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Name: Lightspeed Venture Partners
Industries: Venture Capital
Headquarters: 2200 Sand Hill Rd.
Menlo Park, CA 94025
United States
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Lightspeed Venture Partners is a leading global venture capital firm that manages over $2 billion of capital commitments. We closed Lightspeed VIII, an $800 million fund, in early 2008. Over the past two decades, our investment professionals have backed more than 150 companies, many of which have gone on to become leaders in their respective industries. Our team invests in the U.S. and internationally, with investment professionals and advisors located in Silicon Valley, China, India, and Israel.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a leading global venture capital firm that manages over $2 billion of capital commitments. We closed Lightspeed VIII, an $800 million fund, in early 2008. Over the past two decades, our investment professionals have backed more than 150 companies, many of which have gone on to become leaders in their respective industries. Our team invests in the U.S. and internationally, with investment professionals and advisors located in Silicon Valley, China, India, and Israel.

We are proud to have partnered with many exceptional management teams. Our investment professionals have contributed domain expertise and operational experience to help build high-growth, market-leading companies such as Blue Nile (NILE), Brocade (BRCD), Calista (acquired by MSFT), Ciena (CIEN), DoubleClick (DCLK), eHealth (EHTH), Galileo Technology (acquired by MRVL), Growth Networks (acquired by CSCO), Informatica (INFA), Kiva Software (acquired by AOL), Lightlogic (acquired by INTC), Maker Communications (acquired by CNXT), Metasolv (acquired by ORCL), Openwave (OPWV), Quantum Effect Devices (acquired by PMCS), Sirocco (acquired by SCMR), and Waveset (acquired by SUNW). Some of our recent exits include the top-performing tech IPO of 2006, Riverbed Technology (RVBD), and the top enterprise software acquisition of 2006, Virsa Systems (acquired by SAP).

While the majority of our portfolio companies are U.S.-based, the Lightspeed team has invested internationally for over ten years in companies such as 99Bill, AMEC, Galileo Technology, Optier, ScaleMP and TutorVista. The firm has also launched the Lightspeed-Gemini Internet Lab, a joint initiative with Gemini Israel Funds to seed Israel-based Internet companies.
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1257336 3/18/10:
Playdom Backs MetroGames
Playdom, a Mountain View, Calif.-based social gaming company, has invested $5 million into Argentina-based social gaming company MetroGames. Playdom last year raised a $43 million Series A round at around a $300 million post-money valuation, from New Enterprise Associates, Lightspeed Venture Partners ... - read more at Private Equity Hub
1246982 3/16/10:
VCs Stuff More Companies Into IPO Pipeline
Financial Engines priced its IPO above range last night, and just closed its first day of trading up nearly 44 percent. It was the fifth VC-backed IPO to price in 2010, and the third to do so since we last looked at the VC-backed IPO pipeline (the others were pharma companies AVEO and Anthera). There ... - read more at Private Equity Hub
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1235824 3/15/10:
Gina Bianchini is stepping down as CEO of Ning, in order to become an entrepreneur-in-residence with venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. The news was first reported by All Things D. Bianchini is a co-founder of Ning, which offers an online platform for people who want to create their own social ... - read more at Private Equity Hub
1223316 3/11/10:
GamesBeat 2010 in pictures – Part 4
An exciting part of GamesBeat 2010 was the ‘Who's Got Game?' contest. Five selected finalists presented their company onstage while the all-star panel of judges evaluated them. [9 photos; photos by JP Manninen] At GamesBeat 2010, it was all about stepping up to the mic, and, stepping up. Who's ... - read more at VentureBeat
1220941 3/11/10:
More Speakers, Venue Set for Inside Social Apps 2010 – April ...
April 20 | San Francisco Inside Social Apps 2010, our first conference on the future of monetization on social platforms, is now only a few weeks away. On April 20th in San Francisco, one day before Facebook's official “f8″ event, many of the leading developers from around the world will ... - read more at Inside Facebook
1217769 3/10/10:
Turiya Media wins Who's Got Game startup competition
Turiya Media, which helps game publishers mine and analyze user data, was just selected as the top startup in the Who's Got Game Competition at our GamesBeat@GDC event in San Francisco. The company says its Leafnode product uses advanced predictive algorithms to track hours of logged time by individual ... - read more at V entureBeat
1215806 3/10/10:
Chinese Chipmaker Raises $46 Million
Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc., a Shanghai-based developer of plasma etching and chemical vapor deposition equipment for use in semiconductor fabs, has raised $46 million in Series D funding. Shanghai Venture Capital Co. Ltd. and Shanghai Pudong Science & Technology Investment Co. were ... - read more at Private Equity Hub
1212713 3/10/10:
RockYou's Deal of the Day is new way to monetize social games ...
As Facebook has moved away from letting app developers spam users in their apps, RockYou has had to adjust its business away from purely viral apps such as hugs or gifts. And one of its great new schemes to keep Facebook users engaged in its apps is the Deal of the Day. This promotion is a special offer ... - read more at VentureBeat
1205457 3/9/10:
Revised video game financing list: 115 game companies raised ...
[Update: We've added our list with new fundings we've heard about from readers and Engage Digital Media]. Game startups continued to score big investments in 2009, but the amount of money raised in the year fell considerably compared to 2008. We'll be discussing the funding levels at our GamesBeat@GDC ... - read more at VentureBeat
1198018 3/8/10:
Broadcom Buys VC-Backed Teknovus
Broadcom Corp. has acquired Teknovus Inc., a Petaluma, Calif.-based provider of broadband-access semiconductor chipsets, for $123 million in cash. Teknovus had raised around $66 million in VC funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Galleon Crossover Funds, Vision Venture Capital, Technology Alliance ... - read more at Private Equity Hub
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