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Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm headquartered on prestigious Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, CA. The also have offices in Israel and China. Lightspeed focuses on investments in datacenter infrastructure, enterprise automation, digital media & consumer electronics, semiconductors, Internet and e-commerce, communications infrastructure and emerging technologies.

The following are Lightspeed’s current investments… Datacenter Infrastructure Avamar Technologies Calista Technologies Identity Engines MonoSphere NeoScale Systems Pivot 3 ScaleMP

Enterprise Automation Apptera Celequest Exigen Group OpTier PSS Systems SailPoint Technologies Skybox Security Transparency Software

Digital Media and Consumer Electronics Audio Pixels D2Audio Lucky Pai Rhythm NewMedia Royalty Services SiPort Softier Teralane Semiconductor TZero Technologies

Communications Infrastructure Flixster Gmedia Kosmix Corporation Mercantila MyBuys Rockyou! StreetFire TheFind Tippit Wikio

Semiconductors Ellacoya Networks Personeta Riverbed Technology WeFi Wirefree Partners

Cleantech AMEC Aquantia BlazeDFM Golden Gate Technology Nufern SemEquip Teem Photonics UCLT Unity Semiconductor

Services/Other Coaltek Exclara Mobius Power Stion Grande Communications Masergy

Milestones

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Investments

Videos

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1. Link_A_Media takes $18M for data recovery (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
2. LS9, Inc.: Series C $25M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
3. SkyFire Raises $5 Million More For Rich Mobile Browser (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. WeFi’s Directory Nearly 30 Million WiFi Hotspots Strong, Raises More Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Bling Nation raises $8M for cell phone payment system (digital.venturebeat.com) [edit]
6. TechCrunch []
7. Solazyme Snags $57M to Make Algal Oil for Cars and Salad (greentechmedia.com) [edit]
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9. Semiconductor Memory Start-up Unity Semiconductor Closes $22m Series C Financing (unitysemi.com) [edit]
10. Fusion-io Raises $47.5 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
11. Pliant Tech Raises $15 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
12. Outbrain Raises $12 Million Series B; Massive $18 Million Total Funding To-Date (centernetworks.com) [edit]
13. Delphix raises $8M for database management (venturebeat.com) [edit]
14. Provigent takes $10M for wireless chips (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
15. Kosmix Raises $20 Million More For Its Universal Search Engine (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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17. Apptera Raises $10.5 million for Mobile Advertising (startupmeme.com) [edit]
18. Game Site Casual Collective Gets $1 Million Funding, Relaunches (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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20. OpTier Raises $63M in Fourth Round of Funding (optier.com) [edit]
21. Aprius Raises $20M to Advance I/O Virtualization Systems (aprius.com) [edit]
22. techcrunch.com [edit]
23. SailPoint Secures $6.5 Million from Existing Investors (sailpoint.com) [edit]
24. Algae Oil Maker Solazyme Gets $45.4 Million More (greentechmedia.com) [edit]
25. TutorVista.com gets $18-m PE funding (economictimes.indiatimes.com) [edit]
26. Skyfire scores $13 million in funding (mobilecrunch.com) [edit]
27. paidcontent.org (paidcontent.org) [edit]
28. Serious Business Raises $4 Million For Facebook Apps (paidcontent.org) [edit]
29. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
30. Flixster Raises $5 Million Of Planned $8 Million Second Round; No Sale (paidcontent.org) [edit]
31. paidcontent.org (paidcontent.org) [edit]
32. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
33. Aquantia Closes $26 M Series B Funding Round (aquantia.com) [edit]
34. Vertical Search Firm Kosmix Raises $10 Million Third Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
35. MyBuys, behavioral targeting for online retailers, raises $10M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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38. thealarmclock.com [edit]
39. Star Analytics, data integration company, raises $3.5M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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41. Mobius Power, secretive battery company, raises $4.5M (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
42. IceBreaker Secures $7.2 Million in Funding for Mobile Social Networking Platform (icebreaker.mobi) [edit]
43. Photovoltaic Startup, Stion Raises $15 Million in Series B Financing (compoundsemi.com) [edit]
44. Venture Beat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
45. VCs Back WeFi For WiFi Location Network (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
46. paidcontent.org (paidcontent.org) [edit]
47. venturebeat.com [edit]
48. Alarm:clock (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
49. techcrunch.com []
50. Clean Coal Maker CoalTek Raises $33M (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
51. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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53. Calista Technologies to Deliver Zero-Touch Access to Windows Vista (findarticles.com) [edit]
54. Techcrunch article (techcrunch.com) [edit]
55. SailPoint Secures $10 Million in Series B Funding (sailpoint.com) [edit]
56. vccafe.com [edit]
57. siliconbeat.com []
58. China’s AMEC Raises $35M (redherring.com) [edit]
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61. venturebeat.com [edit]
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