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Michael Mignano

As seen in: Medium, Business Insider, Fast Company, Substack, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Every, HotelExecutive, Fast Company Middle East
General Partner @USV. Co-Founder Anchor (acquired by Spotify) and @OboeLabs. Early investor in @meetgranola, @suno, @xai, others.
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The Future of Market Research is Autonomous: Our Investment in Dialogue

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By Faraz Fatemi, Michael Mignano, Bejul Somaia
| Lightspeed Venture Partners
For decades, technology companies have competed on who could build the fastest, racing to release features, ship code, and launch products. But in this AI-native era of technology, the differentiator isn’t just speed to building — more than ever it is speed to understanding. Market research has long been the domain of large companies with big budgets and long timelines.
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The End of Micromanagement

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By Michael Mignano, Faraz Fatemi
| Lightspeed Venture Partners
Today, Lightspeed is announcing that we’re leading a $30M Series A in Macroscope, an AI-powered understanding engine for teams. Founded by Kayvon Beykpour, Joe Bernstein, and Rob Bishop, Macroscope is leveraging AI to help teams of all sizes better understand and fix their codebase, enabling them to cancel meetings, file fewer JIRA tickets, and get back to building.
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Game Changers Is Back-Nominate Gaming, Media, and AI Startups!

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By Moritz Baier-Lentz, Paul Murphy Verified, Faraz Fatemi, Michael Mignano
| Lightspeed Venture Partners
The Game Changers 2026 theme is “building through chaos.” From mass layoffs, budget cuts, and economic headwinds to shifting global policies, the gaming & interactive media industry is weathering continued volatility. At the same time, generative AI, extended reality, and other emerging technologies are giving rise to unprecedented opportunities to create previously impossible experiences.
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