2000 founder chris schaepe barry eggers ravi mhatre and peter nieh headquarters sand hill road menlo park california united states key people andrew moley arif janmohamed barry eggers bejul somaia bipul sinha chris schaepe david dubick david gussarsky jeremy liew john vrionis justin caldbeck peter nieh ravi mhatre yoni cheifetz total assets over 3 billion website www.lsvp.com lightspeed venture partners is a venture capital firm focusing on early and expansion stage investments in the consumer enterprise technology and cleantech markets . 1 lightspeed venture partners has backed more than 200 companies including brocade brcd 2 doubleclick acquired by google after going public nicira acquired by vmware 3 playdom acquired dis 4 pliant technology acquired sandisk 5 xtremeio acquired emc 6 blue nile nile 7 fusion io fio 7 phone.com opwv 8 informatica infa and solazyme szym . 9 the fund has 24 early stage enterprise investments that have gone public the most of any fund in the world . lightspeed venture partners invests in the u.s. and internationally with investment professionals and advisors in silicon valley india israel and china with lightspeed china partners . the team is currently investing out of lightspeed x a 1 billion fund . 10 contents 1 history 2 significant investments 3 summer fellowship program 4 references 5 external links history edit the firm was founded in october 2000 by chris schaepe barry eggers ravi mhatre and peter nieh . all four were formerly a part of the investment firm weiss peck & greer and left to start lightspeed following the sale of the investment management business to robeco . in 2014 lightspeed closed lightspeed x a 1 billion fund focused on the enterprise consumer and cleantech markets . today the firm has over 3 billion in committed capital . 11 in march 2016 lightspeed raised two new funds totaling in 1.2 billion . 12 significant investments edit nicira acquired by vmware for 1.26 b fusion io nyse fio linkamedia acquired by sk hynix xtremeio acquired by emc pliant technology acquired by sandisk riverbed nasdaq rvbd playdom acquired by disney kosmix acquired by walmart flixster acquired by warner brothers serious business acquired by zynga tutorvista acquired by pearson ciena nasdaq cien informatica nasdaq infa doubleclick acquired by google post ipo ehealth nasdaq ehth bluenile nasdaq nile beme 2.6 m july 28 2015 brocade nasdaq brcd virsa acquired by sap avamar acquired by emc rubrik timesten acquired by oracle telogy acquired by texas instruments kiva software acquired by netscape growth networks acquired by cisco waveset acquired by sun microsystems terayon nasdaq tern liveprofile acquired by blackberry snapchat 485k in march 2012 whisper 3m in april 2013 ripple labs takipi code de bugging solution 15m in april 2016 13 percolate 40m in may 2015 14 summer fellowship program edit every year lightspeed offers summer fellowships to support entrepreneurship and innovation among highly motivated engineering and computer science students . weekly speakers and angel investors are brought in to share their insights and offer further advice about the start up experience . 2015 will be the program s 9th year running . notable participants of lightspeed s fellowship program include ben silberman founder and ceo of pinterest and bobby murphy founder and cto of snapchat . 15 references edit crunchbase . retrieved 2013 02 25 . crunchbase . retrieved 2013 02 25 . vmware buys nicira for 1.26 billion and gives more clues about cloud strategy . retrieved 2013 02 25 . disney buys social game firm playdom for up to 763.2 m . retrieved 2013 02 25 . pliant technology receives 8 million in series a funding . retrieved 2013 02 25 . xtremio adds lightspeed venture partners to series b funding for scale out enterprise flash storage array . retrieved 2013 02 25 . a b crunchbase lightspeed venture partners . retrieved 2013 02 25 . crunchbase lightspeed venture partners . retrieved 2013 02 25 . who wins in the solazyme ipo . retrieved 2013 02 25 . bloomberg lightspeed raising 875m for u.s. china funds . retrieved 2013 02 25 . business insider how to remain king of the world amidst titanic disruptions . retrieved 2013 02 25 . loizos connie . lightspeed venture partners raises 1.2 billion . techcrunch . retrieved 2016 04 05 . http fortune.com 2016 04 20 term sheet wednesday april 20 fortune percolate a marketing software startup raises 40 million to make the cmos life simpler the lightspeed summer fellowship program explained . retrieved 2013 02 25 . external links edit lightspeed venture partners company website lightspeed venture partners blog wordpress company blog v t e private equity and venture capital investment firms investment strategy venture growth mezzanine secondaries leveraged buyout history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s investors angel investor 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