Investing Profile

Arif Janmohamed

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Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
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Networks Arif is a member of
The Wharton School Network
237 CONNECTIONS
Lightspeed Venture Partners Network
54 CONNECTIONS
Cisco Systems Network
46 CONNECTIONS
University of Waterloo Network
40 CONNECTIONS
Sun Microsystems Network
34 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Lightspeed Venture Partners Partner
Investment Range
$3.0M - $20.0M
Sweet Spot
$15.0M
Investments On Record
111

Arif Janmohamed is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Arif Janmohamed's Investments On Record (42)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Zocks
Series BJan 2026$45M
Series AMar 2025$14M
SeedFeb 2024$6M
$65M
EvenUp
Series EOct 2025$150M
Series DOct 2024$140M
Series CDec 2023$35M
$370M
Co-investors: Wayne Hu (SignalFire), Aaref Hilaly (Bain Capital Ventures), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange), Scott Belsky (A24), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com)
AppZen
Series DSep 2025$180M
Series CSep 2019$50M
Series BOct 2018$35M
$280M
Co-investors: Alex Bard (Redpoint Ventures), James Cham (Bloomberg BETA), Philippe Suchet (Spider Capital), Greg Kidd (globaliD), Raanan Bar-Cohen (Resolute Ventures), Christine Tsai (500 Global)
Rocksalt
SeedJul 2025$4M
SeedJul 2024$4M
$8M
Co-investors: Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Mike Volpe, Pawan Deshpande
Omnifold
Series AMay 2025$28M
$28M
Co-investors: Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners)
Endor Labs
Series BApr 2025$93M
Series AAug 2023$70M
SeedOct 2022$25M
$190M
Co-investors: Mark Fernandes (Sierra Ventures), Bipul Sinha (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Matt Carbonara (Citi Ventures), Deepak Jeevankumar (Dell Technologies Capital), Deepak Jeevan Kumar
Redpanda Data
Series DApr 2025$100M
Series CJun 2023$100M
Series BFeb 2022$50M
Series AJan 2021$13M
SeedJan 2020$3M
$270M
Co-investors: Semil Shah (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Dave Munichiello (GV (Google Ventures))
LightSource
Series AMar 2025$33M
$33M
Co-investors: Anoushka Vaswani (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Ajay Agarwal (Bain Capital Ventures), Edward Lando (Biowear), Russ Wilcox (Pillar VC)

Arif Janmohamed's Experience

Founding Charter Member and Early Board Member C1002009 - Present
Partner Lightspeed Venture Partners2008 - Present
Manager, Corporate Business Development Cisco Systems2006 - 2008
Founder WVP Ventures2005 - 2006
Associate Novitas Capital2005 - 2005
Chief Technology Office Sun Microsystems2003 - 2004
Product Manager / Sr. Hardware Engineer Andes Networks2000 - 2003
Hardware Engineer WebTV1999 - 2000

Arif Janmohamed's Education

The Wharton School MBA
University of Waterloo BSc
Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
University of Lausanne (Switzerland)