🚨 We’re back with our latest Financing Spotlight! Congratulations to these Lightspeed-backed companies on their recent financings: → EvenUp an AI-powered platform turns medical docs and case files into demand packages for injury lawyers. Cc: Co-Founders Raymond Mieszaniec, Saam Mashhad, and Rami Karabibar → Farther, a rapidly growing RIA that combines expert advisors with cutting-edge technology to deliver a comprehensive, tailored wealth management experience. Cc: Co-Founders Bradley Genser and Taylor Matthews → Noetica AI, an AI-powered software platform for deal professionals to benchmark corporate debt transactions and determine whether capital markets deal terms are on or off market. cc: Co-Founders Daniel Wertman, Tom Effland, and Yoni Sebag (Jonathan)
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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, Health, and Fintech sectors. Over the past two decades, the Lightspeed team has backed hundreds of entrepreneurs and helped build more than 500 companies globally including Affirm, Carta, Cato Networks, Epic Games, Faire, Forty Seven, Guardant Health, Mulesoft, Navan, Netskope, Nutanix, Rubrik, Sharechat, Snap, Udaan, Ultima Genomics and more. Lightspeed and its global team currently manage $28B in AUM across the Lightspeed platform, with investment professionals and advisors in the U.S., Europe, India, Israel, and Southeast Asia. www.lsvp.com
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Check out part two of last week’s special quarterly episode of the Generative Now Podcast: https://spoti.fi/47ZHwaD Generative AI has quickly become a valuable copilot in both personal and professional settings, helping with routine tasks and decision-making. But looking ahead, the Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) theory suggests we could create AI agents that outperform humans in every task, from strategy to execution—at a fraction of the cost of traditional consultants. Haystack’s Founding General Partner and Lightspeed Partner, Semil Shah and Michael Mignano discuss that while some believe this future is approaching quickly, ASI remains theoretical for now, even as AI continues to reshape industries and unlock new possibilities.
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After leading their seed round, we are excited to announce that we are now leading the $22M Series A financing in Noetica AI. Data and insights are essential in capital markets deals in order to understand market terms and drive value for market participants. Noetica AI has become a leading industry platform for benchmarking deal terms. In just a year and a half since launching, Noetica AI has amassed the largest knowledge graph of terms data across public and private markets allowing deal professionals to utilize AI to quickly determine market terms for public and private deals. Congratulations to Co-Founders Daniel Wertman, Tom Effland, Yoni Sebag (Jonathan), and the entire Noetica AI team on their Series A. This new round of financing will enable the Noetica team to expand their platform and grow its customer base, providing reliable data sources for deal data across the market. Read more about the news here: https://lnkd.in/eqbPh-wN Cc: Justin Overdorff Sam Eisler
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Congratulations to David Baker, Co-Founder of Lightspeed-backed Xaira Therapeutics, on receiving the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for computational protein design. Founded in 2023, Xaira uses AI to transform drug discovery and develop new therapies for diseases with limited treatment options.
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.” The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 is about proteins, life’s ingenious chemical tools. David Baker has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures. These discoveries hold enormous potential. The diversity of life testifies to proteins’ amazing capacity as chemical tools. They control and drive all the chemical reactions that together are the basis of life. Proteins also function as hormones, signal substances, antibodies and the building blocks of different tissues. Proteins generally consist of 20 different amino acids, which can be described as life’s building blocks. In 2003, David Baker succeeded in using these blocks to design a new protein that was unlike any other protein. Since then, his research group has produced one imaginative protein creation after another, including proteins that can be used as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, nanomaterials and tiny sensors. The second discovery concerns the prediction of protein structures. In proteins, amino acids are linked together in long strings that fold up to make a three-dimensional structure, which is decisive for the protein’s function. Since the 1970s, researchers had tried to predict protein structures from amino acid sequences, but this was notoriously difficult. However, four years ago, there was a stunning breakthrough. In 2020, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper presented an AI model called AlphaFold2. With its help, they have been able to predict the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that researchers have identified. Since their breakthrough, AlphaFold2 has been used by more than two million people from 190 countries. Among a myriad of scientific applications, researchers can now better understand antibiotic resistance and create images of enzymes that can decompose plastic. Life could not exist without proteins. That we can now predict protein structures and design our own proteins confers the greatest benefit to humankind. Learn more Press release: https://bit.ly/3TM8oVs Popular information: https://bit.ly/3XYHZGp Advanced information: https://bit.ly/4ewMBta
