Investing Profile

James Ephrati

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Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
lsvp.com/team/james-ephratiSan Francisco, California
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$3.0M - $20.0M
$15.0M
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CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Ramp
Series UnknownNov 2025$300M
Series EJul 2025$500M
$2.3B
Co-investors: Alex Tran (General Catalyst), Kareem Zaki (Thrive Capital), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Guillaume Cabane (Sequoia Capital), Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Kenneth Chenault (General Catalyst), Joe Lonsdale (8VC), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Joshua Kushner (Thrive Capital), Napoleon Ta (Founders Fund), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Samir Kaul (Khosla Ventures), Justin Overdorff (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Will Kohler (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Adam Rothenberg (BoxGroup), Ravi Gupta (Sequoia Capital), Brandon Reeves (Lux Capital), Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital), Deena Shakir (Lux Capital), Koda Wang (Giant Ventures), Edward Lando (Biowear), Scott Belsky (A24), Eric Tarczynski (Contrary Capital), Seth Rosenberg (Greylock Partners), Gregg Smith (Evolution VC Partners), Daniel Scott (Susquehanna Capital), Teddy Citrin, Chafic Kazoun
Eve
Series BSep 2025$100M
Series AJan 2025$47M
SeedOct 2023$14M
$170M
Co-investors: Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), David Haber (Andreessen Horowitz), James Kuklinski (Spark Capital), Chris Dixon (Andreessen Horowitz), Tim Tully (Menlo Ventures), Sam Altman, Sep Kamvar
Cato Networks
Series GJun 2025$410M
Series UnknownSep 2023$240M
Series FOct 2021$200M
Series ENov 2020$130M
Series DApr 2020$77M
Series CJan 2019$55M
$1.2B
Co-investors: Jerry Chen (Greylock), Yoni Cheifetz (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Shlomo Kramer (Skinos Family Office), Steve Krausz (U.S. Venture Partners (USVP)), Theresia Gouw (aCrew Capital)
Glean
Series FJun 2025$150M
Series ESep 2024$260M
Series DFeb 2024$200M
Series CMay 2022$100M
Series BMar 2021$40M
Series AMar 2019$15M
$770M
Co-investors: Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Sonya Huang (Sequoia Capital), Somesh Dash (IVP), Rahul Mehta (DST Global), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Matthew Witheiler (Wellington Management), Thom Ruhe
Databricks
Series JDec 2024$10B
$21B
Co-investors: Ben Horowitz (Andreessen Horowitz), John Wolff (Insight Partners), Joshua Kushner (Thrive Capital), Everett Randle (Benchmark), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Shahin Farshchi (Lux Capital), Hao Huang (UpHonest Capital), Alfred Chuang (Race Capital), John Curtius (Cedar Capital Group), Florian Seroussi (355 Capital), Chintan Patel (Venture Guides), Omar Haque (Family Office), Shawn Dimantha (Angel investor), Peter Sonsini, Jared Sleeper, Mattia Astori, Miras Mami
Grafana Labs
Series DAug 2024$270M
Series DApr 2022$240M
Series CAug 2021$220M
Series BAug 2020$50M
Series AOct 2019$24M
$800M
Co-investors: Gaurav Gupta (Lightspeed Venture Partners), David Schneider (Coatue), Carl Eschenbach (Sequoia Capital)
Wiz
Series EMay 2024$1B
Series DFeb 2023$300M
$1.9B
Co-investors: Douglas Leone (Sequoia Capital), Arsham Memarzadeh (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sarah Wang (Andreessen Horowitz), Shardul Shah (Index Ventures), Asheem Chandna (Greylock), Bogomil Balkansky (Sequoia Capital), Jeff Horing (Insight Partners), Gili Raanan (Cyberstarts VC), Patrick Backhouse (Greenoaks Capital), Nowi Kallen (Salesforce Ventures), Brett Rochkind (SoftBank Investment Advisers), Hans Tung (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Saam Motamedi (Greylock Partners), Howard Schultz, Bernard Arnault
Verkada
Series DOct 2023$100M
$660M
Co-investors: Gaurav Gupta (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Aydin Senkut (Felicis Ventures), Micah Rosenbloom (Founder Collective), Mike Vernal (Sequoia Capital), Alex Kurland (Meritech Capital Partners), Bill Trenchard (First Round Capital), Deep Nishar (SoftBank Investment Advisers), Aidan Madigan-Curtis (Eclipse Ventures), Victor Hwang (Msd Capital)