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Eve Legal - Revolutionizing Plaintiff Law

Jan 16, 2025 | lsvp.com | James Ephrati |Mark Xu

Every year, law firms process millions of complex legal documents, handling everything from personal injury to employment disputes and civil rights violations. Attorneys and their staff spend countless hours reviewing records, drafting demands, preparing discovery responses, and managing case documentation — time that could be better spent advocating for their clients.
Table22: Growing the Pie for America's Food & Beverage Merchants

Oct 29, 2024 | lsvp.com | Alex Taussig

Today, Lightspeed is announcing our Series A investment in Table22, a novel e-commerce enablement platform that helps the food and beverage industry unlock profitable new revenue streams and better monetize their brands. Over the last decade, hundreds of billions in market capitalization have been created by enabling restaurants to serve food to customers in a more convenient way.
AI Will Eat Services

Oct 4, 2024 | lsvp.com | Dev Khare

PCs, the Internet and Smartphones all changed how work is done, and expanded the TAM for software to nearly $1Tn. Today, AI is rapidly expanding the TAM for software from productivity enhancement to the work itself, opening up a TAM that’s over $10Tn. This will lead to new types of business models, like cloud led to SaaS, or the internet led to social media companies.
Why Lightspeed backed Physics Wallah

Oct 4, 2024 | lsvp.com | Dev Khare

Shreyam and I met Alakh and Prateek of Physics Wallah at their NOIDA office in 2023. Their down-to-earth nature and connection with their student community was and is palpable. They are truly their students’ advocates. Based on years of posting Youtube videos and this intense focus on students, Alakh and team have built the PW community into 45 million+ subscribers on 100+ channels, growing 100% annually, a massive advantage in the market.
Why Lightspeed backed Qure in healthcare+AI

Oct 4, 2024 | lsvp.com | Dev Khare

Here at Lightspeed, we are super excited to partner with Prashant Warier and his team at Qure.ai in this growth round of financing. The company has been innovating since 2016 and has really hit another gear in the past three years. We are also excited to partner in the round with investors such as Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, Novo Nordisk, Fractal, Healthquad, Kae Capital and 360 One.
Investing in Avarra: Transforming Enterprise with Human-like Avatars

Oct 3, 2024 | lsvp.com | Arif Janmohamed

We are living through one of the most consequential times in technology history. It’s now accepted that AI will dramatically impact the way we work, live, and play. When historians look back on this period, they will likely describe how technology enabled “magical” experiences and transformed businesses and their internal processes. At Lightspeed, we are lucky to see history in the making and work with some of the most imaginative and innovative founders who are shaping the future.
The Future of Voice: Our Thoughts On How It Will Transform Conversational AI

Sep 26, 2024 | lsvp.com | Lisa Han

Enterprise Partner Lisa Han delves into why LLMs and multi-modal chatbots are the next leap forward in the evolution of voice. A little over a decade ago, the movie Her introduced us to Samantha, an AI-powered operating system whose human companion falls in love with her through the sound of her voice. Back in 2013, this felt like science fiction–maybe even fantasy. But today, it looks more like a product road map.
How private market transactions can help sustain companies for the long haul

Jun 14, 2024 | lsvp.com | Michael Romano

Faction Ventures, LLC (“Faction”) and Lightspeed Management Company, L.L.C. (“Lightspeed”) are separate businesses that operate independently of each other. Faction is a registered investment adviser under the United States Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended. Faction advises its own fund(s) and does not advise any Lightspeed clients, and Lightspeed does not advise Faction or any of its clients.
Scrut Automation: Bringing GRC automation to the mid-market

May 16, 2024 | lsvp.com | Dev Khare

I was first introduced to Aayush over Zoom on the drive from Koramangala to Bengaluru airport. We were nearing the end of 2021, and Rohit at Darwinbox insisted we meet Aayush. The video call was patchy but Aayush pitched his three-month-old business with HD clarity. He saw businesses caught in a maze of tools for managing information security.
Locking Down the Future: Rubrik Rings the NYSE Bell for Data Security

Apr 25, 2024 | lsvp.com | Ravi Mhatre

While the market navigates questions over when the IPO window will open and which companies are ready to go public, Lightspeed has maintained our faith in a strategy that has served us for the past two decades: focusing on the long term and investing in deep partnerships with exceptional founders to build enduring success that transcends short-term market fluctuations, because we know that winning companies are measured in decades, not quarters.