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Lightspeed Venture Partners
Venture capital firm · Founded 2000 · Active in 2026
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, USA, founded in 2000. The page below shows 212 Power Law outcomes from Lightspeed Venture Partners's portfolio — 186 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 8 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in AI · Fintech · Cybersecurity; top portfolio geographies are USA · India · China. Lightspeed ranks #7 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Sequoia’s biggest exits.
Sequoia portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
The 212 Lightspeed Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA148
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India16
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China15
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UK13
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Israel3
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Canada3
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Singapore3
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Germany2
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UAE2
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France2
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Ireland1
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Mexico1
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AI38
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Fintech34
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Cybersecurity26
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Other B2B Software25
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Marketing15
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eCommerce & Marketplaces15
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Other12
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Biotech & Life Sciences10
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Transportation9
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Edtech9
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Health Tech & Medtech8
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Energy5
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Series B+105
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Series A64
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Seed25
Lightspeed’s biggest current holdings.
An estimate of Lightspeed’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 69 companies where Lightspeed is a named shareholder, worth about $20.6B in estimated equity value.
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1
Mistral AI
10.5%
$13.8B
$1.4B
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2
Blockchain.com
14%
$7.0B
$980M
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3
Skild
6.5%
$14.0B
$910M
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4
Grafana Labs
15%
$6.0B
$900M
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5
ThoughtSpot
20%
$4.2B
$840M
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6
Helsing
4.5%
$18.0B
$810M
- 7 15% $4.8B $720M
- 8 40% $1.8B $720M
- 9 7% $9.4B $659M
- 10 5.2% $12.6B $655M
- 11 7.5% $8.0B $600M
- 12 12.4% $4.7B $583M
Showing the 12 largest of 69 disclosed direct holdings.
6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Lightspeed’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Lightspeed also appears inside investor groups in CertiK, Chainguard, LayerZero, Ramp, Ripple, Zepto, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
Lightspeed’s biggest exits.
Lightspeed portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
+17 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.
Lightspeed's 212 Power Law outcomes.
How does Lightspeed stack up?
Lightspeed in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by selected outcome stageSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsBeyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds
% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
547 founders across the 212 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Lightspeed.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Lightspeed Venture Partners
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
In the news
Latest news about Lightspeed Venture Partners
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Lightspeed — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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