Lightspeed Venture Partners

Companies on Anchor Terminal

• 1Password Funding round, January 2022

  • 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP BB · Secrets & credential vaults

  Source 1password.com/blog/…

• First Mile Group, Inc. (Alloy) Series C, September 2021, Series C extension, September 2022, led a round

  • Alloy D · Identity & business verification

  Source alloy.com/about/press/…

• Anthropic Series E, March 2025, Series F, September 2025, Series G, February 2026, Series H, May 2026, led a round

  • Claude API BB · Model APIs & inference
  • Claude Agent SDK BB · Agent frameworks & SDKs
  • Claude Code C · Agent harnesses

  Source anthropic.com/news/…

• Harness (formerly Augment Code) Series B, April 2024

  • Auggie CLI D · Agent harnesses

  Source augmentcode.com/blog/…

• Cartesia Seed, December 2024, through Lightspeed

  • Cartesia Ink B · Speech-to-text
  • Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP B · Text-to-speech
  • Cartesia Voice Cloning API + MCP C · Voice cloning & custom voices

  Source cartesia.ai/blog/seed

• Celeris (Marqo Inc)

  • Celeris-1 Decision D · Decision models

  Source celeris.ai/about

• Anthropic, PBC Series E, March 2025, Series F, September 2025, Series G, February 2026, Series H, May 2026, led a round

  • Claude Duet F · Personal assistants

  Source anthropic.com/news/…

• ClickHouse Series B, October 2021, Series C, May 2025, Series D, January 2026, through Lightspeed

  • ClickHouse MCP Server B · Databases & files

  Source clickhouse.com/blog/…

• Mango Technologies, Inc. DBA ClickUp Series C, October 2021

  • ClickUp C · Project & task management

  Source clickup.com/blog/series-c

• Composio Series A, 2025, through Lightspeed India Partners

  • Composio (API + MCP) A · Agent tool access

  Source lsvp.com/company/composio

• Descope Seed, February 2023, Seed extension, September 2025, led a round

  • Descope Agentic Identity Hub A · Agent auth & delegated access

  Source descope.com/press-release/…

• Cognition AI, Inc. Series E, September 2026, through Lightspeed

  • Devin C · Agent harnesses

  Source cognition.com/blog/series-e

• ElevenLabs Series D, February 2026, Employee tender offer, September 2026

  • ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP BB · Conversational voice agents
  • ElevenLabs Music API B · Music generation
  • ElevenLabs Scribe Speech to Text API B · Speech-to-text
  • ElevenLabs Text to Speech API + MCP BB · Text-to-speech
  • ElevenLabs Voice Cloning and Voice Design API BB · Voice cloning & custom voices

  Source elevenlabs.io/blog/tender-22bn

• Exa Seed and Series A, July 2024, Series B, September 2025, led a round

  • Exa API + MCP B · Web search APIs

  Source exa.ai/blog/series-a

• Fireworks AI Series C, October 2025, Series D, July 2026, led a round

  • Fireworks AI Fine-tuning C · Fine-tuning

  Source orrick.com/en/news/2025/11/…

• Fireworks.ai, Inc. Series C, October 2025, Series D, July 2026, led a round

  • Fireworks AI Inference BB · Model APIs & inference

  Source orrick.com/en/news/2025/11/…

• Glean Technologies, Inc. Series D, February 2024, Series E, September 2024, Series F, June 2025, led a round

  • Glean B · Company knowledge & data catalogues

  Source glean.com/press/…

• Grafana Labs Series A, October 2019, Series B, August 2020, Series C, August 2021, Series D, April 2022, Series D extension, August 2024, Secondary, September 2025, led a round

  • Grafana MCP Server BB · Observability & incidents

  Source grafana.com/press/2019/10/24/…

• Granola, Inc. Series A, October 2024, Series C, March 2026, through Lightspeed

  • Granola C · Meeting capture & meeting infrastructure

  Source granola.ai/blog/series-a

• Langfuse (ClickHouse) Seed, November 2023

  • Langfuse API + MCP BB · Agent observability & evals

  Source langfuse.com/blog/…

• Mistral AI Series C, September 2025, through Lightspeed

  • Mistral AI API BB · Model APIs & inference
  • Mistral Embed and Codestral Embed C · Embeddings & rerankers
  • Mistral Moderation API C · Guardrails & safety filters
  • Mistral OCR API C · Document parsing & extraction
  • Mistral Vibe CLI B · Agent harnesses
  • Mistral Voxtral Transcribe B · Speech-to-text
  • Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 C · Speech-to-text

  Source mistral.ai/news/…

• Agent Paid Limited Seed, September 2025, led a round

  • Paid C · Payment & monetisation platforms

  Source paid.ai/blog/…

• Payhawk Limited Series B extension, March 2022, led a round

  • Payhawk API + MCP C · Spend management & procurement

  Source payhawk.com/blog/…

• Pika (Mellis, Inc.) Series B, June 2024

  • Pika API D · Video generation

  Source maginative.com/article/…

• Reflection through Lightspeed

  • Beam 1.0 D · Model APIs & inference
  • Mirror CLI C · Agent harnesses

  Source reflection.ai/blog/…

• Stability AI $101M round, October 2022, Investment round, June 2024, led a round

  • Stability AI Image API E · Image generation
  • Stable Audio API D · Music generation

  Source stability.ai/news-updates/…

• Supabase Series B, May 2022, through Lightspeed

  • Supabase API + MCP BB · Databases & files

  Source supabase.com/blog/…

• Teller Seed, reported January 2020

  • Teller E · Bank data & open banking

  Source techcrunch.com/2020/01/27/teller

• Temporal Technologies Series D, February 2026, Series E, September 2026, led a round, through Lightspeed

