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Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in the Enterprise, Consumer, and Health sectors. Over the past two decades, the Lightspeed team has backed hundreds of entrepreneurs and helped build more than 400 companies globally, including Snap, Affirm, Nutanix, AppDynamics, MuleSoft, OYO, Guardant, StitchFix, and GrubHub. Lightspeed and its affiliates currently manage over $10.5 Billion across the global Lightspeed platform, with investment professionals and advisors in Silicon Valley, Israel, India, China, Singapore and Europe. http://www.lsvp.com

Editors
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Alex Taussig
Partner @ Lightspeed. Current: All Day Kitchens, Archive, Daily Harvest, Faire, Found, Frubana, Muni, Outschool, Zola. Past: $TDUP, $TWOU. Writes firehose.vc.
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Jeremy Liew
overcompensating for a geeky youth
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Nicole Quinn
Investor at Lightspeed, Stanford alum, Former Consumer Analyst at Morgan Stanley and British 100m sprinter
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Meredith Kendall
Partner, Marketing @Lightspeedvp. Former Head of Comms @Hulu. Ex-Googler. Stanford alum. California girl.
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Rachel Manson
VP of Marketing at Lightspeed Venture Partners
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Jonathan Macquitty
Sector Head for Life Sciences @lightspeedvp
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Kenneth Pierce
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Lightspeed
Serving multi-stage companies on a mission to build the future. Tomorrow, Built Today. http://medium.com/lightspeed-venture-partners
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Paul Smalera
VP of Editorial at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Past: Elastic, Medium, Fast Company, Quartz, The New York Times, Reuters, Fortune, etc.
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Connor Hood
Writers
Go to the profile of Alex Taussig
Alex Taussig
Partner @ Lightspeed. Current: All Day Kitchens, Archive, Daily Harvest, Faire, Found, Frubana, Muni, Outschool, Zola. Past: $TDUP, $TWOU. Writes firehose.vc.
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Jeremy Liew
overcompensating for a geeky youth
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Meredith Kendall
Partner, Marketing @Lightspeedvp. Former Head of Comms @Hulu. Ex-Googler. Stanford alum. California girl.
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Barry Eggers
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Nakul Mandan
Founder, Audacious Ventures; Venture Partner, Lightspeed
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Peter Nieh
Technology lover and investor
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Arif Janmohamed
Venture Capitalist at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Canadian. Dad.
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Nicole Quinn
Investor at Lightspeed, Stanford alum, Former Consumer Analyst at Morgan Stanley and British 100m sprinter
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Cat Flanagan
Knowledge @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
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Ravi Mhatre
Investor and adviser to start-ups
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Will Kohler
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James Mi
Founding Partner of Lightspeed China Partners, a leading China-focused early-stage venture capital firm.
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Luke Beseda
Partner, Talent @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
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Raviraj Jain
Enterprise Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
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Merci Victoria Grace
Advisor & angel investor. Former VC at Lightspeed, former Head of Growth at Slack. Happy to help.
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Mercedes Bent
Hard work is never overrated. Always curious.
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Guru Chahal
Enterprise Partner @LightspeedVP , Founder, Product Exec. Focus: Automation, Cloud, Security, Infra, DevOps, Observability. https://linkedin.com/in/guruchahal
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Gaurav Gupta
VC @Lightspeed Venture Partners, interested in Enterprise tech. Former Product guy @Splunk, @Elastic.
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Arsham Memarzadeh
vc @lightspeedvp; @OpenViewVenture alum and advisor @CornellCVC
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Nicole North
Talent Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Empowering women and people of color. Building modern teams defining the future of tech.
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Tal Morgenstern
Partner at Lightpseed
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Lightspeed
Serving multi-stage companies on a mission to build the future. Tomorrow, Built Today. http://medium.com/lightspeed-venture-partners
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Ling Wong
Entrepreneur & Investor. Passion for creating new businesses & technologies. Board member. Wife to an amazing guy. Lives for fashion, food, travel & design.
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Nnamdi Iregbulem
Partner @lightspeedvp Dev tools, infrastructure, and ML nerd. Soft spot for devs ❤️ I write every few weeks @ http://whoisnnamdi.com
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Anoushka Vaswani
Investor @Lightspeed, @WEF shaper, @Harvard and @Columbia alum
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Connor Love
Current Lightspeed Venture Partners Fintech Geek, Past US Army, Future Wanna Be Something
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Yoni Cheifetz
Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners based in Israel.
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Yoni Cheifetz
Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
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Justin Overdorff
Fintech Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners. Previously, BizDev/Partnerships @ Stripe. Amateur mountaineer, avid adventurer and extroverted introvert.
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Kenneth Pierce
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Jonathan Macquitty
Sector Head for Life Sciences @lightspeedvp
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Galym Imanbayev
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Paul Murphy
Partner at Lightspeed, Co-founder at Katch
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Shan
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Adrian Radu
Partner @Lightspeed
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Faraz Fatemi
Consumer Partner @ Lightspeed
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James Ephrati
VC Growth at Lightspeed
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Paul Smalera
VP of Editorial at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Past: Elastic, Medium, Fast Company, Quartz, The New York Times, Reuters, Fortune, etc.
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Michael Mignano
Partner, Lightspeed. Co-Founder, Anchor. Angel investor to 50+ startups. Former head of talk audio at Spotify.
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Beth Karlsson
Mom, partner, daughter, sister and friend. HR exec and lover of all things people + culture. Books, dogs, beaches, and beverages are my favorite things.
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Vaibhav Agrawal
Partner @Lightspeedvp , two time founder, @stanfordgsb , Forbes Under 30. Former ER Doc — ER and VC more in common than you think!
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Antoine Moyroud
Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
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Moritz Baier-Lentz
Moritz Baier-Lentz is a Partner and the Head of Gaming at Lightspeed Venture Partners, a globally leading VC firm with over $18 billion under management.