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Lightspeed Venture Partners

Venture capital firm · Menlo Park, USA · Founded 2000 · Active in 2026

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199 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #23 · 199 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Enterprise value ↑ 139% 5y
$3.0T
Unicorns ↑ 56% 5y
179
Decacorns ↑ 69% 5y
27
Thoroughbreds ↑ 48% 5y
186
Featured in #23Power Law Investor Ranking · Global · 2026 Top 0.5%by Seed → $100M+ revenue outcomes

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, USA, founded in 2000. The page below shows 199 Power Law outcomes from Lightspeed Venture Partners's portfolio — 179 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 7 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · AI · Cybersecurity; top portfolio geographies are USA · India · China. Lightspeed ranks #23 globally in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Ranking by Seed → $100M+ revenue companies.

Portfolio analysis

The 199 Lightspeed Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue and above).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA143
  2. India15
  3. China14
  4. UK10
  5. Israel3
  6. Singapore3
  7. UAE2
  8. France2
  9. Germany2
  10. Canada2
  11. Mexico1
  12. Sweden1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech34
  2. AI33
  3. Cybersecurity25
  4. Other B2B Software24
  5. Marketing15
  6. eCommerce & Marketplaces15
  7. Other12
  8. Biotech & Life Sciences9
  9. Edtech9
  10. Transportation8
  11. Health Tech & Medtech7
  12. Energy4
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+104
  2. Series A63
  3. Seed24
01 · Portfolio market map

Lightspeed's 199 Power Law outcomes.

Toggle between a sector landscape and a world map. Both views respond to the stage and outcome-tier filters. The faded names at the bottom of bigger boxes are part of the full list — click "+ N more" to reveal them.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
199 of 199 Power Law outcomes
Logos hosted by Dealroom; click any chip to open the company in app.dealroom.co. The dot inside each chip shows the company's highest tier — red Gigacorn, violet Centicorn/Decacorn, lavender Unicorn, blue Thoroughbred, green Colt. Tiers are inclusive: a Unicorn (e.g. Klarna) also matches the Thoroughbred filter, a Decacorn also matches Unicorn and Thoroughbred, and so on up the ladder. Colt is a separate axis (high-growth, smaller revenue) and only matches itself. Map dots use the same colour code; hover for details. Sectors are mutually exclusive (priority-ordered classification). Stage entered = the round Lightspeed first invested in (where data is available — coverage 93%).
02 · Origin of portfolio founders

Where Lightspeed's founders come from — and where they study.

567 founders across the 199 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.

LocationCount
United States175
India110
China51
Israel36
France26
Germany16
Canada13
Russia12
Poland6
Sweden5
+20 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University62
Carnegie Mellon University12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology10
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi9
Berkeley9
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras8
University of Cambridge8
Harvard University8
Stanford University Graduate School of Business8
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur7
+170 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google57
Microsoft41
Meta26
Apple12
Google DeepMind12
OpenAI12
Palantir11
Yahoo!10
Amazon8
Uber8
+179 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company. Explore the full Sequoia infographic on Thoroughbreds & Unicorns →
03 · Key people

Key people at Lightspeed.

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04 · Compare with peers

How does Lightspeed stack up?

Lightspeed in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — filter by region 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 global unicorns minted that year — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Share of new unicorns per year

% of all global unicorns minted that year, year by year
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.

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Data as of 15 Apr 2026 · Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset · Methodology
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