Lightspeed Venture Partners

Multi-stage global firm founded 2000. Active across consumer, enterprise, and AI. Backed Snap, Grubhub, and Affirm.

· Menlo Park · Founded 2000 · AUM $25B

Investments

140

Exits

Unicorns

Recent rounds

Portfolio companies

AI safety lab building Claude — a helpful, harmless, honest AI assistant.

Make any kind of song with AI.

Date	Startup	Round	Amount	Role
Mar 3, 2025	Anthropic	Series E	$4B	Lead	Round →
Sep 2, 2024	Anthropic	Series D	$3.5B	Lead	Round →
May 21, 2024	Suno	Series B	$125M	Lead	Round →

NEA — founded 1977. Multi-stage firm with $25B AUM. Invested across enterprise SaaS, AI infra, and healthcare.

Anthropic's Series E brings the Claude maker to a new high, setting up expanded model training and enterprise distribution.

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