Signal Labs: Building Attention Infrastructure
Lightspeed Venture Partners announced it will lead the Series Seed round for Signal Labs, a startup founded by former Elevance Health and Lyric executive Raj Ronanki. The company is creating an AI‑first “attention infrastructure” that coordinates high‑volume healthcare payment signals—claims, authorizations, and clinical data—to cut claim processing times that can stretch beyond 200 days. By forming trust zones between payers and health systems, Signal Labs aims to eliminate costly middlemen and reduce waste in the payment stack. The founders envision extending this coordination layer to other complex, multi‑party sectors such as cybersecurity, logistics, and energy.
Building the World’s First AI-Native Audit Technology: Our Investment in Modus
Lightspeed Venture Partners is leading an $85 million seed and Series A round in Modus, a startup building the world’s first AI‑native accounting firm. The U.S. audit market, valued at over $50 billion, remains largely untouched by modern technology. Modus plans to acquire...
Paid
Paid, an all‑in‑one business engine for AI agents, announced its platform that automates pricing, subscriptions, margins, billing, and renewals with just a few lines of code. The startup secured seed funding from Lightspeed partner Alexander Schmitt and LSVP, signaling strong...
Beacon Software
Beacon Software announced its executive team, naming Nilam Ganenthiran as Co‑Founder and CEO and Divya Gupta as Co‑Founder and CTO. The firm also disclosed a strategic partnership with Lightspeed, bringing partners Bejul Somaia, Isaac Kim, and Amish Desai to its...
Naboo
Naboo.ai announced a Series B round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with partner Antoine Moyroud joining the deal. The AI‑driven platform automates corporate event planning across the UK and Europe, handling venues, catering, activities, and transport in a single invoice. It...
Axiom Trust
Axiom Trust is a regulated, vertically integrated trust company and technology platform that delivers precise, seamless administration for fiduciaries and private families. The firm emphasizes operational efficiency without competing for the client relationship. Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners with a...
ZyG
ZyG has launched an AI‑driven Growth Engine designed to help early‑stage direct‑to‑consumer (DTC) startups scale their eCommerce operations. The platform delivers product‑market fit analysis, centralized access to third‑party tools, and automated workflows that streamline growth initiatives. ZyG’s leadership team combines...
AnnaRose Hughes
Lightspeed Ventures has named AnnaRose Hughes as Vice President of Executive Talent, overseeing leadership recruitment for its portfolio companies. Hughes brings operational experience from high‑growth firms like Tapestry, Williams‑Sonoma, and TheLadders.com, enabling her to guide founders through scaling challenges. She...
Alexa Boghosian
Alexa Boghosian has joined Lightspeed Venture Partners as a Partner in its Growth Private Equity group, focusing on majority stakes in software and tech‑enabled services platforms. She brings a particular interest in healthcare technology and AI‑enabled services, aiming to build...
Profound
Profound is a GenAI‑powered marketing intelligence platform that gives enterprise brands real‑time visibility into how they appear across AI‑driven discovery channels. The solution combines analytics, competitive intelligence and actionable recommendations across the entire GenAI ecosystem. Founded by Albert Malikov, the...
Stacks AI
Stacks AI develops purpose‑built artificial intelligence solutions for enterprise accounting, automating the most manual and error‑prone finance workflows. The platform enables finance teams to close books faster and redirect effort toward strategic initiatives. It is already trusted by public companies...
Castelion
Castelion, founded in 2025, aims to restore America’s capacity to field advanced weapons quickly and at scale. The company leverages rapid iteration, vertical integration, and scalable manufacturing to deliver affordable, high‑performance defense systems. In 2024 it closed a Series A round...
Temporal
Temporal announced a Series D financing round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing new capital to the open‑source durable execution platform. The round includes Lightspeed partners Anoushka Vaswani, Ravi Mhatre, Bucky Moore and Justin Shen. Temporal’s technology underpins mission‑critical services at...
Tem
Tem, a startup focused on modernizing energy market transactions, announced a Series B financing round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The round, part of its 2026 LSVP Investment, will fund the development of an AI‑powered infrastructure to streamline electricity trading. Co‑founders...
Announcing Our Investment in Temporal: Agents Make Mistakes. Your Workflows Can’t.
Lightspeed announced a strategic investment in Temporal’s $300 million Series D, positioning the durable‑execution platform as essential infrastructure for AI‑driven agents. Temporal’s technology lets agents recover from failures, maintain state, and run for extended periods without manual intervention. The company reports 380%...
