Investing Profile

James Ephrati

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Partner & Head of Reinvestment at Lightspeed Venture Partners
lsvp.com/team/james-ephratiSan Francisco, California
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Networks James is a member of
University of California, Berkeley Network
700 CONNECTIONS
Citi Network
374 CONNECTIONS
Battery Ventures Network
118 CONNECTIONS
Lightspeed Venture Partners Network
109 CONNECTIONS
Lightspeed Venture Partners Network
109 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout Partner
Investment Range
$3.0M - $20.0M
Sweet Spot
$15.0M
Investments On Record
50

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James Ephrati's Investments On Record (16)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Ramp
Series FJun 2026$750M
Series UnknownNov 2025$300M
Series EJul 2025$500M
$3B
Co-investors: Guillaume Cabane (Sequoia Capital), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Kareem Zaki (Thrive Capital), Alex Tran (General Catalyst), Kenneth Chenault (General Catalyst), Joe Lonsdale (8VC), Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Joshua Kushner (Thrive Capital), Napoleon Ta (Founders Fund), Samir Kaul (Khosla Ventures), Talia Goldberg (Bessemer Venture Partners), Brian Feinstein (Bessemer Venture Partners), Adam Rothenberg (BoxGroup), Ravi Gupta (Sequoia Capital), Brandon Reeves (Lux Capital), Deena Shakir (Lux Capital), Teddy Citrin (Greycroft), Will Kohler (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Peter Thiel (The Founders Fund), Justin Overdorff (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Gregg Smith (Evolution VC Partners), Eric Tarczynski (Contrary Capital), Josh Wolfe (Lux Research), Chafic Kazoun (Self-employed), Koda Wang (Giant Ventures), Edward Lando (Biowear), Scott Belsky (A24), Seth Rosenberg (Greylock Partners), Daniel Scott (Susquehanna Capital)
Eve
Series BSep 2025$100M
Series AJan 2025$47M
SeedOct 2023$14M
$170M
Co-investors: David Haber (Andreessen Horowitz), James Kuklinski (Spark Capital), Tim Tully (Menlo Ventures), Guru Chahal (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Ravi Mhatre (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Chris Dixon (Curated), 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: Yoni Cheifetz (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Jerry Chen (Greylock), Steve Krausz (U.S. Venture Partners (USVP)), Shlomo Kramer (Skinos Family Office), Theresia Gouw (aCrew Capital), Ravi Mhatre (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout)
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: Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Sonya Huang (Sequoia Capital), Shravan Narayen (IVP), Tamar Yehoshua (IVP), Ajay Vashee (IVP), Somesh Dash (IVP), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Thom Ruhe (NC IDEA), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Ravi Mhatre (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Rahul Mehta (DST Global), Matthew Witheiler (Flybridge Capital Partners)
Databricks
Series JDec 2024$10B
$31B
Co-investors: Ben Horowitz (Andreessen Horowitz), David George (Andreessen Horowitz), John Curtius (Tiger Global Management), John Wolff (Insight Partners), Joshua Kushner (Thrive Capital), Everett Randle (Benchmark), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Hao Huang (UpHonest Capital), Shahin Farshchi (Lux Capital), Peter Sonsini (The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. New Incubation Ventures), Alfred Chuang (Race Capital), Jared Sleeper (Avenir), Florian Seroussi (355 Capital), Chintan Patel (Venture Guides), Omar Haque (Brookfield Asset Management), Shawn Dimantha (Self-employed), 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 Management)
Wiz
Series EMay 2024$1B
Series DFeb 2023$300M
$1.9B
Co-investors: Bogomil Balkansky (Sequoia Capital), Shardul Shah (Index Ventures), Jeff Horing (Insight Partners), Douglas Leone (Sequoia Capital), Sarah Wang (Andreessen Horowitz), Saam Motamedi (Greylock), Miyuki Matsumoto (Aglae Ventures), Nowi Kallen (Salesforce Ventures), Brett Rochkind (SoftBank Investment Advisers), Hans Tung (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Gili Raanan (Cyberstarts VC), Howard Schultz (Schultz Family Foundation), Patrick Backhouse (Greenoaks Capital), Arsham Memarzadeh (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Asheem Chandna (Greylock Partners), Bernard Arnault
Verkada
Series DOct 2023$100M
$690M
Co-investors: Aydin Senkut (Felicis Ventures), Deep Nishar (General Catalyst), Gaurav Gupta (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Micah Rosenbloom (Founder Collective), Mike Vernal (Sequoia Capital), Alex Kurland (Meritech Capital Partners), Bill Trenchard (First Round Capital), Derek Zanutto (CapitalG), Aidan Madigan-Curtis (Eclipse Ventures), Lak Ananth (Next47), Victor Hwang (MSD Partners)

James Ephrati's Experience

Asset Management Bedrock GroupPresent
Risk CitiPresent
Investment Banking Moelis & CompanyPresent
Growth & Private Equity Battery VenturesPresent
Board Observer GleanPresent
Board Member ExabeamPresent
Board Member Aqua SecurityPresent
Board Member ThoughtSpotPresent
Board Observer YugabytePresent
Board Observer Grafana LabsPresent
Investor CyeraPresent
Board Member Mistral AIPresent
Partner & Head of Reinvestment Lightspeed Venture PartnersPresent
Growth Partner Lightspeed Venture PartnersPresent

James Ephrati's Education

University of California, Berkeley B.A. Economics Industrial Engineering Minor

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