Lightspeed portfolio: 14 rounds in AI and data
Rounds where Lightspeed led or took part, newest first. Led: 4.
- doubleAI raises $200M Series A, . AI models. Led by Lightspeed, Bessemer. doubleAI develops artificial intelligence models.
- Arena raises $200M, . AI infrastructure. Led by Lightspeed, Khosla. Arena operates an AI model evaluation and alignment leaderboard.
- Emergent raises $130M Series C, . AI apps. Led by Creaegis. AI coding platform that lets small businesses and entrepreneurs build, deploy and host software apps.
- Straiker raises $64M Series A, . Security. Led by Marathon Management Partners, Citi Ventures, Illuminate Financial, Workday Ventures. Straiker discovers AI agents inside organizations, tests them adversarially before deployment and protects them at runtime.
- Suno raises $400M Series D, . AI models. Led by Bond Capital. Suno builds an AI music creation app that generates full songs from text prompts.
- Skild AI raises $1.4B Series C, . Robotics. Led by SoftBank. Builds a general-purpose robotics foundation model, the Skild Brain, that can control many kinds of robots.
- Raindrop raises $15M Seed, . Developer tools. Led by Lightspeed. Raindrop is a monitoring platform that detects silent failures in production AI agents.
- Suno raises $250M Series C, . AI models. Led by Menlo Ventures. Suno builds an AI music creation app that generates full songs from text prompts.
- Reflection raises $2B, . AI models. Builds open-weight frontier AI models as an American open alternative.
- Emergent raises $23M Series A, . Developer tools. Led by Lightspeed. Emergent is a vibe coding platform where AI agents build and deploy full applications from natural language prompts.
- Mistral AI raises a Series C round, . AI models. Led by ASML. Builds open-weight and commercial large language models for enterprises and governments.
- ClickHouse raises $350M Series C, . Databases. Led by Khosla Ventures. ClickHouse builds an open source column-oriented database for real-time analytics, offered as a managed cloud service.
- xAI raises $6B Series C, . AI models. Develops the Grok AI models and assistant and runs large GPU training clusters.
- Cartesia raises $27M Seed, . AI models. Led by Index Ventures. Cartesia builds real-time voice AI models, including low-latency text to speech, based on state space model research.