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Possibility grows the deeper you go. Serving bold builders of the future.
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Joined July 2009
We’re proud to deepen our partnership with Lightspeed-backed @AnthropicAI in their $13B Series F financing round. From the very beginning, Anthropic has had a clear strategy: build foundation models that are safer, steerable, and more interpretable. While others chased breadth,
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→ Sphinx, an applied AI research firm building agents that redefine how machine intelligence interfaces with data. Cc: Co-Founders Rohan Kodialam and @__Jamie_B
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→ @RainCards develops and operates digital asset authorization and settlement infrastructure with payment card solutions. Cc: Co-Founders @Rooqster and @CNaut
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→ @Odyssey_Tx, creating next-generation precision medicines for patients with cancer and inflammatory diseases through a highly integrated drug hunting engine. Cc: Co-Founders Gary D. Glick, Eicke Latz, Kim Lewis, Felix Meissner, and Florian Schmidt
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→ @Nuance_AI, working to build multimodal, emotionally-intelligent conversational AI that feels as natural to engage with as a human. Cc: Co-Founders @FangchangMa and Edward Zhang
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→ @MistralAI, democratizing AI through open-source, efficient, and innovative AI models, products, and solutions. Cc: Co-Founders @ArthurMensch, @TLacroix6, and @GuillaumeLample
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→ @KetryxHQ, a complete end-to-end solution that helps regulated teams release high-quality software in healthcare, defense, aerospace, pharma, and MedTech. Cc: Co-Founders @Erez_Kaminski and @Poeschko
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→ @Keychain_AI, building intelligent infrastructure to power the next generation of consumer goods manufacturing. Cc: Co-Founders Oisin Hanrahan, Jordan Weitz, and Umang Dua
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→ @ExaAILabs, on a mission to power every AI app, indexing beyond the public web and becoming the AI world's search layer. Cc: Co-Founders @WilliamBryk and @WangzJeff
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→ @AnthropicAI, an AI company dedicated to building and researching LLM systems that are reliable, safe, and helpful. Cc: Co-Founders @DarioAmodei, @DanielaAmodei, @nottombrown, @jackclarkSF, Jared Kaplan, @samsamoa, and @ch402
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🚨Financing Spotlight Alert! Growth continues across the Lightspeed-backed portfolio. Congratulations to these companies on their recent funding:
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Authentic founder storytelling > everything else. The media game has changed. The old marketing playbook is dead and with our new CMO @machiz, we are creating a new playbook to make sure our founders and their stories are heard.
.@machiz (CMO, @lightspeedvp) on the evolving media landscape: "You guys have changed the game, like created a way for founders to tell their story in an authentic way." "We're in a new landscape of just finding ways for founders to tell their story in a compelling way."
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At #Velocity2025, you won’t just be watching innovation, you’ll experience it first-hand. 20 Lightspeed-backed companies, real-time demos, and discovery paths personalized to what you care about most. Sign up by September 15th to secure your spot for Velocity 2.0:
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today i'm joining @lightspeedvp as Chief Marketing Officer. after doing thousands of IPOs at Nasdaq and building Redpoint's exceptional platform team, i've learned: it's not just one launch video. it's the relentless drumbeat that get you heard. and that's what i'm here to
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Unfair advantage (noun): When your VC's CMO has likely taken more companies public than your competitor's entire board. @machiz → Lightspeed CMO - Executed thousands of IPOs at Nasdaq over a decade - Built Redpoint’s platform team - Created one of the most-followed VCs on IG
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Regarding the news
Cofounders @eglyman and @karimatiyeh launched @tryramp to build a more efficient generation of corporate cards. The six-year-old startup just broke $1 billion in annualized revenue in August, and it now claims more than 45,000 businesses as customers.
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Today, we announce the closing of a $213M Series D financing round. Thank you to our investors for supporting the advancement of our portfolio of clinical and preclinical medicines designed to precisely treat the drivers of complex autoimmune diseases. https://t.co/bzVOFBMGyF
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On September 30th in New York City, CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, and AI leaders will gather for an evening of connection and innovation at our flagship enterprise IT event. Connect with founders and leaders from Lightspeed-backed companies that we believe are helping define what’s next in
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Today’s AI often feels obviously artificial. They sit in the uncanny valley, answering questions but lacking the nuance of a real human conversation. Lightspeed-backed @nuance_ai is changing that by building AI with real-time social and emotional intelligence. Their models
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We’ve raised €1.7B to accelerate technological progress with AI! This Series C funding round, led by @ASMLcompany, fuels Mistral AI scientific research to keep pushing the frontier of AI to tackle the most critical technological challenges faced by strategic industries.
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