For the seventh year in a row, Forbes spotlights the most promising privately held AI companies in the world through its AI 50 list. Congratulations to Lightspeed-backed Abridge, Anthropic, @Databricks, @Glean, Mistral AI, @Pika_Labs, Skild AI, Snorkel AI, Suno, and

Content by @Lightspeedvp Arvind Jain Glean: AI is no longer just an experiment — it’s driving real business impact, says Arvind Jain, CEO of Glean.

Congratulations to Dario Amodei, Co-Founder and CEO of Lightspeed-backed Anthropic, on being recognized as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025. Over the past several years, I’ve had the privilege of working closely with Dario and experiencing his vision and

The Urgency of Interpretability: Why it's crucial that we understand how AI models work darioamodei.com/post/the-urgen…

Excited to welcome Bucky Moore as the newest Partner at Lightspeed. Bucky joins us after 11 years as a venture investor, the majority of which was spent at Kleiner Perkins. At Lightspeed, Bucky will help lead our enterprise investing efforts, with a primary focus on AI,

Excited to share that I have joined Lightspeed to help drive their early-stage efforts in enterprise. Lightspeed has been on my radar for a while. 14 years ago, I noticed they were the lead investor in many of the startups we were tracking Cisco. Lightspeed also had Cisco

Excited to welcome Reed Hastings to the board of Anthropic. Reed built one of the most transformative tech companies of our time at Netflix. His experience scaling complex systems and navigating inflection points will be invaluable as Anthropic continues to shape the

We at Lightspeed have had the privilege of working with Arvind Jain for over 20 years and have been long-time believers in his vision for Glean. Since founding Glean in 2019, he and the team have built a powerful platform that simplifies a fragmented AI landscape and helps

Big milestone for Lightspeed-backed Cato Networks. Congratulations to Co-Founder and CEO Shlomo Kramer and the entire Cato team for successfully closing its Series G funding round. As longtime investors, we’ve witnessed Cato grow from being a category-defining SASE platform to

Last month, Apple’s Machine Learning Research paper, “The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity,” sparked discussion among members of the AI community by suggesting that reasoning models struggle

Another great hire for Anthropic – Paul Smith is joining as the company's first Chief Commercial Officer. Paul's 30+ years building go-to-market powerhouses at Microsoft, Salesforce, and ServiceNow will be invaluable in strengthening Anthropic's commercial organization and

Congratulations to Lightspeed-backed Thinking Machines on raising a record $2B seed round. Mira Murati, John Schulman, Barret Zoph,Lilian Weng, Andrew Tulloch, Luke Metz, and their incredible team are building advanced multimodal AI systems designed to interact the way

Congrats David Sacks David Sacks Sriram Krishnan and all who contributed to America’s AI Action plan. The ideas are creative, the thinking Is clear and the strategies are logical and rational. Having both careful controls that prevent AI proliferation to our adversaries and

I've had the privilege of watching Skild AI come to life since we co-led their Seed and Series A. Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta don’t just have the vision, they have the track record and the team to execute it, and today, they start to share it with the world.

Few leaders are influencing both the trajectory of AI and the way we think about building it responsibly like Anthropic Co-Founder and CEO Dario Amodei. For years, he’s seen the potential of emerging AI, and his urgency to accelerate progress without compromising on safety is

Excited to see @skildai unveiling the world most advanced foundation model for robotics!

DAY 2 of our August Drop: Agent debug mode 🔍 Ever wonder how your AI agent comes up with answers? With debug mode, now you can see every step, every source, and every decision to understand how your agents think – so you can build with confidence and precision.

🗓️ Mark your calendars for August 26 and join us for a #GenSF meetup covering mechanistic interpretability in modern AI models. Our Partner Nnamdi Iregbulem will moderate a fireside chat with leaders from Lightspeed-backed companies with Anthropic’s Researcher Jack Lindsey