James Ephrati
Growth Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Growth Partner
2019 - Current
Boards: Grafana, Aqua, Exabeam, Glean, Thoughtspot, Yugabyte, and Yellow.AI Investor: Wiz, Cato Networks, Arctic Wolf, Faire, Betterup, Carta, Alloy, Enable, Verkada, Axonius, Redpanda, Nirvana, Handshake, Multiverse, Vinted, Affirm, Typeface, Anduril
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
Board Observer
2024
Grafana Accelerator Program offer grants, equity financing, and developer access for early-stage companies.
Board Observer
2022
Glean develops an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data and generates answers through a tool in any company.
Raised $618,200,000.00 from Coatue, Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst, ICONIQ Growth, Cacti, Latitude Capital, Craft Ventures, Altimeter, Lightspeed Venture Partners and SoftBank Vision Fund.
Board Member
2023
ThoughtSpot is the AI-Powered Analytics company. Its mission is to create a fact-driven world with the easiest to use analytics platform.
Raised $663,700,000.00 from 2Shares and IPOSharks.
Board Member
2023
Exabeam is a global cybersecurity leader that delivers AI-driven security operations. Learn more at www.exabeam.com.
Raised $391,000,000.00 from SharesPro.
Board Member
2023
Board Member
2023
Yellow.ai is a conversational AI platform, enabling enterprises to unlock business potential at scale.
Raised $102,150,000.00 from WestBridge Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sapphire Ventures.
Board Observer
2023
Yugabyte is an open-source distributed SQL database for customers in industries such as cybersecurity, financial markets, and IoT.
Raised $291,000,000.00 from Dell Technologies Capital, Alkeon Capital, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, 8VC, Sapphire Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Wipro Ventures.
Growth & Private Equity
2017 - 2019
Sourced or executed the following investments: • Mews Systems $33m Series B • Curve Dental • WebPT’s acquisition of BMS
Battery Ventures is a investment firm that focuses on technology.
Investment Banking
2014 - 2017