Veterans from Lightspeed, Krafton, Nintendo, Blizzard, Oculus, Valorant, Microsoft, Sony, Tencent, TikTok, World of Warcraft, and others rally to support a unique blend of indie innovation and AAA ambition. — Fundraising: Show, Don’t Tell Gardens’ standout financing in the current market environment allows the quality, creativity, and velocity of the team’s work to speak for itself. To kick off the fundraising round, Gardens presented a playable prototype behind closed doors at GDC 2023, receiving not only exceptional reviews from investors — but term sheets…

As the sun set over the Hudson River on June 15, an exuberant crowd of top talent was expanding their professional networks on a rooftop garden in Tribeca next door to the Jackie Robinson Museum. …

Meet the Generative Eight — and The Next Gen of AI companies building the future — Generative AI has taken the world by storm, and the companies building the future are in a race to hire the best available tech talent. No technology has more rapidly changed humans’ relationship to their tools than the sci-fi fantasy brought to reality by OpenAI’s ChatGPT: Talking to a machine…

Berry Health is a game-changing, full-stack, direct-to-consumer healthcare company, and we’re brimming with excitement today as we announce our recent investment in the company. This partnership underscores our firm commitment to backing innovative startups that are broadening the horizon of quality healthcare and redefining its delivery mechanism. Meet Berry Health…

The Developer’s Journey in a Streaming World — We’re pleased to announce that Lightspeed is leading Redpanda Data’s Series C financing. …

Why Lightspeed is investing in a leader in the carbon dioxide removal marketplace — We are excited to announce our recent UK-based investment in Supercritical, one of the leading Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) marketplaces, co-founded by Michelle You and Aaron Randall. …

Announcing Lightspeed’s Series A investment in beehiiv (And our new consumer newsletter!) — In recent years, cross-country flights have become a sort of sanctuary for us, one of the very few opportunities for heads-down productivity in the always-on-the-go world we live in today. As two of the (admittedly struggling) champions of “inbox zero”, we each dedicated a recent New York to California journey…

With a clear vision for value-based care and three distinct flywheels for growth, the company is driving a fundamental shift in the US healthcare system — When we first met Aledade, co-founder and CEO Dr. Farzad Mostashari invited us to learn about the company, but also left us with a polite, albeit straightforward warning: this is a complex business, and we’d have to put in the work to understand the opportunity. …

Founded by key members of Meta’s and Alphabet’s AI research teams, Mistral AI has closed a seed round of over €105 million, led by Lightspeed. — Mistral AI, a European start-up specializing in generative artificial intelligence, has just announced that it has closed a seed-stage financing round of over €105 million led by Lightspeed. Founded by key members of Meta’s and Alphabet’s AI research teams, Mistral AI will provide businesses the foundational technology to automate existing…