  • Temporal A · Human approval & handoff

  Source temporal.io/news/…

• Turnkey Global, Inc. Series A, April 2024, Series B, June 2025, led a round, through Lightspeed Faction

  • Turnkey Agentic Wallets BB · Agent wallets & spending controls

  Source turnkey.com/blog/…

• WorkOS Series A, announced March 2021, Series B, June 2022, through Lightspeed Ventures

  • WorkOS Pipes and Agents C · Agent auth & delegated access

  Source workos.com/blog/series-b

• Zo Computer Company through Lightspeed

  • Zo Computer E · Personal assistants

  Source zo.computer/team

Where they invest

Agent harnesses 5 Model APIs & inference 4 Speech-to-text 4 Text-to-speech 2 Voice cloning & custom voices 2 Personal assistants 2 Databases & files 2 Agent auth & delegated access 2 Music generation 2 Secrets & credential vaults 1 Identity & business verification 1 Agent frameworks & SDKs 1 Decision models 1 Project & task management 1 Agent tool access 1 Conversational voice agents 1 Web search APIs 1 Fine-tuning 1 Company knowledge & data catalogues 1 Observability & incidents 1 Meeting capture & meeting infrastructure 1 Agent observability & evals 1 Embeddings & rerankers 1 Guardrails & safety filters 1 Document parsing & extraction 1 Payment & monetisation platforms 1 Spend management & procurement 1 Video generation 1 Image generation 1 Bank data & open banking 1 Human approval & handoff 1 Agent wallets & spending controls 1

Founders they backed

• Sara Teare 1Password
• Dave Teare 1Password
• Roustem Karimov 1Password
• Natalia Karimov 1Password
• Tommy Nicholas First Mile Group, Inc. (Alloy)
• Laura Spiekerman First Mile Group, Inc. (Alloy)
• Charles Hearn First Mile Group, Inc. (Alloy)
• Scott Clark First Mile Group, Inc. (Alloy)
• Dario Amodei Anthropic
• Daniela Amodei Anthropic
• Tom Brown Anthropic
• Jack Clark Anthropic
• Jared Kaplan Anthropic
• Sam McCandlish Anthropic
• Chris Olah Anthropic
• Igor Ostrovsky Harness (formerly Augment Code)
• Guy Gur-Ari Harness (formerly Augment Code)
• Karan Goel Cartesia
• Albert Gu Cartesia
• Arjun Desai Cartesia
• Brandon Yang Cartesia
• Tom Hamer Celeris (Marqo Inc)
• Jesse Clark Celeris (Marqo Inc)
• Karan Ahuja Anthropic, PBC
• Aaron Katz ClickHouse
• Alexey Milovidov ClickHouse
• Yury Izrailevsky ClickHouse
• Soham Ganatra Composio
• Karan Vaidya Composio
• Slavik Markovich Descope
• Rishi Bhargava Descope
• Dan Sarel Descope
• Guy Rinat Descope
• Aviad Lichtenstadt Descope
• Doron Sharon Descope
• Meir Wahnon Descope
• Gilad Shriki Descope
• Scott Wu Cognition AI, Inc.
• Steven Hao Cognition AI, Inc.
• Walden Yan Cognition AI, Inc.
• Mati Staniszewski ElevenLabs
• Piotr Dąbkowski ElevenLabs
• William Bryk Exa
• Jeffrey Wang Exa
• Lin Qiao Fireworks AI, Fireworks.ai, Inc.
• Benny Chen Fireworks AI, Fireworks.ai, Inc.
• Dmytro Dzhulgakov Fireworks AI, Fireworks.ai, Inc.
• Pawel Garbacki Fireworks AI, Fireworks.ai, Inc.
• Dmytro Ivchenko Fireworks AI, Fireworks.ai, Inc.
• James Reed Fireworks AI, Fireworks.ai, Inc.
• Chenyu Zhao Fireworks AI, Fireworks.ai, Inc.
• Arvind Jain Glean Technologies, Inc.
• T.R. Vishwanath Glean Technologies, Inc.
• Tony Gentilcore Glean Technologies, Inc.
• Raj Dutt Grafana Labs
• Anthony Woods Grafana Labs
• Torkel Ödegaard Grafana Labs
• Marc Klingen Langfuse (ClickHouse)
• Maximilian Deichmann Langfuse (ClickHouse)
• Clemens Rawert Langfuse (ClickHouse)
• Arthur Mensch Mistral AI
• Guillaume Lample Mistral AI
• Timothee Lacroix Mistral AI
• Manny Medina Agent Paid Limited
• Manoj Ganapathy Agent Paid Limited
• Raj Dosanjh Agent Paid Limited
• Hristo Borisov Payhawk Limited
• Konstantin Dzhengozov Payhawk Limited
• Boyko Karadzhov Payhawk Limited
• Demi Guo Pika (Mellis, Inc.)
• Chenlin Meng Pika (Mellis, Inc.)
• Emad Mostaque Stability AI
• Paul Copplestone Supabase
• Ant Wilson Supabase
• Stevie Graham Teller
• Samar Abbas Temporal Technologies
• Maxim Fateev Temporal Technologies
• Bryce Ferguson Turnkey Global, Inc.
• Jack Kearney Turnkey Global, Inc.
• Michael Grinich WorkOS
• Rob Cheung Zo Computer Company
• Ben Guo Zo Computer Company

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