Investing Profile

James Ephrati

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Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
lsvp.com/team/james-ephratiSan Francisco, California
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$3.0M - $20.0M
$15.0M
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CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Ramp
Series UnknownNov 2025$300M
Series EJul 2025$500M
$2.3B
Co-investors: Samir Kaul (Khosla Ventures), Kareem Zaki (Thrive Capital), Ravi Gupta (Sequoia Capital), Alex Tran (General Catalyst), Kenneth Chenault (General Catalyst), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Adam Rothenberg (BoxGroup), Justin Overdorff (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Joe Lonsdale (8VC), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Joshua Kushner (Thrive Capital), Napoleon Ta (Founders Fund), Will Kohler (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Deena Shakir (GV (Google Ventures)), Guillaume Cabane (Sequoia Capital), Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital), Brandon Reeves (Lux Capital), Koda Wang (Giant Ventures), Edward Lando (Biowear), Scott Belsky (A24), Seth Rosenberg (Greylock Partners), Eric Tarczynski (Contrary Capital), Gregg Smith (Evolution VC Partners), Daniel Scott (Susquehanna Capital), Teddy Citrin, Chafic Kazoun
Eve
Series BSep 2025$100M
Series AJan 2025$47M
SeedOct 2023$14M
$170M
Co-investors: David Haber (Andreessen Horowitz), James Kuklinski (Spark Capital), Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Chris Dixon (Andreessen Horowitz), Tim Tully (Menlo Ventures), Sam Altman
Cato Networks
Series GJun 2025$410M
Series UnknownSep 2023$240M
Series FOct 2021$200M
Series ENov 2020$130M
Series DApr 2020$77M
Series CJan 2019$55M
$1.2B
Co-investors: Yoni Cheifetz (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Jerry Chen (Greylock), Theresia Gouw (aCrew Capital), Steve Krausz (U.S. Venture Partners (USVP)), Shlomo Kramer (Skinos Family Office)
Glean
Series FJun 2025$150M
Series ESep 2024$260M
Series DFeb 2024$200M
Series CMay 2022$100M
Series BMar 2021$40M
Series AMar 2019$15M
$770M
Co-investors: Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Sonya Huang (Sequoia Capital), Somesh Dash (IVP), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Rahul Mehta (DST Global), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Matthew Witheiler (Wellington Management), Thom Ruhe
Databricks
Series JDec 2024$10B
$21B
Co-investors: Ben Horowitz (Andreessen Horowitz), Everett Randle (Benchmark), Joshua Kushner (Thrive Capital), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Shahin Farshchi (Lux Capital), Hao Huang (UpHonest Capital), Chintan Patel (Venture Guides), Florian Seroussi (355 Capital), Omar Haque (Family Office), John Curtius (Cedar Capital Group), Shawn Dimantha (Angel investor), Peter Sonsini, Mattia Astori, Jared Sleeper, Miras Mami
Grafana Labs
Series DAug 2024$270M
Series DApr 2022$240M
Series CAug 2021$220M
Series BAug 2020$50M
Series AOct 2019$24M
$800M
Co-investors: Gaurav Gupta (Lightspeed Venture Partners), David Schneider (Coatue), Carl Eschenbach (Sequoia Capital)
Wiz
Series EMay 2024$1B
Series DFeb 2023$300M
$1.9B
Co-investors: Douglas Leone (Sequoia Capital), Shardul Shah (Index Ventures), Jeff Horing (Insight Partners), Bogomil Balkansky (Sequoia Capital), Arsham Memarzadeh (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sarah Wang (Andreessen Horowitz), Asheem Chandna (Greylock), Saam Motamedi (Greylock Partners), Gili Raanan (Cyberstarts VC), Patrick Backhouse (Greenoaks Capital), Brett Rochkind (SoftBank Investment Advisers), Nowi Kallen (Salesforce Ventures), Hans Tung (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital))
Verkada
Series DOct 2023$100M
$660M
Co-investors: Alex Kurland (Meritech Capital Partners), Aydin Senkut (Felicis Ventures), Mike Vernal (Sequoia Capital), Micah Rosenbloom (Founder Collective), Gaurav Gupta (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Bill Trenchard (First Round Capital), Aidan Madigan-Curtis (Eclipse Ventures), Victor Hwang (Msd Capital), Deep Nishar (SoftBank Investment Advisers)