Lightspeed Venture Partners
Lightspeed Venture Partners is an American venture capital firm. It invests from seed stage to growth stage in enterprise, fintech, consumer and healthcare companies. The firm was founded in 2000 and has eleven offices globally.
Key facts
- Founded
- 2000source
- Founders
- Barry Eggers, Christopher Schaepe, Ravi Mhatre and Peter Niehsource
- Offices
- Eleven offices globallysource
- Assets under management
- Approximately US$35 billion (as of 2023)source
- Fundraising
- Raised $7.1 billion across four flagship funds in 2022source
- Investment stages
- Seed to Series Fsource
WYDE coverage of Lightspeed Venture Partners
WYDE Newsroom has published 4 articles about Lightspeed Venture Partners, from Jul 15, 2026 to Aug 8, 2026. Lightspeed Venture Partners is the subject of 2 stories and an investor in 2 stories. The most recent is A Judge Ordered Meta to Pay $567 Million, Another Gave HHS Until Noon, and the Farm Bill Died by One Vote. Over 63,000 Meals..
A Judge Ordered Meta to Pay $567 Million, Another Gave HHS Until Noon, and the Farm Bill Died by One Vote. Over 63,000 Meals.
WYDE Weekly: the CLARITY Act misses its Senate deadline, SNAP enrollment drops by 4 million, HHS moves to erase 1,400 Head Start rules, and researchers use AI to design 16 working viruses.
Aug 8, 2026 · 8 min read · Subject of the story
InnovationWhatnot Raises $545 Million Series G at a $20 Billion Valuation as Live Shopping Booms
The live commerce platform nearly doubled its valuation in under a year, with ICONIQ, Lightspeed and Avra leading a round that also drew Kleiner Perkins, Wellington Management and Alphabet's CapitalG.
Aug 8, 2026 · 2 min read · Investor
InnovationLightspeed Hires an Instagram Creator to Source Its Next Venture Deals
Claire Zau, a seed investor with a major following on Instagram and TikTok, joins Lightspeed Venture Partners to source deals and co-host a new show, part of a wider bet that creators build trust with founders before a check is ever written.
Aug 8, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
HealthcareDaniel Ek's Neko Health Raises $700 Million to Bring Full-Body Scans to the US
The preventive health startup raised a $700 million Series C led by Lightspeed to open its first US full-body scan clinic in New York, after more than 100,000 scans in the UK and Sweden
Jul 15, 2026 · 3 min read · Investor
Reported alongside Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Whatnot · in 2 stories with Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Arc Institute · in 1 story with Lightspeed Venture Partners
- BitGo · in 1 story with Lightspeed Venture Partners
- BNY · in 1 story with Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Circle · in 1 story with Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Galaxy · in 1 story with Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Google · in 1 story with Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Google DeepMind · in 1 story with Lightspeed Venture Partners
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