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Lightspeed is growing our Consumer Investing team

Lightspeed Venture Partners

We announced $1.2bn of committed capital in our latest fund family last month and four of us have been listed on the CB Insights/NY Times list of top 100 Venture Capitalists. His full time job is CEO of Cheddar , the OTT video company he founded, and where Lightspeed is the lead investor. It’s been an amazing ride.

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Interview with Mike Brown Jr. of AOL Ventures

The Startup Lawyer

We’re a small fund with $30M of committed capital, so we focus on Seed and Series A opportunities. We also tend to focus on repeat entrepreneurs but are not opposed to funding first time founders who have significant domain expertise. I get it, but that’s not a logical investment thesis for us to deploy capital against.