Investing Profile

Faraz Fatemi(943)

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Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

lsvp.com/team-member/faraz-fa...Los Angeles, California

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Faraz Fatemi's investing connections

37 Investors

Connected to Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), Josh Elman (Greylock Partners), Eva Ho (Fika Ventures), and 34 other investors on Signal.

Networks Faraz is a member of

Bain & Company Network

157 CONNECTIONS

University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business Network

110 CONNECTIONS

On Deck Network

68 CONNECTIONS

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Lightspeed Venture Partners Network

54 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

Lightspeed Venture Partners Partner

Investment Range

$1M - $30.0M

Sweet Spot

$10.0M

Investments On Record

Faraz Fatemi is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Faraz Fatemi's Investments On Record (12)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Origin Lab	SeedMay 2026$8M	$8M
Co-investors: Kyle Vogt (Cruise Automation, Inc.), Kevin Lin
Granola	Series CMar 2026$130M Series BMay 2025$43M Series AAug 2024$20M SeedApr 2023$4M	$190M
Co-investors: Nabeel Hyatt (Spark Capital), Michael Mignano (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Danny Rimer (Index Ventures), Hunter Walk (Homebrew), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Andrew Parker (Spero Ventures), Terrence Rohan (Robinhood), Charlie Songhurst, Mike Krieger, Karim Atiyeh, Guillermo Rauch, Tobias Lutke, David Lieb
Doctronic	Series BMar 2026$40M Series ASep 2025$20M	$60M
Co-investors: Brenton Fargnoli (AlleyCorp), Fei-Fei Li (AI4ALL), Scott Belsky (A24)
Profound	Series CFeb 2026$96M	$160M
Co-investors: Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Anas Biad (Sequoia Capital), Thomson Nguyen (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University), Ilya Fushman (Kleiner Perkins), Ben Braverman (Saga), Scott Belsky (A24), Karim Atiyeh, Balaji Srinivasan, Guillermo Rauch
Dialogue AI	SeedOct 2025$6M	$6M
Co-investors: Bejul Somaia (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Steven Lee (SV Angel), Michael Mignano (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Anne Lee Skates (Andreessen Horowitz)
Macroscope	Series AJul 2025$30M	$30M
Co-investors: Michael Mignano (Lightspeed Venture Partners)
xAI	Series CNov 2024$6B Series BMay 2024$6B	$37B
Co-investors: Michael Mignano (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Jay Zaveri (Natural Capital), Ozi Amanat (K2 Global), Siddharth Singhal (trilitech), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange), Ana Levine (E1 Ventures), minju lee (11), Adeel Hussain, Mattia Astori, Erick Tseng
TollBit	Series AOct 2024$24M	$31M
Co-investors: Ben Lerer (Lerer Hippeau), Michael Mignano (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Manuel Bronstein (500 Startups Korea), Anthony Goldbloom (AIX Ventures), Liu Jiang