Lightspeed Ventures

“Build critical infrastructure for the country, and what that looks like is being in all 50 states going up the stack into utility infrastructure, going down the stack into the home and building more products and services to lower costs and increase reliability…”

“The round was led by Addition, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed coming in as new investors, and then existing investors, Valor, Thrive, Altimeter, Trust Ventures, Terrain, and a number of other smaller investors.”

“As personal a relationship as I have with each founder I work with, I have to remind myself that I was representing Kleiner Perkins on the board of all these companies that I served on, and I think with that, now that I've moved over to Lightspeed, there's thi…”

“When he told me he was building something new with Sam, it was like, doesn't even matter what you're building. Sure. We will invest.”

“Lightspeed From a very early on in, in sort of the AI kind of revolution took this position that actually AI and foundation models are more akin to software and code than they are to business lines and strategies.”

“We're not only going to cover Lightspeed stuff. I think there's an immense opportunity to just be this place where people can digest what's happening in startups, what's happening in deep tech, what's happening in AI. And what we'll do is cover a couple storie…”

“So they recently invested in a company called Modus which is doing a lot in the audit, audit space which traditionally like Dominated by small medium businesses or like the KPMGs of the world. Now you have an opportunity to build like an AI native audit servic…”

“And so you have companies like Sycamore Labs that, that Lightspeed just invested in Raindrop just released something new. This idea that around this ecosystem of agents, you have to build audit trails, like you have to build harnesses for them.”