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James Ephrati

Growth Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

New York, New York

Overview 

James Ephrati is a Growth Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners in New York, with a background in investment banking and private equity. He has successfully navigated roles at Battery Ventures, Moelis & Company, Citi, and Bedrock Group, demonstrating a strong track record in finance and strategic investments. Ephrati's career highlights include his current position at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he focuses on growth-stage investments, and his experience at Battery Ventures, where he specialized in private equity investments.

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

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