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Lightspeed Venture Partners

Venture capital firm · Founded 2000 · Active in 2026

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201 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #7 · Global · 201 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 66% 5y
184
Decacorns ↑ 80% 5y
27
Thoroughbreds ↑ 117% 5y
119

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, USA, founded in 2000. The page below shows 201 Power Law outcomes from Lightspeed Venture Partners's portfolio — 184 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 7 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.

Portfolio analysis

The 201 Lightspeed Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA144
  2. India15
  3. China14
  4. UK10
  5. Israel3
  6. Singapore3
  7. UAE2
  8. France2
  9. Germany2
  10. Canada2
  11. South Africa1
  12. Mexico1
By sectorCount
  1. AI34
  2. Fintech34
  3. Cybersecurity26
  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 A64
  3. Seed24
01 · Portfolio market map

Lightspeed's 201 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
201 of 201 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

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

571 founders across the 201 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
+21 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
+172 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.
03 · Key people

Key people at Lightspeed.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.
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 34 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.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
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.

Sentiment on X

What X 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

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