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
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: Jerry Chen (Greylock), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Yoni Cheifetz (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Steve Krausz (U.S. Venture Partners (USVP)), Theresia Gouw (aCrew Capital), Andrew McKinzie (aCrew Capital), Shlomo Kramer
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: Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Sonya Huang (Sequoia Capital), Matthew Witheiler (Wellington Management), Rahul Mehta (DST Global), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Thom Ruhe, Sahin Boydas
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: Carl Eschenbach (Sequoia Capital), Gaurav Gupta (Lightspeed Venture Partners), David Schneider (Coatue)
Wiz
Series EMay 2024$1B
Series DFeb 2023$300M
$1.9B
Co-investors: Douglas Leone (Sequoia Capital), Jeff Horing (Insight Partners), Shardul Shah (Index Ventures), Arsham Memarzadeh (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sarah Wang (Andreessen Horowitz), Gili Raanan (Cyberstarts VC), Nowi Kallen (Salesforce Ventures), Miyuki Matsumoto (Aglae Ventures), Patrick Backhouse (Greenoaks Capital), Hans Tung (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Brett Rochkind (SoftBank Investment Advisers), Howard Schultz, Bernard Arnault
Faire
Series GNov 2021$600M
Series FJun 2021$260M
Series EOct 2020$170M
Series DOct 2019$150M
Series CDec 2018$60M
Series BDec 2018$40M
$1.7B
Co-investors: Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital), Alex Taussig (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Ravi Gupta (Sequoia Capital), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Jess Lee (Sequoia Capital), Brian Pokorny (SV Angel), Anu Hariharan (Y Combinator), Jeff Crowe (Norwest Venture Partners), Lauren Farleigh (Mischief Venture Capital)
ThoughtSpot
Series FNov 2021$100M
Series EAug 2019$250M
$640M
Co-investors: Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Arif Janmohamed (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Jai Das (Sapphire Ventures), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Jamie Montgomery (March Capital), Sudheesh Nair
Yugabyte
Series COct 2021$190M
Series BMar 2021$48M
Series BJun 2020$30M
$290M
Co-investors: Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Vivek Gopalan (8VC), Bhaskar Ghosh (8VC), Jai Das (Sapphire Ventures), Deepak Jeevankumar (Dell Technologies Capital), Deepak Jeevan Kumar
Carta
Series FMay 2020$180M
Series EMay 2019$300M
$1.2B
Co-investors: Ryan Petersen (Founders Fund), Will Kohler (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Rick Heitzmann (FirstMark Capital), Manu Kumar (K9 Ventures), Chad Byers (Susa Ventures), John Buttrick (Union Square Ventures), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), Matt Murphy (Menlo Ventures), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Wesley Chan (FPV Fund), Andrew Parker (Spero Ventures), Jordan Fudge (Sinai Ventures), Bryan Rosenblatt (Craft Ventures), Eric Reiner (Vine Ventures LP), David Jette (Innovent Capital Group), Patrick Yang (Amity Ventures), Chloe Sladden (#ANGELS (Hashtag ANGELS)), CJ Reim (Amity Ventures), Eugene Zhang (TSVC Capital), Cyan Banister (Long Journey Ventures), Serik Kaldykulov (Elefund), Semil Shah (Haystack), Hunter Mcnabb (9Yards Capital), Dan Jones (Jigsaw VC), Collin West (Ensemble VC), Craig Cummings (Moonshots Capital), April Underwood (Adverb Ventures), Russell Cook, Louis Beryl, Scott Banister, Scott Belsky, Stewart Butterfield, Todd Corenson, Jeffrey Lee, Vivek Garipalli