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Lightspeed Venture Partners cybersecurity investments

Lightspeed Venture Partners is named in 26 cybersecurity funding rounds on record since 2022, mostly Series A and seed rounds. It backs application security testing vendors most often.

26rounds
$3.1bntotal disclosed size of those rounds
17categories
2026latest round

Rounds

DateDealCategoryAmountSource
September 2026Cylake raised a convertible noteCylake provides an AI-native cybersecurity platform for air-gapped sovereign environments.Investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Picture Capital and RedpointSIEM$245mReport on the Cylake funding round of September 2026 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
August 2026Oligo Security raised a Series C roundInvestors Ballistic Ventures, Canon Capital, Eyal Waldman, Greenfield Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and 2 moreAST, Application security testing$60mReport on the Oligo Security funding round of August 2026 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
June 2026A Security raised a Series A roundInvestor Lightspeed Venture PartnersPen testing, Penetration testing$32mReport on the A Security funding round of June 2026 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
May 2026Ocean raised a Series A roundInvestor Lightspeed Venture PartnersEmail security$20mReport on the Ocean funding round of May 2026 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
October 2025Descope raised a seed roundDescope provides a customer and agentic identity platform for authentication and authorization.Investors Cerca Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Notable Capital, Triventures and 1 moreCIAM, Customer identity$35mReport on the Descope funding round of October 2025 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
May 2025Cyera raised fundingCyera provides a data security platform that discovers and protects sensitive data across cloud environments.Investors Georgian, Greenoaks and Lightspeed Venture PartnersDSPM, Data security posture management$500mReport on the Cyera funding round of May 2025 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
April 2025Virtue AI raised a Series A roundVirtue AI provides an enterprise AI safety platform for securing AI agents and applications.Investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Walden Catalyst VenturesAI security, AI and LLM security$23mReport on the Virtue AI funding round of April 2025 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
March 2025Straiker raised a Series A roundStraiker provides security teams with tools to discover, test, and defend AI agents in enterprises.Investors Bain Capital Ventures and Lightspeed Venture PartnersAI security, AI and LLM security$21mReport on the Straiker funding round of March 2025 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
January 2025Observo AI raised a Series A roundObservo AI built an AI-native security data pipeline that filtered and enriched telemetry before it reached the SIEM.Investors Felicis and Lightspeed Venture PartnersData pipelines, Security data pipelines$15mReport on the Observo AI funding round of January 2025 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
October 2024Trail Security raised a Series A roundInvestors CRV, Cyberstarts and Lightspeed Venture PartnersDLP, Data loss prevention$35mReport on the Trail Security funding round of October 2024 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
August 2024Clutch Security raised a seed roundInvestor Lightspeed Venture PartnersIAM, Identity and access management$8.5mReport on the Clutch Security funding round of August 2024 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
July 2024Chainguard raised a Series C roundChainguard builds hardened, verified open source container images, libraries and packages to reduce vulnerabilities.Investors Redpoint Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and IVPSCA, Software supply chain and SBOM$140mReport on the Chainguard funding round of July 2024 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
May 2024Wiz raised a Series E roundWiz provides a cloud and AI security platform that connects code, cloud, and runtime for risk reduction and threat response.Investors Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Thrive CapitalCNAPP, Cloud security (CNAPP and CSPM)$1bnReport on the Wiz funding round of May 2024 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
April 2024Scrut Automation raised private equity fundingInvestors Lightspeed Venture Partners, MassMutual Ventures and Endiya PartnersGRC, GRC and compliance automation$10mReport on the Scrut Automation funding round of April 2024 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
March 2024Axonius raised a Series E roundAsset intelligence platform that builds one inventory of every asset from connected IT and security tools to find coverage gaps and prioritise exposures.Investors Accel and Lightspeed Venture PartnersASM, Attack surface management$200mReport on the Axonius funding round of March 2024 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
February 2024p0 raised a seed roundInvestor Lightspeed Venture PartnersAST, Application security testing$6.5mReport on the p0 funding round of February 2024 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
November 2023P0 Security raised a seed roundInvestors Lightspeed Venture Partners and SVAZTNA, Zero trust network access$5mReport on the P0 Security funding round of November 2023 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
September 2023Cato Networks raised fundingCato Networks provides a SASE platform that secures enterprise, cloud and AI interactions.Investor Lightspeed Venture PartnersSASE, SASE and SSE$238mReport on the Cato Networks funding round of September 2023 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
September 2023Patronus AI raised a seed roundInvestor Lightspeed Venture PartnersAI security, AI and LLM security$3mReport on the Patronus AI funding round of September 2023 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
August 2023Endor Labs raised a Series A roundEndor Labs provides an agentic application security platform for AI-generated and open source code.Investors Dell Technologies Capital, Section 32, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Coatue ManagementAST, Application security testing$70mReport on the Endor Labs funding round of August 2023 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
April 2023Semgrep raised a Series C roundSemgrep provides a platform for scanning code and dependencies to find security issues.Investor Lightspeed Venture PartnersAST, Application security testing$53mReport on the Semgrep funding round of April 2023 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
March 2023Wiz raised a Series D roundWiz provides a cloud and AI security platform that connects code, cloud, and runtime for risk reduction and threat response.Investor Lightspeed Venture PartnersCNAPP, Cloud security (CNAPP and CSPM)$300mReport on the Wiz funding round of March 2023 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
February 2023Oligo Security raised a Series A roundInvestor Lightspeed Venture PartnersAST, Application security testing$20mReport on the Oligo Security funding round of February 2023 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
February 2023CommandK raised a seed roundInvestor Lightspeed Venture PartnersSecrets management$3mReport on the CommandK funding round of February 2023 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
October 2022Endor Labs raised a seed roundEndor Labs provides an agentic application security platform for AI-generated and open source code.Investors Dell Technologies Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sierra VenturesAST, Application security testing$25mReport on the Endor Labs funding round of October 2022 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)
June 2022Normalyze raised a Series A roundInvestors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Battery VenturesDSPM, Data security posture management$22mReport on the Normalyze funding round of June 2022 (opens in a new tab)via Security, Funded (opens in a new tab)