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Semil Shah

Venture Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

Mill Valley, California

Overview 

Semil Shah is a General Partner at Haystack and a Venture Partner at Lightspeed, known for early partnerships with technical and product-driven founders to build iconic companies. His career highlights include investing in companies like Nominal, Synch, Kinetic Automation, Abbey Labs, and contributing to the success of various startups in IoT, Cloud Infrastructure, Marketplaces, AI, and SaaS sectors.

Work Experience 

  • General Partner

    2013 - Current

    Haystack is an institutional seed firm backed by world class endowments and foundations. Learn more at www.haystack.vc

Haystack is a venture capital firm that backs outlier founders at the earliest stages.

  • Venture Partner

    2018

    Lightspeed is a leading global venture capital firm which originally began in Silicon Valley, and now boasts offices in India, China, Europe (including Israel), and New York City. Learn more at www.lsvp.com

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

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