Ravi Mhatre

For a long time, progress in AI has been framed as a software story. Better models, better algorithms, more data. But increasingly, the real constraint is underneath it all: how fast and how effici...

AI is the most transformative technology shift in a generation and Lightspeed has been investing behind this conviction for years, leading early and inflection growth financings for many of the wor...

AJ Congrats on raising Tenacity Capital Fund! Looking forward to seeing you build your career as an investor and working with you in your new role.

Twenty years of cybersecurity investing taught me one thing: when trust is built in from the start, transformation scales faster. AI is at the same turning point. The debate between safety and sca...

Reflection AI is tackling one of the biggest challenges in AI today. The AI frontier has become increasingly challenging to enter the market, with only a few companies having the resources to build...

Lightspeed is thrilled to have invested in Periodic Labs’s $300M seed round. This company is led by an incredible team of ex-OpenAI and DeepMind researchers, who are turning AI into an engine for s...

Thrilled to see our partner Vitaly Gudanets step into the role of Anthropic's new CISO. Vitaly’s impact on the security ecosystem is unmatched, spanning leadership roles at Netflix, Google, and no...

Congratulations to Don Burnette and the Kodiak team on their Nasdaq listing today. Lightspeed has partnered with Kodiak since seed stage in 2018 and we've been proud to watch their progress. Don ...

Congratulations to Sanjay Beri, Krishna Narayanaswamy, Ravi Ithal, Lebin Cheng, and the entire Netskope team on today’s IPO. At Lightspeed, we first partnered with Sanjay and Netskope in 2013, whe...

What has always stood out to me about Anthropic isn’t just their technology, it’s also the team behind it. Watching Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Tom Brown, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish...