{"id":193723,"date":"2025-12-15T23:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/193723\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T23:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:30:06","slug":"lightspeed-raises-record-9b-in-fresh-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/193723\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightspeed raises record $9B in fresh capital"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a surge of VC investments from the 2021 bubble failed to yield strong returns<\/a> from many venture firms, limited partners, such as endowments, pension plans, and sovereign wealth funds began to funnel a greater share<\/a> of their capital into a select group of established firms with proven track records.<\/p>\n

The latest huge capital haul has come to Lightspeed Venture Partners. The 25-year-old venture firm announced Monday that it raised a total of $9 billion<\/a> in fresh funds, the largest fundraise in firm\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

At a time when very few companies have managed to IPO, Lightspeed was an early investor in Rubrik<\/a>, Netskope<\/a>, and Navan<\/a>, all of which have recently made their public market debuts.<\/p>\n

The firm has also positioned itself as a predominantly AI-focused investor. Lightspeed claims to have backed 165 AI-native companies, including Anthropic, xAI, Databricks, Mistral, Glean, Abridge, and Skild AI.<\/p>\n

Armed with its giant new fund, the firm can continue to make massive investments into capital-intensive AI companies. For instance, Lightspeed reportedly wrote a $1 billion check to Anthropic when it co-led the LLM-maker\u2019s $13 billion<\/a> investment in September.<\/p>\n

Lightspeed\u2019s new capital is spread across six funds, including a $3.3 billion opportunity fund dedicated to follow-on investments in its fastest-growing portfolio companies.<\/p>\n

Other large VC firms that have recently raised enormous capital pools include Founders Fund, which earlier this year amassed $4.6 billion<\/a> for a growth fund, as well as General Catalyst\u2019s $8 billion<\/a> capital haul and Andreessen Horowitz\u2019s $7.2 billion<\/a>, both secured in 2024.<\/p>\n

Techcrunch event<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, younger and smaller VC firms are struggling<\/a> to attract fresh funds. According to PitchBook data, 2025 is on pace to record the fewest VC fund closings in the past 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a surge of VC investments from the 2021 bubble failed to yield strong returns from many venture…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[72,191,61,2029,60,41717,61825],"class_list":{"0":"post-193723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-entrepreneurship","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-in-brief","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-lightspeed-venture-capital","14":"tag-limited-partners"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}