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Lightspeed
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“So you did get some money from Lightspeed – Right?”
From Jay Chaudhry“The first round came – actually it was led by [RS AMC 34:20], and Lightspeed came along with that.”
From Jay Chaudhry“The company was PSS Systems. It was backed by Lightspeed.”
From Deidre Paknad“So, obviously here on the business, you had people like Khosla, Lightspeed, Battery.”
From Mohit Aron“The guy who seeded us from there, then moved to Lightspeed. He then convinced Lightspeed that this is a great team and a great technology to look at.”
From Mohit Aron“So, Lightspeed came knocking, and they liked us so much that they didn't even give us a chance to take our pitch to other VCs.”
From Mohit Aron“Then Series B, we raised at less than six to eight months after that with Lightspeed, 10.5 million.”
From Sacha Labourey“Then Series B, we raised at less than six to eight months after that with Lightspeed, 10.5 million.”
From Sacha Labourey“Like, for example, in our business day we have folks like Lightspeed, Excel, and others.”
From Sanjay Beri“So, even when you think about our A, when you think about our B with Lightspeed, I got to know them many years ahead like through business, through building my network in the Valley so that when you look across at somebody, an investor across the table, you are trusting them with your future and being on your board, and they're trusting you.”
From Sanjay Beri“In my Series B and C, I brought in Lightspeed and then Excel, two of the best, in my view, investors in the Valley.”
From Sanjay Beri“I know that there are a lot of people here that are listening and wondering how did Sanjay, how was he able to land people like Excel, Lightspeed, social capital, and so forth.”
From Sanjay Beri“Then all of the sudden, you decide to step down and go to Lightspeed Ventures to become their entrepreneur-in-residence.”
From Ajeet Singh“Lightspeed was a Citibank investor in Nutanix.”
From Ajeet Singh“So, what were you doing there as an entrepreneur-in-residency in LightSpeed Ventures?”
From Ajeet Singh“The time that I spent as an EIR at Lightspeed was to really evaluate various markets that might be available.”
From Ajeet Singh“I have [21:02] coming from Lightspeed, who has, right now, such unique visibility on all of the B2B companies, the most exciting companies that are out there in the market, and see how they’re affected by the crisis.”
From Ariel Cohen“The investors that you had were really impressive: Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, Greylock, Battery, IVP, or even General Atlantic.”
From Jyoti Bansal“That is where our Series A was done by Lightspeed and Norvasc.”
From Bob“There, you start looking at – you've got Sequoia, Battery, Benchmark, Lightspeed, and many which come to the table.”
From Bob“That is what led us to settle on Series A with Lightspeed, Norvasc, Series B with Google Ventures, and Series C with Kleiner Perkins.”
From Bob“We are backed by some of the top tier VC firms in the Valley: Charles River Ventures, Norwest, IVP, Lightspeed.”
From Ashish Thusoo“The other people, the cap table is pretty cool. You have JMI Equity, General Atlantic, Lightspeed, and then also T. Rowe Price.”
From Doug Winter“In fact, even in this last round, Pete was instrumental in introducing us to the folks at Lightspeed actually.”
From Doug Winter“GA also introduced us to some folks at Lightspeed.”
From Doug Winter“So, all the sudden, Lightspeed who we really hadn't been talking with was suddenly interested and showed up and ended up being one of the ones that we went with.”
From Doug Winter“You got Sequoia, Lightspeed, Bain.”
From Uploaded - Dealmakers - Richie Serna“even our larger investor, which is Lightspeed, obviously a great shop, and Jeremy Lu, who is on the board of many companies, including he is on our board”
From Zuben Mathews“Yeah, ultimately, we raised, I think four rounds of venture funding in that business: Lightspeed, Khosla Ventures, GGV Capital, and VantagePoint.”
From Max Simkoff“But, yeah, we were closing our Series A with Lightspeed.”
From Max Simkoff
