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James Alcorn
Partner at Lightspeed
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
James Alcorn is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in investing in various sectors including Supply Chain Tech, AI, and FinTech at Series A and Seed stages. With a background in investment roles at Zetta Venture Partners and Spectrum Equity, James has successfully led investments in companies like Cleric and holds board positions at multiple tech startups, showcasing his expertise in identifying and supporting innovative ventures.
Work Experience
Partner
2024 - Current
Angel to Factory, Coactive, Augmental, DubClub, Morph Labs, Sphere and others.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
Investor
2025
Series A for LSVP
Investor
2025
Co-led Series A for LSVP
Investor
2024
Led Series A for LSVP
Investor
2025
LSVP led Series E
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that focuses on increasing the safety of large-scale AI systems.
Raised $13,740,377,627.00 from Amazon.
Investor
2025
Series Seed for LSVP
Board Director
2023 - 2024
Led Seed for Zetta
Board Director
2022 - 2024
Co-led Seed for Zetta. Acquired by Hugging Face.
Board Director
2021 - 2024
Led Pre-Seed for Zetta
Board Director
2020 - 2024
Led Seed for Zetta