Investing Profile

James Ephrati

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Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

lsvp.com/team/james-ephratiSan Francisco, California

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Current Investing Position

Lightspeed Venture Partners Partner

Investment Range

$3.0M - $20.0M

Sweet Spot

$15.0M

Investments On Record

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ClimateTech/CleanTech (Series B)ClimateTech/CleanTech (Series A)Consumer Internet (Series B)ClimateTech/CleanTech (Seed)Enterprise (Series B)SaaS (Series B)Israel Enterprise (Series A)Consumer Internet (Seed)San Francisco Bay Area Enterprise Infrastructure (Seed)Enterprise Infrastructure (Series B)Enterprise Infrastructure (Series A)SaaS (Series A)Consumer Internet (Series A)SaaS (Seed)Enterprise (Seed)

James Ephrati's Investments On Record (11)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Eve	Series BSep 2025$100M Series AJan 2025$47M SeedOct 2023$14M	$170M
Co-investors: David Haber (Andreessen Horowitz), James Kuklinski (Spark Capital), 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: Yoni Cheifetz (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Jerry Chen (Greylock), Steve Krausz (U.S. Venture Partners (USVP)), Theresia Gouw (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: Sonya Huang (Sequoia Capital), Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Rahul Mehta (DST Global), Matthew Witheiler (Wellington Management), Thom Ruhe
Databricks	Series JDec 2024$10B	$19B
Co-investors: John Wolff (Insight Partners), Joshua Kushner (Thrive Capital), Hao Huang (UpHonest Capital), Everett Randle (Kleiner Perkins), Florian Seroussi (355 Capital), John Curtius (Cedar Capital Group), Omar Haque (Family Office), Alfred Chuang (Race Capital), Shawn Dimantha (Angel investor), Mattia Astori, Jared Sleeper, Miras Mami, Chintan Patel
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)
Wiz	Series EMay 2024$1B Series DFeb 2023$300M	$1.9B
Co-investors: Jeff Horing (Insight Partners), Saam Motamedi (Greylock), Asheem Chandna (Greylock), Shardul Shah (Index Ventures), Arsham Memarzadeh (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sarah Wang (Andreessen Horowitz), Patrick Backhouse (Greenoaks Capital), Gili Raanan (Cyberstarts VC), Miyuki Matsumoto (Aglae Ventures), Nowi Kallen (Salesforce Ventures), Hans Tung (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Brett Rochkind (SoftBank Investment Advisers), Bernard Arnault, Howard Schultz
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: Brian Pokorny (SV Angel), Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Ravi Gupta (Sequoia Capital), Jess Lee (Sequoia Capital), Jeff Crowe (Norwest Venture Partners), Lauren Farleigh (Mischief Venture Capital)
ThoughtSpot	Series FNov 2021$100M Series EAug 2019$250M	$550M
Co-investors: Jai Das (Sapphire Ventures), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Jamie Montgomery (March Capital), Sudheesh Nair