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Alex Kayyal

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Alex Kayyal is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, specializing in SaaS investments, with a notable background as the former Managing Partner at Salesforce Ventures. His career highlights include leading investments in companies like Snyk (Series F) and Front (Series D), showcasing his expertise in venture capital and business development.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2023 - Current

    Focus on SaaS investments across all stages. Ping me if you're building something big in software!

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

  • SVP & Managing Partner, Salesforce Ventures

    2021 - 2023

  • SVP, Head of International (EMEA, APAC & LATAM)

    2021 - 2021

  • VP, Head of International (EMEA, APAC & LATAM)

    2020 - 2021

  • VP, Head of EMEA & APAC

    2019 - 2020

  • VP, Head of EMEA

    2018 - 2019

  • Senior Director, Head of EMEA

    2016 - 2018

  • Director, Head of EMEA

    2015 - 2016

Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.

Raised $65,375,124.00 from Starboard Value.

  • Investor

    2022 - 2023

Miro is a visual collaboration platform that provides an intuitive, engaging, and in-person collaboration experience for every team.

Raised $476,300,000.00 from Atlassian, Daniel Springer, TCV, Frank Slootman, Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, ICONIQ Growth, Salesforce Ventures, GIC and Accel.

  • Investor

    2021 - 2023

  • Investor

    2021 - 2023

Popmenu is a SaaS company that helps restaurants turn their menu into a customer conversion engine.

Raised $87,144,981.00 from Base10 Partners, Felicis, Bedrock, Tiger Global Management and Salesforce Ventures.

  • Investor

    2021 - 2023

LinearB's Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) platform translates insights from engineering data into powerful workflow automations.

Raised $70,600,000.00 from Battery Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Tribe Capital and 83North.

  • Investor

    2021 - 2023

Genesis Global is a rapid software application development platform purpose built for financial markets firms.

Raised $269,800,000.00 from Citi, BNY, Bank of America and Salesforce Ventures.

  • Investor

    2021 - 2023

  • Investor

    2021 - 2023

  • Investor

    2020 - 2023

Gong is a technology company that offers a revenue intelligence platform using AI to analyze customer interactions.

Raised $583,000,000.00 from Coatue, Sequoia Capital, Thrive Capital, Skip Capital, Tiger Global Management, Salesforce Ventures and Franklin Templeton.

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