Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive inventions and trends in the Enterprise, Consumer, and Healthcare sectors. The Lightspeed team has funded hundreds of entrepreneurs and helped grow over 400 businesses across the world, including Snap, Affirm, Nest, Nutanix, AppDynamics, MuleSoft, OYO, Guardant, and GrubHub, over the last two decades. With investment specialists and advisers in Silicon Valley, Israel, India, China, Southeast Asia, and Europe, Lightspeed and its affiliates presently manage $10.5 billion throughout the worldwide Lightspeed platform. Over the past two decades, the firm has backed more than 400 companies, including Snapchat, Affirm, MuleSoft, and AppDynamics.‍

Enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social are among the sectors in which Lightspeed Venture Partners invests. It primarily invests in the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India, among other nations.

The company was created in 2000 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with operations in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Herzelia Pituach, Israel.