Lightyear Lightspeed: to infinity and beyond - Lightspeed Venture Partners
Talks about Lightyear investment, Lightspeed Ventures and fintech
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Adrian Nicholas Radu
Partner at Lightspeed
New York, New York
Overview
Adrian Nicholas Radu is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners in New York, specializing in investments in various sectors including Travel, Security, and FinTech. With a background in Economics and Management, he has successfully invested in numerous companies like Payhawk, Lightyear, and Stripe, showcasing strong skills in market analysis and strategic decision-making.
Radu's career highlights include his role as an Investor and Board Observer at various successful startups, as well as his expertise in identifying and supporting early-stage companies through Series B investments in sectors such as Gaming/eSports and Marketplaces.
Work Experience
Partner
2021 - Current
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
Investor and Board Observer
2022
PayHawk provides payment processing solutions for small to large businesses.
Investor and Board Observer
2022
Investor
2023
Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses.
Raised $9,440,247,725.00 from E1 Ventures.
Investor
2021
Alloy is a developer of an identity verification platform used to detect fraud and make identity management effective and simple for banks.
Raised $216,660,000.00 from Avid Ventures, Felicis, Canapi Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Avenir, Eniac Ventures, Avid Ventures, Felicis and Canapi Ventures.
Investor
2022
Investor
2023
Wiz is a cybersecurity company developing a cloud security platform to help businesses secure their infrastructure.
Raised $2,000,000,000.00 from SoftBank Vision Fund.
Investor
2021
ClickUp is an IT firm that offers IT, marketing, engineering, design, and operations solutions and products to improve workplace efficiency.
Raised $537,500,000.00 from Tiger Global Management, Meritech Capital Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz.
Investor
2022
Ngrok is an API-first ingress-as-a-service platform that helps developers build their apps faster and more securely with no code changes.
Raised $50,000,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Coatue.
Investor
2022
Education
MSc Investment and Wealth Management
2016 - 2017
BSc
2012 - 2015