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Lightspeed
Food · Montreal, Canada · Founded 2005 · IPO 2019
Talent graph
Lightspeed's talent
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Lightspeed mafia
Startups founded by Lightspeed alumni
Former Lightspeed employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Chris DefourCanada
Stein van MaasakkerNetherlands
Jan HollezBelgium
Kevin FalkCanada
Manouk DraismaNetherlands
Olivia SkuzaUnited States
Jasper LammertinkNetherlands
Ruud StelderNetherlands
Jonathan MuschalleCanada
Zhong XuBelgiumGlobal footprint
Where Lightspeed has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$2M patent portfolio · 5 active families
Where Lightspeed concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Lightspeed and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Lightspeed's 36 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Lightspeed appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2013–2025. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
36 deals across Lightspeed's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
02 · Portfolio market map
Lightspeed's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Lightspeed
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Lightspeed on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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