Lightspeed Venture Partners

Venture capital firm
Menlo Park, CA

Strategy

Stages
SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
Sectors
EnterpriseAIFintechConsumerHealthcareCybersecurity
Geographies
USAMenlo Park, CA
Check size
$1M-$100M

Portfolio

10 total

Recent Investment Activity

1
DateCompanyEventAmountValuationInvestorsSource
Sep 3, 2026ProfoundSeries C$96M
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Sector / Stage Activity

By sector (portfolio)
AI infra
3 · 30%
Defense
2 · 20%
Biotech
1 · 10%
Energy/Grid
1 · 10%
Space
1 · 10%
Enterprise SaaS
1 · 10%
Fintech
1 · 10%

Co-Investors

12

Latest Pulse

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  1. Profound Raises $96M to Own AI Search AnswersProfound raised a $96 million Series C led by Lightspeed to help brands track and influence how they get cited inside AI chatbot answers, the generative engine optimization category forming as search shifts from links to answers.
  2. Straiker Raises $64M Series A to Secure the Enterprise AI Agent WorkforceStraiker, which calls itself 'the agentic security company,' raised a $64 million Series A -- bringing total funding to $85 million -- to protect the enterprise AI agents that legacy security tools were never built to govern. The round was led by Marathon Management Partners with Citi Ventures, Illuminate Financial and Workday Ventures, plus existing backers Bain Capital Ventures and Lightspeed.
  3. Patronus AI Lands $50M to Build Digital Worlds That Stress-Test AI AgentsPatronus AI raised a $50 million Series B led by Greenfield Partners, with Lightspeed, Notable Capital, Datadog and Samsung participating, bringing total funding to $70 million. The startup builds simulated digital environments -- replicas of websites and internal systems -- where AI agents are stress-tested before deployment, and counts nearly all frontier labs among its customers after 15x revenue growth.
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