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: Napoleon Ta (Founders Fund), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Samir Kaul (Khosla Ventures), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Kareem Zaki (Thrive Capital), Justin Overdorff (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Alex Tran (General Catalyst), Joe Lonsdale (8VC), Kenneth Chenault (General Catalyst), Ravi Gupta (Sequoia Capital), Adam Rothenberg (BoxGroup), Will Kohler (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Joshua Kushner (Thrive Capital), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Guillaume Cabane (Sequoia Capital), Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Deena Shakir (Lux Capital), Brandon Reeves (Lux Capital), Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital), Eric Tarczynski (Contrary Capital), Gregg Smith (Evolution VC Partners), Koda Wang (Giant Ventures), Edward Lando (Biowear), Scott Belsky (A24), 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), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), David Haber (Andreessen Horowitz), James Kuklinski (Spark Capital), Chris Dixon (Andreessen Horowitz), Tim Tully (Menlo Ventures), 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: Jerry Chen (Greylock), Yoni Cheifetz (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Steve Krausz (U.S. Venture Partners (USVP)), Shlomo Kramer (Skinos Family Office), Theresia Gouw (aCrew Capital)
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: Shravan Narayen (IVP), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Somesh Dash (IVP), Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Sonya Huang (Sequoia Capital), Ajay Vashee (IVP), Tamar Yehoshua (IVP), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Rahul Mehta (DST Global), Matthew Witheiler (Wellington Management), Thom Ruhe
Databricks
Series JDec 2024$10B
$21B
Co-investors: Ben Horowitz (Andreessen Horowitz), David George (Andreessen Horowitz), John Wolff (Insight Partners), Joshua Kushner (Thrive Capital), Everett Randle (Benchmark), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Hao Huang (UpHonest Capital), Shahin Farshchi (Lux Capital), John Curtius (Cedar Capital Group), Florian Seroussi (355 Capital), Alfred Chuang (Race Capital), Shawn Dimantha (Angel investor), Omar Haque (Family Office), Chintan Patel (Venture Guides), Miras Mami, Peter Sonsini, 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: Carl Eschenbach (Sequoia Capital), David Schneider (Coatue), Gaurav Gupta (Lightspeed Venture Partners)
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), Patrick Backhouse (Greenoaks Capital), Nowi Kallen (Salesforce Ventures), Gili Raanan (Cyberstarts VC), Hans Tung (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Brett Rochkind (SoftBank Investment Advisers), Miyuki Matsumoto (Aglae Ventures), Bernard Arnault, Howard Schultz
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), Victor Hwang (Msd Capital), Lak Ananth (Next47), Derek Zanutto (CapitalG), Aidan Madigan-Curtis (Eclipse Ventures), Deep Nishar (SoftBank Investment Advisers)