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Lightspeed Venture Partners  CERTIFIED

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Rated 2.6 / 5.0 by 38
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FIRM OVERVIEW: Large Private VC based out of Menlo Park, USA (US West)

FIRM DESCRIPTION: Lightspeed Venture Partners is a leading global venture capital firm with over $2 billion of committed capital under management. Lightspeed’s investment professionals and advisors are located in Silicon Valley, China, India and Israel. Over the past two decades, the Lightspeed team has backed more than 150 companies, many of which have become leaders in their respective markets, including Blue Nile, Brocade, Calista, Ciena, DoubleClick, eHealth, Galileo Technology, Growth Networks, Informatica, Kiva Software, LightLogic, Maker Communications, Metasolv, Openwave, Quantum Effect Devices, Riverbed, Sirocco, Virsa Systems and Waveset.

TEAM MEMBERS: Ajit Deora, Andrew Chung, Andrew Moley, Arif Janmohamed, Barry Eggers, Bejul Somaia, Chris Schaepe, David Gussarsky, Eric O'Brien, Herry Han, Jake Seid, James Mi, Jeremy Liew, Jesse Janosov, John Luongo, John Vrionis, Justin Caldbeck, Kartik Srivasta, Linus Chung, Mark He, Peter Nieh, Ravi Mhatre, Ron Cao, Sean Park, Siddharth Narayan, Srini Vudayagiri, Tony Wang, Yoni Chiefetz,

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Positive Experience When Pitching to Ravi Mhate

Fund: Lightspeed Venture Partners

Posted by playnogames on 2007-05-05

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When we pitched to Ravi, he was very engaged and efficiently came up to speed with our technology. Our technology and market is not obvious, but by the second meeting I clearly feel he understands our space by way of his follow-on intense and engaging questions. I know people have different opinions of people, but I have to honestly say that working with Ravi has been a very positive experience for me and one of the best I have had.

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Ajit Deora is a Very Good Person.

Fund: Lightspeed Venture Partners

Posted by primefactor on 2007-05-04

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Ajit Deora at Lightspeed is a genuinely nice person. He will go out of his way to help entrepreneurs as he has built companies and understands what you are going through. He is extremely sharp and gives great feedback. I highly recommend him and if you are doing something releated to wireless or web servies, do contact him.

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Have a Decision Making Problem

Fund: Lightspeed Venture Partners

Posted by Anonymous on 2007-04-02

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More heat than light

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Difficult to Work With

Fund: Lightspeed Venture Partners

Posted by Anonymous on 2007-03-28

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Some partners are difficult to work with, and require a lot of management attention for upward management of the board. Be ready to spend many cycles with them

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