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Lightspeed Ventures
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm focusing on seed stage, early stage investments and growth stage investments in the enterprise, fintech, consumer and healthcare sectors. Lightspeed has eleven offices globally and as of 2023 had approximately US$25 billion in assets under management. History Lightspeed was founded in 2000 by four enterprise founders who previously worked at Weiss, Peck & Greer and went to Stanford University together. The firms early focus on enterprise technology was in stark contrast to the vast majority of venture capital funding which was focused on ecommerce and consumer investing. Lightspeeds early commitment to building its international presence began with its first international office in Tel-Aviv in 2006 following Yoni Cheifetz joining the firm. This effort soon extended to India when Bejul Somaia joined the firm in 2008 to begin the firms India practice and then in Singapore in 2022. For the next decade, Lightspeed Venture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menlo Park, California
Menlo Park ( ) is a city at the eastern edge of San Mateo County, California, San Mateo County in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States. It is bordered by San Francisco Bay on the north and east; East Palo Alto, California, East Palo Alto, Palo Alto, California, Palo Alto, and Stanford, California, Stanford to the south; and Atherton, California, Atherton, North Fair Oaks, California, North Fair Oaks, and Redwood City, California, Redwood City to the west. It had 33,780 residents at the 2020 United States census. It is home to the corporate headquarters of Meta Platforms, Meta, and is where Google, Roblox Corporation, and Round Table Pizza were founded. The train station holds the record as the oldest continually operating train station in California. It is one of the most educated cities in California and the United States; nearly 70% of residents over 25 have earned a bachelor's degree or higher. Toponym "Menlo" is derived from Menlo, County Galway, Menlo (th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Affirm Holdings
Affirm Holdings, Inc. is an American technology company that provides financial services for shoppers and merchants. Founded in 2012 by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, it is the largest U.S. based buy now, pay later lender. As of 2025, Affirm reports 22 million users, processing $28 billion in payments annually. Affirm offers unsecured installment loans at the point of sale through various methods. These include payment links at online checkout, payment options at self-checkout kiosks, integration into third-party digital wallets, and virtual or physical cards. The company generates revenue by applying a service fee to sellers, charging interest to borrowers, or both, and does not charge a late fee. Affirm also offers a savings account and a debit card. The lender says its loan underwriting involves evaluating transactions by considering credit scores and other pertinent factors, while also incorporating machine learning. Affirm's services are available in the U.S., Canada and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Financial Services Companies Established In 2000
Finance refers to monetary resources and to the study and discipline of money, currency, assets and liabilities. As a subject of study, is a field of Business Administration wich study the planning, organizing, leading, and controlling of an organization's resources to achieve its goals. Based on the scope of financial activities in financial systems, the discipline can be divided into personal, corporate, and public finance. In these financial systems, assets are bought, sold, or traded as financial instruments, such as currencies, loans, bonds, shares, stocks, options, futures, etc. Assets can also be banked, invested, and insured to maximize value and minimize loss. In practice, risks are always present in any financial action and entities. Due to its wide scope, a broad range of subfields exists within finance. Asset-, money-, risk- and investment management aim to maximize value and minimize volatility. Financial analysis assesses the viability, stability, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Educational Technology
Educational technology (commonly abbreviated as edutech, or edtech) is the combined use of computer hardware, software, and educational theory and practice to facilitate learning and teaching. When referred to with its abbreviation, "EdTech", it often refers to the industry of companies that create educational technology. In ''EdTech Inc.: Selling, Automating and Globalizing Higher Education in the Digital Age'', Tanner Mirrlees and Shahid Alvi (2019) argue "EdTech is no exception to industry ownership and market rules" and "define the EdTech industries as all the privately owned companies currently involved in the financing, production and distribution of commercial hardware, software, cultural goods, services and platforms for the educational market with the goal of turning a profit. Many of these companies are US-based and rapidly expanding into educational markets across North America, and increasingly growing all over the world." In addition to the practical educational ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multiverse (company)
