Lightspeed Venture Partners

Founded 2018 Status Private Leadership Ken Chong - Founder & CEO Matt Sawchuk - Co-Founder LSVP Investment 2018 Stage Invested Seed Lightspeed Team Alex Taussig - Board Partner Jarvie is an AI assistant for group chats. Add Jarvie to any iMessage chat and the whole group gets an agentic boost, helping coordinate dinner, organize trips, summarize the conversation, look up info, and more.

Status Private Leadership Ofer Ben Gal - Co-Founder Yoss Gottlieb - Co-Founder Oren Elias - Co-Founder Lightspeed Team Yoni Cheifetz - Partner RiverPool is building the next generation of AI-powered data infrastructure, helping organizations reimagine how they interact with their data warehouses. Our platform combines modern data architectures, AI, and agentic workflows to enable teams to unlock business value from their data faster and more effectively.

Founded 2024 Status Private Leadership Shay Shwartz - Co-Founder & CEO Oran Moyal - Co-founder & CTO LSVP Investment 2026 Stage Invested Series A Lightspeed Team David Gussarsky - Partner Ocean is an agentic email security platform built for the era of AI-powered attacks. The platform uses a network of AI agents to investigate every email in real time, analyzing behavior, validating intent, and uncovering hidden threats that traditional email security tools miss.

Founded 2025 Status Private Leadership Syed Ali - Co-Founder & CEO Akhil Mantripragada - Co-founder & CTO LSVP Investment 2026 Stage Invested Series A Lightspeed Team Aaron Frank - Partner Pie is an AI-powered platform that helps small businesses grow autonomously. Pie helps owners show up where high-intent customers are already looking, on Google Maps, Yelp, Nextdoor, and AI platforms like ChatGPT and Gemini.

Pie Co-Founders Syed Ali and Akhil Mantripragada. Ask anyone who runs a small business what they want, and the answer is almost always the same. Customers, customers, customers. More people walking in or calling to book. It’s the center of their job, and it’s the part they get the least help with. Small businesses aren’t a side story in the economy.

Founded 2024 Status Private Leadership Ankur Shah - Co-Founder & CEO Sreenath Kurupati - Co-founder & CTO LSVP Investment 2024 Stage Invested Seed Lightspeed Team Bucky Moore - Partner Guru Chahal - Partner Arif Janmohamed - Partner Straiker is an AI-native security company building what it calls the first platform purpose-built to protect enterprise AI applications and autonomous agents.

Brian Kelly is an Operating Partner at Lightspeed, where he works with early- and growth-stage portfolio companies on their go-to-market (GTM) challenges, which often determine whether a strong product becomes a breakaway company. His focus spans from hiring a first sales team and designing compensation plans to establishing a sales operating cadence and adapting GTM around the shift to consumption pricing.

As Vice President of Investor Relations, Alyssa deepens Lightspeed’s relationships with its global LP base, working to ensure capital partners are aligned with the firm’s strategy and energized by the founders and ideas Lightspeed backs. Alongside that work, she has helped design the firm’s responsible investing practices, thinking carefully about how Lightspeed shows up as a long-term partner, not just a fund manager. Alyssa’s path to IR wasn’t a straight line.

Founded 2025 Status Private Leadership Mayank Mardia - Co-Founder & CEO Thomas Shouler - Co-founder & CTO Sohum Daftary - Co-founder & President LSVP Investment 2026 Stage Invested Seed Lightspeed Team Isaac Kim - Partner Amish Desai - Partner Raviraj Jain - Partner Naveed Matinfar - Partner Mark Sui - Partner Lina Zhuo - Partner Eagle exists to unleash engineering for the physical world.

Founded 2019 Status Private Leadership Shragie Lichtenstein - Co-Founder & CEO YeTong Shao - Co-Founder LSVP Investment 2019 Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is creating the best rent payment experience. It’s hard to believe that it’s 2026 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult. We’re here to change that! Flex enables our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget.