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James Alcorn

Partner at Lightspeed

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

James Alcorn is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in investing in various sectors including Supply Chain Tech, AI, and FinTech at Series A and Seed stages. With a background in investment roles at Zetta Venture Partners and Spectrum Equity, James has successfully led investments in companies like Cleric and holds board positions at multiple tech startups, showcasing his expertise in identifying and supporting innovative ventures.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2024 - Current

    Partner to founders building in AI and infrastructure.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.

  • Board Director

    2023 - 2024

    Led Seed

Cleric is an AI teammate that frees software engineers up from on-call support.

Raised $4,300,000.00 from Zetta Venture Partners.

  • Board Director

    2022 - 2024

    Co-led Seed. Acquired by Hugging Face.

  • Board Director

    2021 - 2024

    Led Pre-Seed

  • Board Director

    2020 - 2024

    Led Seed

  • Board Director

    2020 - 2024

    Led Seed

Featureform specializes in developing an open-source virtual feature store.

Raised $7,500,000.00 from GreatPoint Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Tuesday Capital, Zetta Venture Partners, Alumni Ventures and Half Court Ventures.

  • Board Observer

    2020 - 2024

    Co-led Seed

EnsoData is a startup that utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze the human body to diagnose health conditions.

Raised $31,050,000.00 from M25, Venture Investors, HealthX Ventures, Supermoon Capital, Colle Capital Partners, Justin Mortara, Frederick Robertson, Zetta Venture Partners, Inspire Medical Systems and Supermoon Capital.

  • Partner

    2018 - 2024

    Personal investments: Factory, Coactive, Augmental

  • Investment Team

    2017 - 2018

Spectrum Equity, a private equity firm, provides capital and strategic support to internet, software, and information services companies.

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