Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 13, 2014

Congratulations to Tony Fadell, Matt Rogers and the world class team at Nest! As investors in the company since the early days, we here at Lightspeed have been honored to be a partner of Nest. Nest is a very special company with a truly exceptional team… a VC’s dream. There was no hesitation from my partnership.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2016

Tal and his team were charged with mobilizing the Autodesk application, which was no easy task. Lightspeed is excited to announce that we are leading Takipi’s $15M Series B financing to help the company accelerate investments in sales, marketing and R&D. Arif Janmohamed is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

AI – Israel-1, a super computer developed by Nvidia in Israel, is now available for use by the company’s research and development teams and “selected partners,” and is housed in Nvidia’s Israel data center.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 3, 2013

At Lightspeed we have been investing thematically in each of these trends, having led early investments in cloud companies like AppDynamics and Mulesoft , in Big Data Companies like DataStax and MapR Technologies , and in enterprise mobile companies like Rapsphere (acquired by AppSense) and Push Computing.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. As part of the Lightspeed Venture Partner Summer Fellowship program, I ask guest speakers to come in each week and talk to the Fellows about key topics related to building a successful startup. ” The type of leadership technology companies need changes as they grow.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

The path that led Aaron Batalion to join Lightspeed as my partner, focusing on consumer investments, is one of those relationship driven stories. A year later and the Hungry Machine team had one of the top apps on Facebook, a social network for book lovers called Visual Bookshelf. We were able to invest!

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

The path that led Aaron Batalion to join Lightspeed as my partner, focusing on consumer investments, is one of those relationship driven stories. A year later and the Hungry Machine team had one of the top apps on Facebook, a social network for book lovers called Visual Bookshelf. We were able to invest!

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View from Seed

MARCH 4, 2020

I think part of the reason for this large number of Sequoia partners is due to the increase in team size as the firm has expanded significantly across geography and stage. Most of the remainder are funds that are less than 20 years old, such as General Catalyst, Lightspeed, Founders Fund, and A16Z.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. This journey is what investors want to understand, it matches how valuations increase, AND it enables the team to focus on a limited set of interim goals. As a prospective investor, I absolutely need to hear that the ultimate plan is take Paris, but tell me what your Normandy is.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MARCH 24, 2015

A market size of epic proportions, a groundbreaking architectural approach, and a world-class founding team drove our decision to invest. A World-Class Team. When Lightspeed invests in companies, we look for people with the potential to be world-class entrepreneurs. A $47 Billion Data Management Market.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 4, 2016

In his previous role as a product exec at Playdom (also a Lightspeed company), Rajeev scaled his team from 0 to 100 employees and realized quickly that the existing range of HR solutions were outdated, hard to use and did not actually help with talent management, rather they helped with HR process management.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 1, 2013

Lightspeed would like to congratulate the entire Natera team on their bold vision and tremendous success to date. Natera is completely changing that model by enabling physicians to uncover highly accurate clinical information and data through a simple blood draw as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 19, 2018

Why Corporate Innovation Fails Design Sprints Done Right: Creating Lasting Change User-centered design is critical in making or breaking consumer technologies, but sometimes, on small product teams, day-to-day needs can get in the way of larger, longer term goals and solutions that resonate with your customer can’t manage to get off the launch pad.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round, while Sequoia Capital and Jason Calacanis also got in on the action. John Vrionis of Lightspeed Venture Partners will join Riptano’s board. The company said they will use the cash to hire developers and further build out their business team to better serve their customers.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

There are funds who are ambitious and getting there — some names which come to mind are Felicis, Forerunner, Slow, Initialized, and a few others who have smartly scaled their team and AUM. Harry interviews Barry Eggers , one of the four co-founders of Lightspeed. It is really hard, though.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. congrats to Fortress IQ on its $12mm Series A led by Lightspeed and a stealth co on their $13.5mm Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners. In startup board rooms all across the United States, founders and investors are asking how do we keep scaling our teams?

