Faraz Fatemi is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners who invests in AI applications and consumer platforms (including social commerce. See contact routes.
Faraz Fatemi is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners who invests in AI applications and consumer platforms (including social commerce, gaming, and the creator economy) from seed to Series B stages, with a typical check size of $1M–$30M and a sweet spot around $10M. His distinctive thesis centers on authentic social connections in a distributed world, prioritizing companies with small but sticky evangelist user bases over early exceptional scale, while evaluating metrics like DAU/MAU ratios and bounded D30 retention. Notable portfolio companies include beehiiv (a newsletter platform), JOOPITER (an auction platform co-founded by Pharrell), and Circle Labs (an AI NPC creator).
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