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Adrian Nicholas Radu

Partner at Lightspeed

New York, New York

Overview 

Adrian Nicholas Radu is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners in New York, specializing in investments in various sectors including Travel, Security, and FinTech. With a background in Economics and Management, he has successfully invested in numerous companies like Payhawk, Lightyear, and Stripe, showcasing strong skills in market analysis and strategic decision-making. Radu's career highlights include his role as an Investor and Board Observer at various successful startups, as well as his expertise in identifying and supporting early-stage companies through Series B investments in sectors such as Gaming/eSports and Marketplaces.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2021 - Current

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2022

PayHawk provides payment processing solutions for small to large businesses.

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2022

  • Investor

    2023

Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses.

Raised $9,440,247,725.00 from E1 Ventures.

  • Investor

    2021

Alloy is a developer of an identity verification platform used to detect fraud and make identity management effective and simple for banks.

Raised $216,660,000.00 from Avid Ventures, Felicis, Canapi Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Avenir, Eniac Ventures, Avid Ventures, Felicis and Canapi Ventures.

  • Investor

    2023

Wiz is a cybersecurity company developing a cloud security platform to help businesses secure their infrastructure.

Raised $2,000,000,000.00 from SoftBank Vision Fund.

  • Investor

    2021

ClickUp is an IT firm that offers IT, marketing, engineering, design, and operations solutions and products to improve workplace efficiency.

Raised $537,500,000.00 from Tiger Global Management, Meritech Capital Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz.

  • Investor

    2022

Ngrok is an API-first ingress-as-a-service platform that helps developers build their apps faster and more securely with no code changes.

Raised $50,000,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Coatue.

  • Investor

    2022

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