Investing Profile

Chris Schaepe

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Founding General Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Networks Chris is a member of
IBM Network
40 CONNECTIONS
MIT Network
27 CONNECTIONS
MIT Network
27 CONNECTIONS
Lightspeed Venture Partners Network
26 CONNECTIONS
Lightspeed Venture Partners Network
26 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Lightspeed Venture Partners General Partner
Investment Range
$3.0M - $20.0M
Sweet Spot
$15.0M
Investments On Record
52

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Chris Schaepe's Investments On Record (18)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Flux
Seed RoundOct 2021$12M
$15M
Co-investors: Seth Bannon (Fifty Years), Lenny Rachitsky (AirAngels), Sriram Krishnan (Angel Collective Opportunity Fund), Ellen Levy (Silicon Valley Connect), Sukhinder Singh Cassidy (aCrew Capital), Mike Dauber (Amplify Partners), Stephanie Palmeri
Aqua Security
Series EMar 2021$135M
Series DMay 2020$30M
Series CApr 2019$62M
Series BSep 2017$25M
$252M
Co-investors: Ron Rymon
Rethink
Seed RoundJun 2020$1.1M
Seed RoundNov 2019$2.2M
$3.6M
Co-investors: Glen Anderson (Monta Vista Capital), Rob May (PJC), Rahul Prakash (NOMO Ventures)
Pulsar AI
Pre Seed RoundNov 2019$1.2M
$1.2M
Guardant Health
Series EMay 2017$360M
Series DJan 2016$100M
Series CFeb 2015$50M
$550M
Co-investors: Samir Kaul (Khosla Ventures), Pejman Nozad (Pear VC), Bobby Yazdani (Cota Capital), Kyle Kurpinski (Tencent Holdings), John Lee (Jazz Venture Partners), David Chen, Farzad Nazem
Avere Systems
Series EMar 2017$14M
Series DJul 2014$20M
Series CJul 2012$20M
$71M
Co-investors: Brian Paul (Tenaya Capital), John Jarve (Sierra Point Ventures), Matthew Howard (Norwest Venture Partners)
Evariant
Series CMay 2016
Series CNov 2015$42.3M
Series BMay 2014$18.3M
$60.6M
Co-investors: David Chen
Kenandy
Series BMar 2016$11.5M
Series BJun 2013$33M
$44.5M

Chris Schaepe's Experience

Founder, Managing Director Lightspeed Venture PartnersPresent
Co-Founder Lightspeed Venture Partners2000 - Present
General Partner Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners1991 - 2000
Associate Goldman, Sachs & Co.1986 - 1989
software engineer IBM1985 - 1986

Chris Schaepe's Education

Stanford Graduate School of Business Master of Business Administration (MBA)
MIT Master of Science (MS) Computer Science
MIT Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science