Investing Profile

James Ephrati

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Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
lsvp.com/team/james-ephratiSan Francisco, California
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Current Investing Position
Lightspeed Venture Partners Partner
Investment Range
$3.0M - $20.0M
Sweet Spot
$15.0M
Investments On Record
38

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James Ephrati's Investments On Record (11)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Eve
Series BSep 2025$100M
Series AJan 2025$47M
SeedOct 2023$14M
$170M
Co-investors: David Haber (Andreessen Horowitz), James Kuklinski (Spark Capital), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Chris Dixon (Andreessen Horowitz), Tim Tully (Menlo Ventures), Sep Kamvar, Sam Altman
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: Yoni Cheifetz (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Jerry Chen (Greylock), Steve Krausz (U.S. Venture Partners (USVP)), Theresia Gouw (aCrew Capital), Andrew McKinzie (aCrew Capital), Shlomo Kramer
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), Sonya Huang (Sequoia Capital), Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Rahul Mehta (DST Global), Matthew Witheiler (Wellington Management), Sahin Boydas, Thom Ruhe
Databricks
Series JDec 2024$10B
$20B
Co-investors: Joshua Kushner (Thrive Capital), Ben Horowitz (Andreessen Horowitz), John Wolff (Insight Partners), Hao Huang (UpHonest Capital), Shawn Dimantha (Angel investor), John Curtius (Cedar Capital Group), Alfred Chuang (Race Capital), Omar Haque (Family Office), Everett Randle (Kleiner Perkins), Florian Seroussi (355 Capital), Peter Sonsini, Jared Sleeper, Chintan Patel, Miras Mami, Mattia Astori
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), Carl Eschenbach (Sequoia Capital), David Schneider (Coatue)
Wiz
Series EMay 2024$1B
Series DFeb 2023$300M
$1.9B
Co-investors: Saam Motamedi (Greylock), Asheem Chandna (Greylock), Shardul Shah (Index Ventures), Douglas Leone (Sequoia Capital), Arsham Memarzadeh (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sarah Wang (Andreessen Horowitz), Jeff Horing (Insight Partners), Gili Raanan (Cyberstarts VC), Patrick Backhouse (Greenoaks Capital), Hans Tung (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Brett Rochkind (SoftBank Investment Advisers), Nowi Kallen (Salesforce Ventures), Miyuki Matsumoto (Aglae Ventures), Howard Schultz, Bernard Arnault
Faire
Series GNov 2021$600M
Series FJun 2021$260M
Series EOct 2020$170M
Series DOct 2019$150M
Series CDec 2018$60M
Series BDec 2018$40M
$1.7B
Co-investors: Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital), Jess Lee (Sequoia Capital), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Ravi Gupta (Sequoia Capital), Alex Taussig (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Brian Pokorny (SV Angel), Anu Hariharan (Y Combinator), Jeff Crowe (Norwest Venture Partners), Lauren Farleigh (Mischief Venture Capital)
ThoughtSpot
Series FNov 2021$100M
Series EAug 2019$250M
$640M
Co-investors: Arif Janmohamed (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Jai Das (Sapphire Ventures), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Jamie Montgomery (March Capital), Sudheesh Nair