Lightspeed Venture Partners

Digital investment platform company announced a SPAC merger to go public. Looking at the details and what's next for the company. Digital investment platform Webull Corporation is going public via a SPAC merger announced Wednesday. The news comes years after reports that Webull was nearing an...

French startup Mistral AI raised $415 million, or €385 million, as part of a series A funding round. Lightspeed Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz were among the main investors. Salesforce (NASDAQ:CRM), BNP Paribas (OTCQX:BNPQF), CMA-CGM, General Catalyst, Mixer Labs co-founder Elad Gil, and...

Cryptocurrency exchange and wallet provider, Blockchain.com, has secured $110 million in a fresh round of funding, as reported by CoinDesk. What Happened: As per the information shared by Bloomberg, the recent Series E funding round was led by UK’s Kingsway Capital. Other participants...

Following Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.K. economy was expected to shrink. And it did. However, major investment firms haven't given up on London. For example, Andreessen Horowitz picked London as its international base. “This is a win for us,” said London & Partners...

A leading NFT marketplace announced a new funding round Tuesday. Here’s a look at who are the new investors, what the funds will go towards and how much the company is worth. What Happened: NFT marketplace Magic Eden announced the closing of a $130 million Series B funding round...

Land sales in virtual worlds such as The Sandbox (CRYPTO: SAND) and Decentraland (CRYPTO: MANA) have skyrocketed over the past year. One company is attracting investments from big investors and celebrities as it buys up virtual land and attempts to be a huge company inside the...

Trading.TV, a social live stream and immersive chat platform for traders and financial content creators, announced Thursday that it raised $8 million in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Trading.TV is launching an iOS, Android and desktop platform as well. Benzinga spoke...

Influencer marketing, which is on track to become a $15 billion industry by 2022, is a unique way for creators to monetize their content and outreach. The problem with this industry is both the supply and demand dynamics, as well as an unfulfilling culture, according to some. More and more,...

Social media influencers and entrepreneurs Josh Richards, Griffin Johnson and Noah Beck, in partnership with Marshall Sandman and Michael Gruen, launched Animal Capital. What Happened: As society transitions from the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, into the so-called "Roaring Twenties,...

Multiverse, a U.K.-based ed-tech company, on Jan. 19 formally announced the closure of a $44 million Series B round led by General Catalyst, with participation from Google Ventures, Audacious Ventures, Latitude, SemperVirens, Index Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. As part of the...

Evan Spiegel had an offer on the table to sell his company, Snapchat, to Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) in 2013 for $3 billion. Spiegel refused the offer and felt he could grow the social media company, now called Snap, over the years. His decision proved to be the right one and many of his backers and...

Jessica Alba's Honest Co., the shopping startup best known for creating diapers, sunscreens and cleaning products, is not in a rush to go public, reported Bloomberg, referring to the sources close to the company. Honest Co. posted revenue of about $275 million in 2015, significantly higher than the...

Gaurav Banga, CEO and co-founder of Bromium, stopped by CNBC Squawk Box today to talk about computer security, and how their products keep their clients free of compromise. Banga started off by explaining that within the world of computer security, you make lists. There's one for good software...