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

With a small team and no marketing support, the company has created 14 top-selling titles for iOS and Android including Wheels on the Bus, Old MacDonald, Itsy Bitsy Spider and Fish School, all of which have earned top spots in the app store. If you found this post interesting follow Lightspeed on Twitter @lightspeedvp.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir, Addepar and Formation8) kicked off a meaningful conversation with us on building multi-billion dollar businesses in big data at one of our recent Lightspeed Dinner Series events this week. Lightspeed Dinner Series on Big Data with Joe Lonsdale from Formation 8. Smart Enterprise, 2.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

I know the team over (Nate Redmond, John Babcock) there really well – great people all. Jeremy Liew, a respected VC from LightSpeed, obviously saw the change to ramp up sales. Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners (Jeremy Liew) (lead), with existing investors Polaris Venture Partners, Crosscut Ventures. 13mm in Series B.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 24, 2013

Lightspeed is excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for our Summer Fellowship Program. The program is designed to be a unique opportunity for student led teams to spend the summer experiencing what it is like to build a company with resources, mentorship and guidance from our team.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

My old friend Krishna Gade and his new co-founder, Amit Paka, were teaming up to build a new startup in one of the most exciting technology spaces out there today — artificial intelligence. And, a few months after that, we heard the other founder came up with a new idea , and we had to scramble to chase him down. I’m glad we did.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MARCH 11, 2013

Last week, Lightspeed Venture Partners and the Amazon Web Services team brought together top technologists, startups, students, former Lightspeed Summer Fellows and venture capitalists to discuss how big data trends are impacting companies today.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 28, 2016

At Lightspeed Venture Partners, I have the privilege to coach our portfolio startups on their go-to-market strategies and connect them with CXOs from Fortune 1000 enterprises. Below are some of the best practices I have witnessed and preached to my teams to effectively prepare for a sales pitch: Research, Research, Research.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

You may augment this by bringing on talent to your firm, but you will need more assets and a budget to grow your team with non-investment partners. Doing that well certainly requires good to great fund management techniques. And, it will take a long time to learn and master those.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

If you watch the show you’ll hear a great story about how this team got their start by hijacking data from stars on the red carpet at the Oscars. Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. If you want the easy version you can read that story here !

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 5, 2016

At Lightspeed we invest in the entrepreneur and the first thing we do is install a Batphone. The Batphone model has been in place at Lightspeed for decades — since our inception. With this in mind, I’m thrilled to welcome both Brian Kasser and Meredith Kendall to Lightspeed — two fantastic individuals who are true builders.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? In it he separates web consumers into: Time Rich (more time than money) and Time Poor (more money than time).

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Haystack

OCTOBER 23, 2018

raised their Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz (this comes after the Series A led by Lightspeed, where I am a Venture Partner, a few years back). I am not surprised that today, he is making a big announcement for the company’s new financing round — People.ai You can and should read about what People.ai

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 12, 2011

There’s been some great discussions recently about the Lightspeed Summer Program ( [link] ) and at several of the sessions over the weekend at the Stanford E-Boot Camp ( [link] so I thought I’d do a quick post to help answer some of the recurring questions. The Lightspeed Summer Program is NOT an incubator, nor was it ever intended to be.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JULY 15, 2013

Lightspeed invested in Bloomreach and Peter Nieh joined the board in 2010 before I joined Lightspeed; so while I moved from Bain to Lightspeed in 2011, I have been able to continue my support for the company and track their tremendous growth and innovation, including the launch of Bloomreach Mobile which the company announced today: [link].

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 12, 2016

As a fan, you get to watch your favorite team add new players as they take aim at the coveted Lombardi Trophy. At Lightspeed, we have taken a similar approach to building our organization over the years. In preparation for the new fund, we have enhanced our enterprise team by adding two new partners through the draft and free agency.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

AUGUST 22, 2012

The Nutanix magic is in its’ software which is highly sophisticated and delivers the world’s first SDS (Software-defined Storage system), similar to Nicira , also a LIghtspeed portfolio company, which built the world’s first SDN (Software Defined Network system). Beyond the technology, we have been hugely impressed by the team at Nutanix.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

More recently, as I sit as a Venture Partner at Lightspeed , their franchise model across Israel, India, and China lends even more credence to the fact that consumer-level and application-grade innovation now knows no geographical boundaries.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The post Building Impactful Teams. appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 10, 2014

At Lightspeed, we believe such a confluence of macro factors is coming together to create the next big software category: Customer Success Management. And today, I am thrilled to announce Lightspeed’s investment in the leading startup in the customer success management space, Gainsight. 2014 SaaS'

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

While I don’t think founders expect a SWAT team to show up and build their startup with them, they do expect some high-leverage support in business development, executive recruiting, and capital formation. Depending on where you sit, it makes sense or is a recipe for disaster. No doubt, a16z changed the game here.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Ajeet was a co-founder at Nutanix, one of the fastest growing enterprise infrastructure companies of the past decade, and Amit was a founding engineer of Microsoft Bing’s Search team and then spent many years at Google, leading technical teams in the AdSense Analytics group. And they raised $10.7M

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