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Ravi Mhatre

Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Ravi Mhatre is the Founder and Managing Director of Lightspeed Venture Partners in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a strong track record of investing in successful start-ups and leading strategic partnerships. Notable highlights include being a founding investor and board member for companies like Rubrik, Inc. and ThoughtSpot, as well as leading investments in companies like Nutanix and MuleSoft.

Work Experience 

  • Investor

    2024 - Current

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that focuses on increasing the safety of large-scale AI systems.

Raised $13,740,377,627.00 from Amazon.

  • Founder, Managing Director

    1999

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

  • Founding Investor, Director

    2013

Rubrik offers live data access for recovery and application development by fusing enterprise data management with web-scale IT.

Raised $554,300,000.00 from Spellman Investment Group, SharesPro, Raison, Red Lions Capital, MS&AD Ventures and Irving Investors.

  • Founding Investor, Director

    2019

Glean develops an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data and generates answers through a tool in any company.

Raised $618,200,000.00 from Coatue, Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst, ICONIQ Growth, Cacti, Latitude Capital, Craft Ventures, Altimeter, Lightspeed Venture Partners and SoftBank Vision Fund.

  • Board Member

    2023

  • Founding Investor, Board of Directors

    2012

ThoughtSpot is the AI-Powered Analytics company. Its mission is to create a fact-driven world with the easiest to use analytics platform.

Raised $663,700,000.00 from 2Shares and IPOSharks.

  • Advisory Board Member

    2018 - 2022

    Stanford University Graduate School of Business Trust The Trust Board is involved in managing a portion of the business school's endowment.

  • Investor, Board of Directors

    2014 - 2021

Clever is a digital learning platform designed for K12 schools and used by 22 million students and teachers.

Raised $43,320,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, GSV Ventures, Founders Fund and Sequoia Capital.

  • Lead investor, Series A, Board of Directors (NASD: NTNX)

    2010 - 2021

Nutanix specializes in cloud software, offering organizations a single platform for running apps and data across clouds.

Raised $1,148,886,043.00 from Bain Capital Private Equity.

  • Early Investor, Board of Directors (NYSE: MULE)

    2007 - 2018

MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.

Raised $259,000,000.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund and Greenspring Associates.

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