Snap. Affirm. Rubrik. All Lightspeed bets before they broke out.

Why Lightspeed Portfolio Companies?

Lightspeed doesn't spray capital. They wrote the first check into Snap in 2012. They led the Series A at Grafana. They led the Series A at Rubrik before it IPO'd at $5B+. When Lightspeed backs a company, it's a concentrated bet with operational support — design, engineering, and recruiting partners embedded in portfolio companies.

1. Abnormal Security — $5.1B · Series D

What they do: AI-native email security platform that stops sophisticated phishing, social engineering, and executive impersonation by learning what "normal" looks like for every person in an organization. Trusted by enterprises across financial services, healthcare, and tech.

Why it matters: Attackers are now using AI to target people in ways legacy tools can't detect. Abnormal is the defense layer built to keep up. Backed by Lightspeed, Greylock, and Insight Partners.

Location: SF / Remote 🔗 abnormal.ai/careers/open-roles

2. Grafana Labs — $6B · Series E

What they do: The world's most popular open-source observability platform. 20M+ users monitor everything from NASA missions to Goldman Sachs trading systems using Grafana dashboards, Loki, Tempo, and Mimir. Trusted by 3,000+ companies on Grafana Cloud.

Why it matters: Every company running software needs observability. Grafana is the default. Backed by Lightspeed, GIC, and Coatue. 36 open roles.

Location: Remote (global) 🔗 job-boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs

3. Temporal — $2.5B · Series D

What they do: Workflow orchestration platform for durable execution. Developers write business logic; Temporal handles failure, retries, and state management automatically. Used by Stripe, Netflix, Datadog, DoorDash, and Box.

Why it matters: AI agents need reliable orchestration. Temporal is becoming the default infrastructure layer for the agentic era. Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia, and Madrona. 50 open roles.

Location: Seattle / Remote 🔗 job-boards.greenhouse.io/temporaltechnologies

4. Granola — $1.5B · Series C

What they do: AI meeting notepad that runs locally, transcribes in real time, and generates structured notes the moment a call ends. No bots, no recording requests — just notes.

Why it matters: One of the fastest-growing AI productivity tools among operators and executives. Consistently rated the best meeting notes app by power users. Backed by Lightspeed, General Catalyst, and Sequoia.

Location: London / SF / Remote 🔗 granola.ai/jobs

5. Pika Labs — $115M raised · Series B

What they do: Next-generation AI video generation platform building agentic real-time generative infrastructure for creators, enterprises, and AI-native media products.

Why it matters: Stanford-founded team at the frontier of generative video. Backed by Lightspeed and Kleiner Perkins. One of the defining AI creative platforms of 2025–2026. 3 open roles.

Location: Palo Alto / Remote 🔗 jobs.ashbyhq.com/pika

6. Faire — $12B · Series G

What they do: B2B wholesale marketplace connecting independent brands with 700,000+ retailers globally across 100,000+ brands. The operating system for independent retail.

Why it matters: Faire is reshaping how $100B+ in wholesale moves between brands and retailers. Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia, and Y Combinator. 65+ open roles.

Location: SF / London / Remote 🔗 faire.com/careers/openings

7. BetterUp — $4.7B · Series E

What they do: AI-powered coaching and leadership development platform combining professional coaching with behavioral science at scale. Trusted by 500+ enterprise customers including Salesforce, NASA, and Hilton.

Why it matters: The largest coaching platform in the world. FORTUNE Best Workplace in Tech. Backed by Lightspeed, Salesforce Ventures, and Operator Collective. 33 open roles.

Location: SF / Remote 🔗 jobs.ashbyhq.com/betterup

8. Resolve AI — $1B · Series A

What they do: Autonomous AI production engineer that investigates and resolves complex system issues end-to-end across code, infra, and telemetry — without human intervention. Used by Coinbase, DoorDash, MSCI, and Zscaler.

Why it matters: $190M raised. Founded by the core creators of OpenTelemetry. Backed by Lightspeed, Jeff Dean, Reid Hoffman, Fei-Fei Li, Thomas Dohmke, and Matt Garman. 10 open roles.

Location: SF / Remote 🔗 resolve.ai/careers

9. Skild AI — $14B · Series C

What they do: General-purpose robotic intelligence — the "brain" that controls any robot across any task without reprogramming. Deploying on Foxconn's Blackwell GPU assembly lines with ABB, Universal Robots, and NVIDIA.

Why it matters: Founded by CMU professors Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta. $1.4B raised. Reached $30M revenue in 2025. Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia, SoftBank, and Jeff Bezos. 20 open roles.

Location: Pittsburgh / Remote 🔗 job-boards.greenhouse.io/skildai-careers

10. Verkada — $5.8B · Series E

What they do: Enterprise physical security platform — cloud-managed cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, and intercoms in one unified system. The largest cloud-based B2B physical security company in the world.

Why it matters: Stanford-founded. Now building human-equivalent AI security agents. Trusted by enterprises, hospitals, schools, and government agencies globally. Backed by Lightspeed and Sequoia. 64+ open roles.

