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Lightspeed

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105 articles accelerating

Lightspeed has appeared in 105 articles since 2016-12. Coverage peaked in 2026Q1 with 12 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside TechCrunch, AI, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Ingrid Lunden.

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105
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Velocity
+140.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+1.400
velocity change
Sources
26
publications

Coverage Timeline

2026-02-05
Bloomberg 3 related

Resolve AI, which offers AI agents to monitor source code, databases, and infrastructure to address outages, raised $125M led by Lightspeed at a $1B valuation

2025-11-04
Reuters 4 related

Beacon Software, which acquires niche software businesses and transforms them with AI, raised a $250M Series B led by GC, Lightspeed, and D1 at a $1B valuation

- Beacon targets overlooked sectors with AI-driven automations  — Beacon's model emphasizes permanent ownership over rapid exits

2025-02-06
Bloomberg

Payments software company Lightspeed says it plans to continue operating as a publicly traded company and will buy back up to $400M of stock; LSPD falls 15%+

- Board of directors ‘unanimously’ agreed not to go private  — Shares slide 16% after company announces results of review Bluesky: @sheepmachine Bluesky: @sheepmachine : Bet we're going to see a LOT o...

2024-05-07
TechCrunch 9 related

Cloud security startup Wiz raised a $1B Series E co-led by a16z, Lightspeed, and Thrive at a $12B valuation, and plans to expand its business via acquisitions

Wiz, the buzzy startup building an all-in-one cloud security platform, is on an acquisition march to expand its business quickly en route to an IPO.

2021-06-07
TechCrunch 3 related

Lightspeed, which makes point-of-sale software, buys e-commerce platform Ecwid for $500M and B2B e-commerce platform NuOrder for $425M

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :

2020-11-07
BetaKit 7 related

Montreal-based payments software company Lightspeed POS has agreed to buy NY-based ShopKeep, which offers cloud-based POS system, for $440M in cash and stock

Montréal-based Lightspeed announced Thursday it is set to acquire ShopKeep, a New York City-based leading cloud commerce platform provider.

2020-10-15
FierceTelecom 2 related

Infiot, which converges connectivity, security, and edge-computing for remote users, sites, and devices, raises $15M Series A from Lightspeed and others

Mike Robuck / FierceTelecom :

2019-07-20
Livemint 6 related

Source: Oyo founder and CEO Ritesh Agarwal to pay $2B at a $10B valuation to up his stake in Oyo from 10% to 30%; Lightspeed and Sequoia India sold some shares

Deepti Chaudhary / Livemint :

2017-03-05
Reuters 9 related

Snap joins other recent big exits for Lightspeed, which include Nutanix and AppDynamics; Lightspeed also invested early in MuleSoft, The Honest Company, Affirm

A decade ago, Lightspeed Venture Partners was an obscure firm investing in highly technical startups that were mostly unknown outside of Silicon Valley.

2017-03-04
Reuters 11 related

Snap joins other recent big exits for Lightspeed, which include Nutanix and AppDynamics; Lightspeed also invested early in MuleSoft, The Honest Company, Affirm

A decade ago, Lightspeed Venture Partners was an obscure firm investing in highly technical startups that were mostly unknown outside of Silicon Valley.

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

Lightspeed has appeared in 231 Techmeme articles since December 2014. The biggest stories include Anthropic raised a $3.5B Series E led by Lightspeed at a $61.5B valuation; a source says... and Paris-based Mistral AI raised €385M from a16z, Lightspeed, and others, sources say at a.... Frequently covered alongside Lightspeed Venture Partners, TechCrunch, Sequoia, Lightspeed Ventures, and Ingrid Lunden. Coverage has shifted toward enterprise, consumer themes and away from developer, safety.

Key Moments

2024Q2enterprise +25pts; developer +21pts; funding +14pts
2024Q3enterprise -25pts; safety -12pts; developer -50pts
2024Q4developer +33pts; consumer +33pts; research +8pts

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