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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
Board Member
2025 - Current
The Trade Desk (NASDAQ: TTD) is the leading technology platform for the buyers of advertising.
The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
Raised $257,500,000.00 from Citibank, City National Bank, East West Bank, U.S. Bancorp, Bridge Bank and Opus Bank.
Partner
2023
$29BN global venture capital fund
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
Investor & board member
2013
- Aiven - Algolia (board member) - Atlan (board member) - Bluebirds - Contentful - Darwinbox (board member) - Fabric Health - Front (board member) - Genesis Global - Gong - Hopin - Intenseyse (board member) - LinearB (board member) - Miro - monday.com, NASDAQ: MNDY - NewVoiceMedia, acquired by Vonage (board member) - Onfido, acquired by Entrust (board member) - Popmenu - Privitar, acquired by Informatica - Redkix, acquired by Facebook - Sequence - SessionM, acquired by Mastercard - Snyk - Tennr (board member) - The Trade Desk, NASDAQ: TTD - WeFox - Yellow.ai - Zoomin Software, acquired by Salesforce (board member) - Wiz
SVP & Managing Partner, Salesforce Ventures
2021 - 2023
SVP, Head of International, Salesforce Ventures
2021 - 2021
VP, Head of International, Salesforce Ventures
2018 - 2021
Senior Director, Europe Head, Salesforce Ventures
2016 - 2018
Director, Europe Head, Salesforce Ventures
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.
Venture Growth Investor
2013 - 2015
Founder & CEO
2012 - 2012
IPO and M&A Advisory
2006 - 2009
Office of the CFO
2005 - 2006
The Rand Group is a San Francisco-based wealth management team led by Managing Director Daniella Rand.