Location: San Mateo / Remote 🔗 job-boards.greenhouse.io/verkada

11. Inworld AI — $125M · Series B

What they do: Realtime AI company building best-in-class multimodal models and the only realtime orchestration platform optimized for thousands of queries per second. Powers experiences for NVIDIA, Microsoft Xbox, and Niantic.

Why it matters: Named to LinkedIn's Top 10 Startups in the USA. Backed by Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, Microsoft M12, Founders Fund, and Meta. 5–8 open roles.

Location: SF / Remote 🔗 inworld.ai/careers

12. Ramp — $32B · Series F

What they do: Finance operations platform processing $200B+ in annualized spend across 70,000+ companies. Combines corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, and accounting automation in one platform.

Why it matters: One of the fastest-growing fintech companies ever. Customers save 5% and close books 8x faster. Lightspeed led the $300M Series F in December 2025.

Location: NYC / SF 🔗 jobs.ashbyhq.com/ramp

13. Fireworks AI — $4B · Series C

What they do: AI inference platform processing 10 trillion+ tokens per day for 10,000+ customers. Independently benchmarked as the fastest LLM inference in the industry. Built by veterans from Meta PyTorch and Google Vertex AI.

Why it matters: $315M ARR. Recently acquired Hathora for global real-time compute. Partnership with Microsoft Azure Foundry. Backed by Lightspeed, Benchmark, and Sequoia.

Location: San Mateo / Remote 🔗 job-boards.greenhouse.io/fireworksai

14. Exa — $2.2B · Series C

What they do: AI search engine built from scratch for AI applications. Powers search for Cursor, Cognition, HubSpot, and 400,000+ developers with state-of-the-art embedding models and vector databases in Rust.

Why it matters: $350M raised. 60-person team from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Apple, and Google. The search infrastructure layer for the AI agent era. Backed by Lightspeed, Benchmark, and a16z.

Location: SF (in-office) 🔗 jobs.ashbyhq.com/exa

15. Farther — Unicorn · Series D

What they do: AI-powered wealth management platform partnering with independent financial advisors to deliver personalized, tech-enabled wealth management and financial planning.

Why it matters: The infrastructure managing $300 trillion in assets was built in the 90s. Farther is the modern alternative. $72M Series D raised May 2026. Backed by Lightspeed and Bessemer. 32 open roles.

Location: SF / Remote 🔗 job-boards.greenhouse.io/fartherfinance

16. Chainguard — $3.5B · Series D

What they do: Trusted source for open source. Delivers hardened, secure, production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on. Customers include Canva, OpenAI, Snap, and Snowflake.

Why it matters: As AI agents consume more open source at scale, securing that supply chain becomes mission-critical. Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, IVP, and Spark Capital. 10+ open roles.

Location: Remote (US) 🔗 job-boards.greenhouse.io/chainguard

17. Multiverse — $1.7B · Series D

What they do: AI upskilling and apprenticeship platform partnering with 1,500+ companies to deliver structured AI, data, and tech skills programs. The UK's first EdTech unicorn.

Why it matters: As AI reshapes every job, structured upskilling at scale becomes the enterprise imperative. Lightspeed co-led the $220M Series D. Just raised fresh capital in May 2026. 37 open roles.

Location: London / NYC / Remote 🔗 jobs.ashbyhq.com/multiverse

18. Whatnot — $11.5B · Series F

What they do: Livestream shopping marketplace for collectors and enthusiasts. $8B+ in GMV in 2025. #1 Shopping app in the US and UK. Users spend ~95 minutes per day on the platform — closer to Netflix than Amazon.

Why it matters: 20M+ new accounts created in 2025. 900-person team expanding globally. Lightspeed participated in both the Series E and Series F in 2025.

Location: LA / SF / NYC / Remote 🔗 jobs.ashbyhq.com/whatnot

19. Moment — $134M raised · Series C

What they do: AI operating system for investment management. Works with firms managing $10T+ in client assets including Edward Jones, LPL Financial, and Hightower Advisors. Founded by ex-Citadel Securities and Jane Street quants.

Why it matters: The infrastructure managing the world's wealth is 30+ years old. Moment is the AI-native replacement. Backed by Lightspeed, Index, and a16z.

Location: NYC (in-office) 🔗 jobs.ashbyhq.com/moment

20. Mithril — $80M · Series A

What they do: AI infrastructure platform making GPU compute more accessible and affordable for enterprises, AI startups, and research labs. Platform revenue grew 6x+ in the past year.

Why it matters: Named Fast Company's 8th Most Innovative AI Company for 2026. Trusted by LG AI Research and the Broad Institute. Lightspeed co-led the Series A with Sequoia. 4 open roles.

Location: Palo Alto / SF 🔗 job-boards.greenhouse.io/mithril

List verified June 2026. Job postings change fast — check each careers page directly for current openings.

Written by Ashher

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