Investing Profile

Arif Janmohamed

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Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
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Networks Arif is a member of
The Wharton School Network
429 CONNECTIONS
Lightspeed Venture Partners Network
64 CONNECTIONS
University of Waterloo Network
62 CONNECTIONS
Sun Microsystems Network
49 CONNECTIONS
Cisco Systems Network
46 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Lightspeed Venture Partners Partner
Investment Range
$3.0M - $20.0M
Sweet Spot
$15.0M
Investments On Record
112

Arif Janmohamed is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Arif Janmohamed's Investments On Record (42)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Straiker
Series AJun 2026$64M
Series AMar 2025$21M
$85M
Co-investors: Rak Garg (Bain Capital Ventures), Enrique Salem (Bain Capital Ventures), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com)
Zocks
Series BJan 2026$45M
Series AMar 2025$14M
SeedFeb 2024$6M
$65M
Co-investors: George Hu (Benchmark), Laura Bock (QED Investors)
EvenUp
Series EOct 2025$150M
Series DOct 2024$140M
Series CDec 2023$35M
$370M
Co-investors: Aaref Hilaly (Bain Capital Ventures), David Cheng (DCM), Wayne Hu (SignalFire), Byron Deeter (Bessemer Venture Partners), Sameer Dholakia (Bessemer Venture Partners), Sarah Hinkfuss (Bain Capital Ventures), Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, formerly The New Normal Fund), Scott Belsky (capitalB), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Morgan Beller
AppZen
Series DSep 2025$180M
Series CSep 2019$50M
Series BOct 2018$35M
$280M
Co-investors: Alex Bard (Redpoint Ventures), Raanan Bar-Cohen (Resolute Ventures), Philippe Suchet (Spider Capital), Greg Kidd (globaliD), Wally Wang (Scale Asia Ventures), James Cham (Bloomberg BETA), Alexandre Porto (Riverwood Capital), Christine Tsai (500 Global)
Rocksalt
SeedJul 2025$4M
SeedJul 2024$4M
$8M
Co-investors: Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Anu Bharadwaj (Operator Collective), Mike Volpe, Pawan Deshpande
Omnifold
Series AMay 2025$28M
$28M
Co-investors: John Thompson (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners)
Endor Labs
Series BApr 2025$93M
Series AAug 2023$70M
SeedOct 2022$25M
$190M
Co-investors: Mark Fernandes (Sierra Ventures), Bipul Sinha (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Deepak Jeevankumar (Dell Technologies Capital), Matt Carbonara (Citi Ventures), Oren Yunger (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Farooq Abbasi (Preface Ventures), Deepak Jeevan Kumar, Matt Carbonara
Redpanda Data
Series DApr 2025$100M
Series CJun 2023$100M
Series BFeb 2022$50M
Series AJan 2021$13M
SeedJan 2020$3M
$270M
Co-investors: Semil Shah (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Dave Munichiello (GV (Google Ventures)), Nnamdi Iregbulem (Lightspeed Venture Partners)

Arif Janmohamed's Experience

Founding Charter Member and Early Board Member C1002009 - Present
Partner Lightspeed Venture Partners2008 - Present
Manager, Corporate Business Development Cisco Systems2006 - 2008
Founder WVP Ventures2005 - 2006
Associate Novitas Capital2005 - 2005
Chief Technology Office Sun Microsystems2003 - 2004
Product Manager / Sr. Hardware Engineer Andes Networks2000 - 2003
Hardware Engineer WebTV1999 - 2000

Arif Janmohamed's Education

The Wharton School MBA
University of Waterloo BSc
Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
University of Lausanne (Switzerland)