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title: "Lightspeed Venture Partners"
type: entity
entity_type: company
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/lightspeed-venture-partners
updated: 2026-10-14T21:40:01.000Z
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# Lightspeed Venture Partners

> Lightspeed Venture Partners is an American global venture capital firm founded in 2000 that invests in early-stage and growth-stage technology companies.

Source: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6546580)

Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/lightspeed-venture-partners

- **Type:** Company
- **Signals:** 5
- **First seen:** Sep 14, 2026
- **Last seen:** Oct 14, 2026
- **Also known as:** Lightspeed

## Recent signals

- [Zenzap, a private messenger with AI agents that aims to replace apps like WhatsApp in the workplace, raised $44M from Bessemer, Lightspeed, and others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/zenzap-a-private-messenger-with-ai-agents-that-aims-to-replace-apps-c1056d7a) (Oct 14, 2026)
- [Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/popular-ai-leaderboard-arena-nearly-doubles-valuation-to-3-1b-e740b411) (Oct 8, 2026)
- [AI Model Evaluator Arena Valued at Over $3 Billion in Round](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/ai-model-evaluator-arena-valued-at-over-3-billion-in-round-6b3d8c16) (Oct 8, 2026)
- [Lightspeed targets $250M for new India fund, focusing on early-stage AI](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/lightspeed-targets-250m-for-new-india-fund-focusing-on-early-stage-ai-91110a46) (Sep 25, 2026)
- [Nuance Labs, which builds low-latency AI avatars that can have face-to-face conversations, raised a $50M Series A led by Lightspeed, with Nvidia participating (Shubhangi Goel/Business Insider)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/nuance-labs-which-builds-low-latency-ai-avatars-that-can-have-face-to-ae97f63d) (Sep 14, 2026)

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