Alex Ratner Snorkel AI Arvind Jain Lightspeed Enterprise Partner, Lisa Han, joins industry luminaries Alex Ratner, CEO and Co-Founder of Snorkel AI, Arvind Jain, CEO and Founder of Glean, and Bhavin Shah, CEO and Co-Founder of Moveworks to cover topics such as:

- How AI can be a compounding advantage for…

1/4 Congratulations to @RubrikInc and @BipulSinha on today’s IPO! From an idea incubated at Lightspeed to a large-scale company to IPO - we are thankful to have been a partner since the very beginning. lsvp.com/company/rubrik/ #RubrikIPO

Lightspeed’s Alex Kayyal will talk Series A pitfalls at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 tcrn.ch/3IANfYj

Each year nearly 3M people die from workplace accidents, with another 374M injured. Today we're excited to announce our investment in intenseye as they leverage AI and computer vision to change this paradigm. 🚧🚀

Lightspeed are leading the company's $64M Series B. Here's…

We’re thrilled to announce that Abridge has completed its Series C funding, led by Lightspeed — and we are joining the board. Poised to deliver better quality of care and doctor-patient relationships, the funding will empower Abridge to fuel foundational research, and more.…

Wow, just wow. Sora is one of the most incredible product launches I’ve ever seen. I can’t wait to see what people around the world dream up now that video creation gets democratized. This will have a profound impact across so many industries

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Customer centricity has never been more important in the enterprise. To break through the noise, here are 5 first principles that we've identified at Lightspeed on the path to success for founders. 💡🚀

Check it out here: 👇
lsvp.com/why-customer-c…

My partner Lisa Han dropping some serious knowledge on what's happening across legal tech and why we Lightspeed continue to be excited by the intersection of AI and vertical applications, like legal.

More here 👇

Love this interview with Novak Djokovic on mental strength. So many parallels for founders

'I might appear maybe locked-in, but trust me, there's a storm inside. The biggest always battle is within.'

Not long ago, we announced Lightspeed led a seed investment round in Mistral AI.

Today, we're thrilled to share we've increased our ownership in this incredible company as part of a new round of Series A funding led by a16z with General Catalyst and a handful of others.

Breaking news: University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill has stepped down after criticism for what many called an inadequate response to questions about whether calls for the genocide of Jewish people would violate university policies. wapo.st/41jI47Y

Incredible. The future really is bright.

Today, Lightspeed is announcing that we’re leading a $35M Series A in Pika, the company that’s redesigning the entire video-making and editing experience with AI.

Founded by Demi Guo and Chenlin Meng, Pika is making it possible for anyone to create high quality video…

This whole saga could've and should've been avoided, but one silver lining here is the strength of the new board. Amazing choice on Bret Taylor as chair.

Very happy to see Sam Altman and Greg Brockman back. There is simply no substitute for founders running their company.

As usual, Brian Halligan dropping some real gold 👇. Great insights for founders on how to build boards and create alignment

All this talk of AI wiping humans out. Turns out the biggest threat to humans is, well, other humans…

The whiplash in public markets continues.. 🌊

Confluent down -40% due to lower guidance and slower growth 📉

Shopify up +23% on better guidance and earnings beat 📈

Predictability and forecast accuracy continues to matter more than ever in software 👀

ZoomInfo started as a data company and is adding more and more workflow capabilities on top of that data (e.g. acquisition of Chorus).

Naturally the reverse will happen too. Smart move from HubSpot to acquire Clearbit today to bring more data into their platform.

The cloud industry is going through yet another transformation as we enter the SaaS 4.0 era of cognition. We Lightspeed have expanded our framework & share our thoughts on first principles for what it takes to create a generational SaaS company. More 👇
lsvp.com/expanding-the-…

Today we at Lightspeed are excited to announce that we are partnering with Bluebirds and leading their $5M seed round.

Could not be more excited to back Kunal Punera & Rohan Punamia as they bring more fundamental automation to sales. Let's go! 🚀

venturebeat.com/ai/bluebirds-b…