size evidence record is not yet available.
Portfolio in our directory
49
Linked startup profiles
Latest fund vehicle
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Vehicle name, size, and vintage are not yet structured.
Recent tracked investment
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No dated round explicitly links this fund.
Rounds they lead
Rounds they invest
Last verified: Not recorded. Check-size evidence is labeled by basis so planning estimates are not presented as firm disclosures.
Portfolio companies we track
Startups in our directory that list Lightspeed Venture Partners as an investor (24 total).
- Abridge AI medical scribe capturing clinician-patient conversations into structured EHR notes.
- Affirm Public buy-now-pay-later lender founded by Max Levchin (NASDAQ: AFRM).
- Airbound Bengaluru startup building rocket-like VTOL delivery drones aiming for truck-cost aerial logistics.
- Alchemy Blockchain developer platform (node/API infrastructure) for web3 builders.
- Alpha-9 Oncology Clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company developing targeted cancer therapies.
- Amca Integrated aerospace and defense manufacturing platform for critical components.
- Anthropic AI safety company building Claude frontier models, API, and enterprise agents for coding and knowledge work.
- Arena AI evaluation platform behind Chatbot Arena / LMArena leaderboards.
- Arimo Behavioral AI and predictive analytics for IoT and enterprise data (formerly Adatao).
- Backbone Systems Clinical AI layer automating healthcare payments, prior auth, and claim correctness for payers and providers.
- Barefoot Networks Programmable Ethernet switch ASICs and P4 networking software for data centers.
- Base Power U.S.-made residential batteries and energy plans that aggregate into a virtual power plant — grid flexibility at the edge of the home.
- Believer Game studio building a next-gen open-world multiplayer IP from former Riot executives.
- Blend Labs Digital lending platform for mortgages and consumer banking (NYSE: BLND).
- Bromium Micro-virtualization endpoint security isolating browser and app threats.
- Castelion Hypersonic strike missiles built for industrial-rate output, starting with Blackbeard.
- ClickUp All-in-one work OS combining docs, tasks, goals, whiteboards, and chat in one productivity platform.
- Cyera Data-security trust layer for enterprise AI — DSPM, DLP, and agentic access control across cloud and SaaS.
- Delphix Database virtualization and test data management (acquired by Perforce, 2024).
- Eco Digital wallet and savings platform with crypto-linked rewards.
- Eve AI operating system for plaintiff law firms from intake through settlement.
- Everyrealm Metaverse real-estate investor and developer across NFT game worlds.
- Exa AI-native web search API built for developers and AI agents, not traditional search portals.
- Faraway Browser-based multiplayer games with player-owned economies on Solana.
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