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Adil has spent over two decades at private markets investment firms: both making investments and partnering with the institutions that fund them. He brings that perspective to Lightspeed as Partner and Head of Capital Partnerships, focused on building and deepening the firm’s partnerships with its global clients and partners. He was drawn to Lightspeed’s “builder” culture, and the firm’s authentic desire to partner more closely with our clients and partners.

Strict pass rate versus mean cost per run for the 11 frontier models tested in Financial Audit Bench. Source: Modus Labs. As more audit firms are putting AI agents to work, the question they keep running into is simple: which parts of an audit can an agent do well? Until now, there was no shared way to answer it. Vendors could point to hours saved, but no one could point to a consistent way to verify whether the work was accurate.

Steven came to Lightspeed with a specific conviction he wanted to put to work: That AI could reshape huge parts of the services economy. As he developed that thesis, a friend of a friend introduced him to Amish Desai. One conversation led to many, and ultimately Steven joined the firm’s Applied AI team. Today, he focuses on the intersection of AI and services.

Depth is our center of gravity. It’s how we build and maintain a mastery that enables unwavering conviction in the companies we back. Our depth of commitment means rolling up our sleeves to earn our seat at the table. Depth of relationships means authenticity, transparency and trust. And depth of belief means navigating the peaks and valleys together, regardless of how the terrain unfolds.

Depth is our center of gravity. It’s how we build and maintain a mastery that enables unwavering conviction in the companies we back. Our depth of commitment means rolling up our sleeves to earn our seat at the table. Depth of relationships means authenticity, transparency and trust. And depth of belief means navigating the peaks and valleys together, regardless of how the terrain unfolds.

Anatomy is on a mission to automate financial workflows for healthcare. A significant share of provider payments and remittances still arrive on paper, and because banking and practice management systems typically sit in separate silos, providers can struggle to see which insurance revenue has been paid and which needs follow-up.

In Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens, he explains that from a genetic and intellectual perspective, humans are much closer to our chimpanzee ancestors than we might like to admit; indeed, we share approximately 98.8% of our DNA. On an individual basis, Harari explains, prehistoric humans were “insignificant animals with no more impact on their environment than gorillas, fireflies or jellyfish.” How, then, did humanity so completely change its relationship with the world around it?

Raindrop Co-Founders pictured left to right: Zubin Koticha, Ben Hylak, and Alexis Gauba. In December 2025, we led Raindrop’s seed round on a simple thesis: as agents become the predominant form of software, observability has to fundamentally change. The company predicted that traditional evals would give way to production monitoring that surfaces the failures humans — or even traditional monitoring tools — would miss.

Santiago “Santi” Nestares boarded a flight, opened his laptop, and finished a project for a customer during his flight. Fairly typical behavior for a startup founder, except the project was an end-to-end enterprise resource planning (ERP) migration. Using Starlink, Santi completed the whole thing before wheels touched down: bank connections, integrations, and books reconciled to the penny.

Founded 2026 Status Private Leadership Nir Zuk - Founder and CEO Udi Shamir - Co-founder and Chief Architect Wilson Xu - Co-founder and Chief Development Officer LSVP Investment 2026 Stage Invested Growth Lightspeed Team Ravi Mhatre - Partner & Co-Founder Guru Chahal - Partner Cylake is building a complete, AI-native, data-driven cybersecurity platform for the world’s largest and most regulated institutions.