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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 213 Power Law outcomes from Lightspeed Venture Partners's portfolio — 186 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 7 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in AI · Fintech · Other B2B Software; top portfolio geographies are USA · India · China. Lightspeed ranks #7 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
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.
The 213 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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USA150
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India17
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China16
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UK12
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Singapore3
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Canada3
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Israel3
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Germany2
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UAE2
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France2
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Lithuania1
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Mexico1
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AI39
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Fintech35
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Other B2B Software26
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Cybersecurity25
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eCommerce & Marketplaces15
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Marketing15
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Other12
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Biotech & Life Sciences10
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Transportation9
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Edtech8
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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 213 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 Lightspeed's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
569 founders across the 213 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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