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Lightspeed Venture Partners

Venture Capital · Founded 2000 · Menlo Park, United States

#7 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 0.1% of investors worldwide

A multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in the Enterprise, Consumer, Health, and Fintech sectors

961 Portfolio companies+52% in 5 years
203 Unicorns
41 Decacorns
1,753 Investments
Aug 2026 Last investment
02 · Biggest holdings

Lightspeed Venture Partners’ biggest current holdings.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a named shareholder in 69 companies. Dealroom estimates those stakes are worth about $21.0B in total — the disclosed percentage × each company’s latest valuation. The 12 biggest are below, each sized by that estimate.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 Mistral AIEnterprise Software · Decacorn 10.5% $13.8B $1.4B
  2. 2 Blockchain.comFintech · Unicorn 14% $7.0B $980M
  3. 3 SkildRobotics · Decacorn 6.5% $14.0B $910M
  4. 4 Grafana LabsEnterprise Software · Unicorn 15% $6.0B $900M
  5. 5 ThoughtSpotEnterprise Software · Unicorn 20% $4.2B $840M
  6. 6 HelsingSecurity · Decacorn 4.5% $18.0B $810M
  7. 7 15% $4.8B $720M
  8. 8 40% $1.8B $720M
  9. 9 7% $9.4B $659M
  10. 10 5.2% $12.6B $655M
  11. 11 7.5% $8.0B $600M
  12. 12 3.8% $15.5B $589M

Showing the 12 largest of 69 disclosed direct holdings.

6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Lightspeed Venture Partners’ disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Lightspeed Venture Partners also appears inside investor groups in CertiK, Chainguard, LayerZero, Ramp, Ripple, Zepto, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →

03 · Exits

Lightspeed Venture Partners’ biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Lightspeed Venture Partners’ transaction record.

$3.8B IPO · 2009
Now $2.1TTelecom
$53B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $59BTelecom
AMEC
$2.3B IPO · 2019
Entered Series ANow $47BSemiconductors
$1.8B IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $46BHealth
$40B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $11BFood
$33B IPO · 2017
Entered SeedNow $11BMedia
$32B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+Security
$15B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $32BFintech
$1.9B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $26BSecurity
$1.6B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $22BHealth
$6.6B IPO · 2024
Entered Series ANow $18BEnterprise Software
$2.2B IPO · 2016
Entered Series ANow $16BSecurity
04 · Portfolio analysis

Where Lightspeed Venture Partners’ portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 961 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA741
  2. China96
  3. India94
  4. Israel36
  5. UK32
  6. Singapore21
  7. Germany17
  8. Indonesia9
  9. Canada8
  10. France7
  11. Mexico4
  12. Brazil3
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software274
  2. Fintech171
  3. Health100
  4. Media90
  5. Marketing89
  6. Security86
  7. Transportation43
  8. Education42
  9. Telecom39
  10. Food34
  11. Gaming34
  12. Energy31
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series A377
  2. Seed320
  3. Series B+255
By growth stageCount
  1. Breakout Stage411
  2. Late Growth363
  3. Early Growth324
  4. Mature11
05 · Portfolio market map

Inside Lightspeed Venture Partners’ portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 961 tracked.

Anthropic
Enterprise Software · Centicorn
$965B
xAI
Enterprise Software · Centicorn
$250B
Intel Corporation
Semiconductors · Centicorn
$534B
Anduril
Security · Decacorn
$61B
Grab
Food · Decacorn
$11B
Epic Games
Gaming · Decacorn
$18B
Meituan
Telecom · Decacorn
$59B
Byju's
Education
$100M
Reflection AI
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$8.0B
OYO
Travel · Unicorn
$3.8B
Helsing
Security · Decacorn
$18B
Safe Superintelligence
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$32B
Mistral AI
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$14B
Ramp
Fintech · Decacorn
$44B
Aurora
Robotics · Decacorn
$13B
Snap
Media · Decacorn
$11B
Saronic Technologies
Robotics · Unicorn
$9.3B
Zepto
Food
$400M
XPeng
Energy · Decacorn
$14B
Cyera
Security · Decacorn
$12B
Base Power
Energy · Decacorn
$13B
Udaan
Hosting · Unicorn
$1.8B
Wiz
Security · Decacorn
$32B
Telegram
Media · Unicorn
$4.8B
Skild
Robotics · Decacorn
$14B
FTX
Fintech
Fireworks AI
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$18B
Whatnot
Media · Decacorn
$20B
Faire
Home Living · Decacorn
$13B
ShareChat
Media · Unicorn
$5.0B
Helion Energy
Energy · Decacorn
$16B
Netskope
Security · Unicorn
$5.7B
Neuralink
Health · Unicorn
$9.7B
Neko Health
Health · Unicorn
$7.0B
Navan
Travel · Unicorn
$6.9B
Affirm
Fintech · Decacorn
$32B
Cato Networks
Security · Unicorn
$4.8B
Carta
Legal · Unicorn
$7.4B
Ineffable Intelligence
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$5.1B
QuantumScape
Energy · Unicorn
$3.0B
Physical Intelligence
Robotics · Unicorn
$5.6B
ClickHouse
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$15B
Xaira Therapeutics
Health · Unicorn
$2.7B
Supabase
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$11B
K2 Space
Space · Unicorn
$6.8B
LivingSocial
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.5B
1Password
Security · Unicorn
$6.8B
Arctic Wolf Networks
Security · Unicorn
$4.3B
Chainguard
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$3.5B
Zetwerk
Robotics · Unicorn
$4.0B
Weee!
Food · Unicorn
$4.1B
Plus
Transportation · Unicorn
$1.5B
Grafana Labs
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$6.0B
Glean
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$7.2B
Ripple
Fintech · Decacorn
$40B
ElevenLabs
Media · Decacorn
$11B
Odyssey Therapeutics
Health
$724M
Suno
Music · Unicorn
$5.4B
Personio
Jobs Recruitment · Unicorn
$5.0B
Bitmain
Fintech · Decacorn
$15B
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Lightspeed Venture Partners’ portfolio founders come from.

200 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. United States122
  2. India17
  3. Germany13
  4. Canada9
  5. China9
  6. Israel6
  7. France4
  8. United Kingdom4
  9. Singapore3
  10. Argentina2
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University17
  2. Harvard University12
  3. Carnegie Mellon University9
  4. University of California, Berkeley9
  5. Tsinghua University6
  6. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi5
  7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology5
  8. Columbia University4
  9. Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur4
  10. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem4
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google20
  2. Microsoft18
  3. Meta8
  4. McKinsey & Company7
  5. Google DeepMind6
  6. OpenAI6
  7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology5
  8. Palantir5
  9. Stanford University5
  10. ITC4