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Mark your calendars! SnorkelCon, Lightspeed-backed Snorkel AI’s first-ever user conference, is happening on Oct 16-17, 2024 in New York City. This two-day event will highlight the Snorkel platform and how AI teams at leading brands are accelerating their path to production AI. The event is free—Register now: snkl.ai/snorkelcon-nyc
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Congratulations to the team at Lightspeed-backed EvenUp and Co-Founders Raymond Mieszaniec, Saam Mashhad, and Rami Karabibar on their $135M Series D round. For the past two decades, vertical software has focused on digitizing traditional tasks. Now, genAI is stepping in to take over many of those functions, and EvenUp is leading this shift in the legal sector. By automating legal research, investigation, and drafting, EvenUp is reducing the labor intensity involved in providing legal services. Their AI model, Pial, is central to the platform, offering various tools to assist case managers and attorneys in preparation and negotiations. By effectively managing unstructured data, such as medical records and injury cases, EvenUp streamlines workflows and enables law firms to scale operations without needing to hire additional staff. Read more about EvenUp and their mission to level the playing field in personal injury cases: https://lnkd.in/gSX3J7Na Cc: Sebastian Duesterhoeft, Raviraj Jain
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Here it is, another round of our Financing Spotlight! Congratulations to these Lightspeed-backed companies on their recent financings: → Eon.io, a next-generation cloud backup solution that introduces the first backup autopilot for cloud infrastructure. Cc: Co-Founders Ofir Ehrlich, Gonen Stein, and Ron Kimchi → Air Doctor, provides a global medical network and makes it accessible for anyone looking for private medical care while traveling abroad. Cc: Co-Founders Jenny Cohen Derfler, Yam Derfler, Yegor Kurbachev, and Efrat Sagi-Ofir → Avarra, an enterprise AI-simulation that delivers realistic 3D AI avatars trained from transcripts and best practice playbooks that accurately simulate customer sales calls. Co-Founders David Knight, Matt Huang, Scot McIntosh, and Christopher Iezzoni
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Congratulations to the Avarra team on securing $8M in seed funding. Lightspeed is proud to be leading this round and be a part of this journey.
With $8M in seed funding secured, @Avarra has emerged from stealth, launching the industry’s first AI-avatar-based enterprise application. A major accomplishment for Co-Founders David Knight Matt Huang Scot McIntosh Christopher Iezzoni and the entire team! Their new platform is transforming how sales teams get up to speed. With the help of large-language models and 3D avatars, it recreates real customer meetings, giving reps hands-on practice and tailored coaching. This approach gets them up to speed in weeks, not months, without putting real prospects at risk. Lightspeed is proud to be part of this journey and lead the seed round. Read more on our blog: https://lnkd.in/gG8vnsXW
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This week, Michael Mignano is joined by Semil Shah, Haystack’s Founding General Partner and Venture Partner at Lightspeed for a special quarterly episode of the Generative Now Podcast. They discuss how, in today’s seed investment landscape, startups often fall into one of three conceptual 'buckets' based on their relationship with AI: AI-native, AI-adjacent, or AI-integrated. While this isn’t a formal framework, it provides a helpful way for entrepreneurs to position their companies in a way that resonates with investors. Choosing the right category can strengthen investor confidence and increase the chances of raising a successful round. Watch the full episode and don’t miss part two of their conversation coming next week: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3ZMSqyb Apple: https://apple.co/3zGvh67 YouTube: https://bit.ly/3zLhtqU
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At Mantis Venture Capital, our LA Tech Week Closeout Event has always been about building real, meaningful connections. This year, we’re excited to co-host with our friends at Lightspeed and bring together founders, investors, and innovators in the tech space. If you’re looking to network and celebrate with some of the brightest minds in the industry, register for the event to join us on Friday, October 18th. A big thank you to our sponsors: SVB, PwC, Goodwin, Carta, and Google Cloud. If this sounds like your kind of event, hit the link below and register on the Luma event page —we’d love to see you there! https://lu.ma/s56vp3er
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