We heard from two gaming visionaries about the status and future of gaming - Lior Shiff, CEO & Co-founder of Tripledot Studios - a London-based mobile games company which was recently valued at $1.4B - and Carolin Krenzer, CEO & Co-founder of Trailmix, the London-based makers of the hit game Love & Pies. Read below for a few of the insights and learnings they shared with the Lightspeed Founder community: We’re grateful to our amazing lineup of speakers for their time and especially for their candor. It’s especially important to recognize innovative entrepreneurs in the context of the many challenges facing Founders today, from a global pandemic to economic downcycles. He has 15 years of venture capital experience and invests in areas including infrastructure technologies, digital media and services. The “Leading Lights” event series originated with our desire to celebrate Founders and offer a close up and personal look at the ups and downs of their company-building experience. Christopher Schaepe is a founding general partner of Lightspeed Venture Partners, an early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, CA with offices in Asia and Israel. That generates a whole lot of learning that we look to bring to founders we partner with. And 45% of our approximately 900 portfolio companies are international. In 2014, it expanded its customer base to include the hospitality industry. We believe many of the next generation of era-defining companies will be born outside the US, and our commitment to building a global firm came from this deeply rooted belief that innovation would be global.Īs a result of our early commitment to be global, more than half of Lightspeed’s 70 investors are now located outside the US, across 12 offices in 6 countries. Lightspeed was founded by Dax da Silva in 2005, with its headquarters in Montreal, to provide point-of-sale and e-commerce software to retail businesses. The startup community in Europe is vibrant and growing - in fact, more than 1 million jobs have been created by venture backed companies in Europe since 2000. The room was filled with 200+ entrepreneurs from the EU and the energy in the room was palpable.Įarlier that day, we announced our new office in London and new Partners in Paris and Berlin. We’ve been holding this event for many years in the U.S., and this was the first time we held it overseas. Lightspeed Venture Partners XIII Returns History. The fund is designed to support early stages of innovation, from Seed round to Series A and B. Now, the Silicon Valley-based firm founded in 2000 with offices around the globe just needs to decide how to spend it all. Lightspeed Venture Partners XIII General Information. At Lightspeed, we know many of the best ideas and most innovative business models come from companies located outside of the US.Ī few weeks ago, we hosted our annual marquee event, Leading Lights, in London. Lightspeed Venture Partners has raised 4.6 billion across two growth funds in 2022, the largest growth funds raised in its 22-year history, in a market where large fundings at high valuations have slowed significantly.
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