Lightspeed Venture Partners AI portfolio
Rounds where Lightspeed Venture Partners led or took part, newest first. Led: 14.
- Nirva raises $33M Seed, . AI apps. Nirva develops ambient AI jewelry that listens to users to provide emotional insights.
- Raindrop raises a Series A round, . Developer tools. Led by CRV. Monitoring and simulation tools that detect failures in production AI agents.
- Profound raises $180M Series D, . AI apps. Led by Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins. Marketing software that helps brands track and improve how they appear in AI search answers.
- Temporal raises $550M Series E, . Developer tools. Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Wellington Management. Open-source durable execution platform for reliable long-running workflows and AI agents.
- Harvey raises $550M, . AI apps. Led by Diffusion, Lightspeed Venture Partners. Builds generative AI tools for law firms and in-house legal teams.
- Stability AI raises $76M Series B, . AI models. Develops generative image, audio and video models for media and entertainment.
- Oligo Security raises $60M Series C, . Security. Oligo Security provides runtime security that detects and blocks exploits in applications, cloud workloads and AI systems.
- Fireworks AI raises $1.5B Series D, . AI infrastructure. Led by Atreides Management, Index Ventures, TCV. Inference platform for running and customising open models on enterprise data.
- Patronus AI raises $50M Series B, . AI infrastructure. Led by Greenfield Partners. Builds evaluation and simulation environments for testing and training AI agents.
- Anthropic raises $65B Series H, . AI models. Led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia Capital, Capital Group, Coatue, D1 Capital Partners, GIC, ICONIQ, XN. Builds the Claude family of AI models with a focus on AI safety research.
- Profound raises $96M Series C, . AI apps. Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Profound makes software that helps brands track and improve how they appear in answers from AI search engines and chatbots.
- Temporal raises $300M Series D, . Developer tools. Led by Andreessen Horowitz. Temporal makes an open-source durable execution platform that keeps long-running application and AI agent workflows running reliably through failures.
- Anthropic raises $30B Series G, . AI models. Led by GIC, Coatue, D. E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, MGX. Builds the Claude family of AI models with a focus on AI safety research.
- ElevenLabs raises $500M Series D, . AI models. Led by Sequoia Capital. ElevenLabs develops AI voice models for text to speech, dubbing and conversational voice agents.
- Emergent raises $70M Series B, . Developer tools. Led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Khosla Ventures. Emergent is a vibe coding platform where AI agents build and deploy full applications from natural language prompts.
- ClickHouse raises $400M Series D, . Databases. Led by Dragoneer Investment Group. ClickHouse builds an open source column-oriented database for real-time analytics, offered as a managed cloud service.
- Cyera raises $400M Series F, . Security. Led by Blackstone. Cyera builds an AI-native data security platform that discovers, classifies and protects sensitive data across cloud and on-premises environments.
- Fireworks AI raises $250M Series C, . AI infrastructure. Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Evantic. Fireworks AI offers an inference cloud for running, fine-tuning and scaling open-source generative AI models.
- Anthropic raises $13B Series F, . AI models. Led by ICONIQ, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Lightspeed Venture Partners. Builds the Claude family of AI models with a focus on AI safety research.
- Cato Networks raises $359M Series G, . Security. Led by Vitruvian Partners, ION Crossover Partners. Cato Networks sells a cloud-delivered SASE platform that combines networking and security for enterprises.
- Cyera raises $540M Series E, . Security. Led by Georgian, Greenoaks, Lightspeed Venture Partners. Cyera builds an AI-native data security platform that discovers, classifies and protects sensitive data across cloud and on-premises environments.
- Glean raises $150M Series F, . AI apps. Led by Wellington Management. Offers AI powered enterprise search and assistants over a company's internal data.
- Redpanda raises $100M Series D, . Data infrastructure. Led by GV. Redpanda makes a Kafka-compatible streaming data platform for real-time applications and AI agents.
- Straiker raises $21M, . Security. Straiker provides security testing and runtime guardrails for enterprise AI applications and agents.
- Reflection raises $105M Series A, . AI models. Led by CRV, Lightspeed Venture Partners. Reflection builds open frontier AI models and autonomous coding agents.
- Anthropic raises $3.5B Series E, . AI models. Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Builds the Claude family of AI models with a focus on AI safety research.
- Abridge raises $250M Series D, . AI apps. Led by Elad Gil, IVP. Abridge makes generative AI software that turns patient and clinician conversations into clinical notes.
- Grafana Labs raises $270M Series D, . Developer tools. Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Grafana Labs builds the open source Grafana observability stack and a hosted cloud for metrics, logs and traces.
- Chainguard raises $140M Series C, . Security. Led by Redpoint Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, IVP. Chainguard provides hardened, minimal container images and open source packages to secure the software supply chain.
- Skild AI raises $300M Series A, . Robotics. Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, SoftBank Group, Bezos Expeditions. Builds a general-purpose robotics foundation model, the Skild Brain, that can control many kinds of robots.
- Stability AI raises an undisclosed round, . AI models. Builds open generative models for images, video, audio and music, including Stable Diffusion.
- Mistral AI raises $640M Series B, . AI models. Led by General Catalyst. Builds open-weight and commercial large language models for enterprises and governments.
- Patronus AI raises $17M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Notable Capital. Patronus AI builds evaluation tools and simulated environments for testing and training AI models and agents.
- Suno raises $125M, . AI models. Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Suno builds an AI music creation app that generates full songs from text prompts.
- Augment Code raises $227M Series B, . Developer tools. Makes an AI coding assistant that understands large enterprise codebases.
- Axonius raises $200M Series E, . Security. Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel. Axonius makes a cyber asset management platform that inventories devices, users and software across an organization for IT and security teams.
- Abridge raises $150M Series C, . AI apps. Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures. Abridge makes generative AI software that turns patient and clinician conversations into clinical notes.