Lightspeed

Summary

Lightspeed appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1994. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the New York.

Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The high activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. When the investment is from Lightspeed the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

The current fund was established by Steve Ehrlich.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Lightspeed, startups are often financed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lerer Hippeau, GGV Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Menlo Ventures, Y Combinator, Will Smith. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital India, Greenoaks Capital.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Reservations, SEO. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Oyo Rooms, Percolate, Avi Networks. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.