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Mark Xu

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

New York City Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Mark Xu is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners in New York City, specializing in investing in Series A, Series B, and Seed stage companies in sectors such as Enterprise and Consumer Internet. With a background in investment banking, business development, and software engineering, Mark has leveraged his diverse skill set to successfully lead investment strategies and drive growth for portfolio companies. Mark's career highlights include his role as a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he has played a key role in identifying and investing in promising startups, and his experience in investment banking at Citi, where he honed his financial acumen and deal-making skills.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2025 - Current

Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps the entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.

  • Investor

    2023 - 2025

Grafana Accelerator Program offer grants, equity financing, and developer access for early-stage companies.

  • Investor

    2023 - 2025

Wiz is a cybersecurity company developing a cloud security platform to help businesses secure their infrastructure.

Raised $2,000,000,000.00 from SoftBank Vision Fund.

  • Investor

    2023 - 2025

  • Investor

    2023 - 2025

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.

  • Investor

    2023 - 2025

Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses.

Raised $9,440,247,725.00 from E1 Ventures.

  • Investor

    2023 - 2025

Verkada is a cloud-based physical security platform provider helping enterprises operate safer, smarter buildings.

Raised $444,299,996.00 from Felicis, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Alkeon Capital, Section Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Friends & Family Capital, Quiet Capital, Sequoia Capital, Linse Capital and Felicis.

  • Partner

    2022 - 2025

    Investments include Wiz, Grafana, Glean, Anduril, Verkada, Cato Networks, Stripe, Axonius, Redpanda

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

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