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 FJun 2026$750M
Series UnknownNov 2025$300M
Series EJul 2025$500M
$3B
Co-investors: Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Napoleon Ta (Founders Fund), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Samir Kaul (Khosla Ventures), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Kareem Zaki (Thrive Capital), Guillaume Cabane (Sequoia Capital), Alex Tran (General Catalyst), Kenneth Chenault (General Catalyst), Joe Lonsdale (8VC), Joshua Kushner (Thrive Capital), Justin Overdorff (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Will Kohler (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Adam Rothenberg (BoxGroup), Ravi Gupta (Sequoia Capital), Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital), Brandon Reeves (Lux Capital), Deena Shakir (Lux Capital), Gregg Smith (Evolution VC Partners), Eric Tarczynski (Contrary Capital), Koda Wang (Giant Ventures), Edward Lando (Biowear), Scott Belsky (capitalB), Seth Rosenberg (Greylock Partners), Daniel Scott (Susquehanna Capital), Chafic Kazoun, Teddy Citrin
Eve
Series BSep 2025$100M
Series AJan 2025$47M
SeedOct 2023$14M
$170M
Co-investors: Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners), David Haber (Andreessen Horowitz), James Kuklinski (Spark Capital), Chris Dixon (Andreessen Horowitz), Tim Tully (Menlo Ventures), Ravi Mhatre (Anthropic), Sam Altman, Sep Kamvar
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), Jerry Chen (Greylock), Steve Krausz (U.S. Venture Partners (USVP)), Shlomo Kramer (Skinos Family Office), Theresia Gouw (aCrew Capital), Ravi Mhatre (Anthropic)
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: Tamar Yehoshua (IVP), Shravan Narayen (IVP), Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Sonya Huang (Sequoia Capital), Somesh Dash (IVP), Ajay Vashee (IVP), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Thom Ruhe (NC IDEA), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Ravi Mhatre (Anthropic), Rahul Mehta (DST Global), Matthew Witheiler (Wellington Management)
Databricks
Series JDec 2024$10B
$21B
Co-investors: Ben Horowitz (Andreessen Horowitz), Everett Randle (Benchmark), Joshua Kushner (Thrive Capital), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), David George (Andreessen Horowitz), John Wolff (Insight Partners), Shahin Farshchi (Lux Capital), Hao Huang (UpHonest Capital), Alfred Chuang (Race Capital), John Curtius (Cedar Capital Group), Florian Seroussi (355 Capital), Chintan Patel (Venture Guides), Omar Haque (Brookfield Asset Management), Shawn Dimantha (Angel investor), Peter Sonsini, Miras Mami, Mattia Astori, Jared Sleeper
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), Carl Eschenbach (Sequoia Capital), David Schneider (Coatue Management)
Wiz
Series EMay 2024$1B
Series DFeb 2023$300M
$1.9B
Co-investors: Bogomil Balkansky (Sequoia Capital), Shardul Shah (Index Ventures), Jeff Horing (Insight Partners), Douglas Leone (Sequoia Capital), Arsham Memarzadeh (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sarah Wang (Andreessen Horowitz), Saam Motamedi (Greylock), Asheem Chandna (Greylock), Miyuki Matsumoto (Aglae Ventures), Nowi Kallen (Salesforce Ventures), Brett Rochkind (SoftBank Investment Advisers), Hans Tung (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Gili Raanan (Cyberstarts VC), Patrick Backhouse (Greenoaks Capital), Howard Schultz, Bernard Arnault
Verkada
Series DOct 2023$100M
$660M
Co-investors: Gaurav Gupta (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Aydin Senkut (Felicis Ventures), Micah Rosenbloom (Founder Collective), Mike Vernal (Sequoia Capital), Alex Kurland (Meritech Capital Partners), Bill Trenchard (First Round Capital), Deep Nishar (SoftBank Investment Advisers), Aidan Madigan-Curtis (Eclipse Ventures), Derek Zanutto (CapitalG), Lak Ananth (Next47), Victor Hwang (Msd Capital)