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Lightspeed Venture Partners emerged from the ashes of the dot-com bubble in 2000, founded by alumni of Weiss, Peck & Greer. Four men who once sat in the same Stanford University classrooms built the venture capital empire.
The firm broke its domestic mold in 2006 by opening its first international office in Tel-Aviv. This move was driven by the arrival of Yoni Cheifetz and signaled a shift to a global powerhouse.
Mulesoft later sold to Salesforce for 6.5 billion dollars less than a year after its 2017 IPO. Lightspeed led the Series B round for Mulesoft in 2007.
By 2022, Lightspeed had raised 7.1 billion dollars across four flagship funds. The firm also launched the Lightspeed Opportunity Fund II with 2.36 billion dollars of committed capital.
In 2011, the firm led the Series B round for Nest, a smart home device company that Google would acquire for 3.2 billion dollars in an all-cash transaction in 2014.