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Stages:

• Early
• Expansion
• Growth

 

Industries:

Communications & Networking

Energy & Clean Tech

Information Technology

Media & Digital Media

Semiconductor

Software & Internet

Storage & Hardware

 

Description:

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage and expansion stage investments. The firm structures and participates in equity and debt financing for start-up and growth companies and also provides incubation services. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in the U.S., Asia, and Israel in a broad range of sectors, which include: Cleantech, Communications, Digital Media & Wireless, Enterprise Automation, Enterprise Infrastructure, Internet Media & Commerce, and Semiconductors. In China, the firm seeks to invest in early stage and late stage businesses. It prefers to make investments in mobile, social media, commerce, gaming, consumer web services, data center infrastructure, enterprise automation, digital media and consumer electronics, communications infrastructure technologies, networking, wireless, internet media & commerce, internet and e-commerce, semiconductors, cleantech, and other services. In India, the firm seeks to invest in advertising & media, business services, financial services, healthcare, education, and retail. The firm currently manages over $4 billion of committed capital and is currently investing out of Lightspeed XI, a $715 million fund and Lightspeed Select II, a $500 million fund. Lightspeed invests between $10 million to $25 million in growth stages in India and invests between $2 million to $10 million in early stages in India. The firm was founded in 1971 is based in Menlo Park with additional offices in Beijing, China; Shanghai, China; New Delhi, India; and Herzelia Pituach, Israel.

 

Funds:

Fund Name	Amount	Date
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