We are honored to be announced as a winner in the AI & Data category in the 2024 Product Awards, hosted by @productscount with partners @mightycapital and @capgemini, as one of the best tools for product managers. We’re proud to be a part of this great product-focused community!

Spoke with the legendary Semil, one of the world's great seed investors about how VC is shifting due to AI, and it's impact on all relevant stakeholders, from startup founders, to GPs, to LPs. Other fun things we discussed: * Semil's guru-like qualities and how he tweets *

Mike is a new friend but feels like an old friend. Quietly building up one of the strongest AI portfolios (stay tuned!), Michael Mignano’s integrity is exceptional & should be on the short list for scaling AI CEOs: Spotify: spoti.fi/3TDK7Qv YouTube: bit.ly/43T6VRn

Caitlin Bolnick Rellas My reductive list of "must haves" for B2B marketplaces: 1. High frag of supply or demand (ideally both) 2. Core discovery challenge (or other info arb) solved with 1st party data. 3. ~$100B+ GMV TAM or ~$10B+ rev TAM 4. Compelling wedge solution to break status quo behavior.

1/4 Congratulations to @RubrikInc and @BipulSinha on today’s IPO! From an idea incubated at Lightspeed to a large-scale company to IPO - we are thankful to have been a partner since the very beginning. lsvp.com/company/rubrik/ #RubrikIPO

If anyone is going to challenge OpenAI’s dominance it’s Mistral AI. After just 1 year: 💻 7B model on fire 🔥 🚀 Open-source 8x22B performance rocking 🏧 $520M raised My 7 key takeaways from Co-Founder & CEO Arthur Mensch 👇

.beehiiv 🐝, a next-generation email newsletter platform backed by Lightspeed, announced its $33M Series B funding today. Lightspeed led their Series A last year, and we're proud to continue our partnership. beehiiv provides a comprehensive platform for publishers to build custom

The Suno team has built an AI music model and creation product unlike anything the world has seen before, with the potential to change how we all experience music. We at Lightspeed have been so impressed by not only their execution, but also their thoughtfulness: Suno

Some exciting leadership changes at @Faire_Wholesale this morning. Congrats to laurencookslevitan and Jason Lee on your promotions to President and CFO, respectively. Thrilled to partner with you in your new roles! news.faire.com/2024/07/01/exp…

The world is facing a massive global labor shortage, particularly in industries like construction and healthcare, and many more. There are not enough people to fill the jobs, and more importantly, there are so many jobs that are not suitable for humans. While AI has the potential

The AI boom has been building for over a decade through foundational research breakthroughs. These research findings have been the foundation of some of today’s top AI companies and new innovation ecosystems. At Lightspeed, we have been close observers of AI research over the

We're thrilled to announce that we are co-leading Space and Time’s Series A round!

lightspeed just became the top series a investor for consumer companies

Each year Atlantico outdoes itself with LATAM Digital Transformation Report. This year is no different! If you want to understand the opportunity in Central and South America, I highly recommend it. Congrats to my friend Julio Vasconcellos and the Atlantico team! Well done! 👇👇

It doesn't matter if you're 25 or 75, do these 12 exercises for the rest of your life:

It doesn't matter if you're 25 or 75, but if you are 45+ just DO IT. Makes a huge difference. Mobility matters. #themoreyouknow

Not that Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. needs me to validate that he doesn’t get paid to endorse anyone, but I have been following (and…literally following, the advice of, that is) Dan Go for a long time and his advice is accessible, concise and effective. It has helped me personally and

A lot of legitimately awesome science happening at Arc Institute. (Including some coming later this month.)

Mike Krieger (Mike Krieger) is the CPO of Anthropic ($10B+ raised) and the co-founder of Instagram, which he sold to Meta for $1B. Here's the full video of my recent conversation with him. Mike has one of the AI industry's most interesting jobs. He shared with me how he and his

Proud to co-lead Reflection AI Series A as they emerge from stealth with $130M in funding. Huge congrats to Co-Founders Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou, and the incredible team they’ve built—one of the strongest Reinforcement Learning (RL) research teams in the world. Misha and