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Raviraj Jain

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Raviraj Jain is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners in San Francisco, California, with a focus on investing in various sectors including TransportationTech, Analytics, and AI. He has made significant investments in companies like Foundry and Dexterity, showcasing his expertise in venture capital and strategic decision-making in the startup ecosystem.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2017 - Current

    Looking to partner with early-stage startups (Seed to B) in enterprise software (infra+application), AI, and frontier technologies Active Investments: AI+Deep Tech Skild AI (seed+A) Typeface AI (A) Snorkel AI (B) Evenup AI (C) ML Foundry (A) Dexterity AI (seed+A+B) Anduril (late stage) Helsing (Series C) Tonkean (A) Reliable Robotics (A) Fiddler (seed+A) Resim AI (Seed) Enterprise/B2B Nirvana Insurance (seed+A+B) Keychain (Seed) Osmos Data (seed+A) P0 Security (Seed) Stealth cloud infra company (Seed+A) FalconX (seed)

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

  • Founding Investor and Board Director

    2023

    Co-Led the Seed and Series A rounds https://lsvp.com/stories/skild-is-bringing-generative-ai-to-the-real-world/

  • Board Observer

    2023

    I led the seed round in the company and partnered with them since Day 1! https://venturebeat.com/data-infrastructure/former-angi-ceo-launches-new-startup-keychain-to-revolutionize-consumer-goods-manufacturing/

Keychain is a CPG production platform that collaborates with retailers and brands.

Raised $35,500,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, BoxGroup, Schreiber Foods, General Mills and SV Angel.

  • Member, Board of Directors

    2020

Snorkel AI is an AI platform that accelerates data labeling by using machine learning for faster model training.

Raised $135,250,000.00 from QBE Ventures.

  • Board Observer

    2022

Typeface offers a generative AI application that provides streamlined and personalized content creation for enterprises.

Raised $165,000,000.00 from Menlo Ventures, Madrona, Google Ventures, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures.

  • Founding Investor and Member, Board of Directors

    2017

Dexterity provides robotic systems solutions for logistics, warehouses, and supply chain.

Raised $196,200,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Presidio Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Ballistic Ventures, Obvious Ventures and B37 Ventures.

  • Member, Board of Directors

    2020

Fiddler provides enterprise model performance management software that allows monitoring, explaining, analyzing, and improving ML models.

Raised $64,149,994.00 from SAV (Scale Asia Ventures) and Dentsu Ventures.

  • Member, Board Of Directors

    2021

Nirvana Insurance provides commercial fleet insurance using telematics data to enhance safety, and reduce costs.

Raised $82,200,000.00 from General Catalyst, Valor Equity Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

  • Member, Board Of Directors

    2021

  • Member, Board Of Directors

    2020

    Lightspeed led the $24M Series A financing for Tonkean

Tonkean provides an enterprise no-code process orchestration platform.

Raised $83,200,000.00 from Accel, Foundation Capital, Scott Farquhar, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Eric Schmidt.

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