Multiverse is a British educational technology company founded in 2016 by Euan Blair and Sophie Adelman. Based in London, United Kingdom, the company provides a platform for companies to recruit school leavers through apprenticeships. History Multiverse was founded in 2016 by friends Euan Blair and Sophie Adelman under the name WhiteHat, which was named after the hackers employed by companies to test their IT security. The company rebranded to Multiverse in 2011. In 2018, the company announced it had raised £3 million ($4 million) of seed investment from Lightspeed Venture Partners. In 2021, Adelman stepped back from the company but retained a seat on its board and a shareholding. In September of that year, Multiverse raised £97 million ($130 million) from multiple investors including D1 Capital Partners and BOND. In June 2022, Multiverse raised £163 million ($220 million) of investment which valued the company at £1.2 billion ($1.7 billion). The company received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cato Networks
Cato Networks Ltd. is a Tel Aviv, Israel-based network security company that develops Secure access service edge, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) technology, which combines enterprise communication and security capabilities into a single cloud-based platform. The company was founded in 2015. After an October 2021 funding round, the company was a unicorn (finance), tech unicorn valued at $2.5 billion. History Cato Networks was founded in 2015 in Tel Aviv, Israel by Shlomo Kramer, co-founder of Check Point, Checkpoint and Imperva, and Gur Shatz, a co-founder of networking company Incapsula. Cato was initially funded with a $20 million Series A from U.S. Venture Partners and Aspect Ventures. Kramer became CEO, and Shatz became president and COO. It secured a Series B round of $50 million in September. The company officially launched in February 2016. Its first products were designed to protect customers' WAN connections and mobile devices with next-generation firewalling, URL fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grafana
Grafana is a multi-platform open source analytics and interactive visualization web application. It can produce charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources. There is also a licensed Grafana Enterprise version with additional capabilities, which is sold as a self-hosted installation or through an account on the Grafana Labs cloud service. It is expandable through a plug-in system. Complex monitoring dashboards can be built by end users, with the aid of interactive query builders. The product is divided into a front end and back end, written in TypeScript and Go, respectively. As a visualization tool, Grafana can be used as a component in monitoring stacks, often in combination with time series databases such as InfluxDB, Prometheus and Graphite; monitoring platforms such as Sensu, Icinga, Checkmk, Zabbix, Netdata, and PRTG; SIEMs such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, and Splunk; and other data sources. The Grafana user interface was ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glean Technologies
Glean Technologies, Inc. is an American technology company specializing in enterprise-grade artificial intelligence (AI) and search capabilities. According to Fortune, its valuation was $4.6 billion in 2024. History The company was founded in 2019 in Palo Alto, California. In September 2021, Glean introduced its assistive search tool, designed to pull together information from dozens of disparate applications, streamlining access to critical data across various platforms, to the market. Funding rounds In March 2019, shortly after its establishment, Glean raised $15 million in Series A funding co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed, which included participation from the Slack Fund. In March 2021, the company closed a Series B funding round of $40M led by General Catalyst. In May 2022, the company secured a $100M Series C led by Sequoia Capital at a $1B valuation and hit the Unicorn status. In February 2024, Glean raised over $200 million in Series D A ventu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot, Inc. is a technology company that produces business intelligence analytics search software. The company is based in Mountain View, California, and was founded in 2012. History ThoughtSpot was started in 2012 by Ajeet Singh (CEO) and Amit Prakash (CTO). The CEO and co-founder, Ajeet Singh, previously co-founded the company Nutanix. The CTO and co-founders, Amit Prakash, came from Google where he was responsible for one of the machine learning systems for Ads. In late 2012, ThoughtSpot raised $10.7 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. In 2014, the company raised $30 million in Series B funding led by Khosla Ventures. In January 2016, the company opened an office in London. In February 2016, ThoughtSpot announced that it had increased its revenue by 810 percent over the previous year. In May 2016, ThoughtSpot raised $50 million in Series C funding led by General Catalyst Partners. In October 2016, the company expanded its series C funding w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mistral AI
Mistral AI SAS () is a French artificial intelligence (AI) startup, headquartered in Paris. Founded in 2023, it specializes in open-weight large language models (LLMs), with both open-source and proprietary AI models. Namesake The company is named after the mistral, a powerful, cold wind in southern France. History Mistral AI was established in April 2023 by three French AI researchers, Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix. Mensch, an expert in advanced AI systems, is a former employee of Google DeepMind; Lample and Lacroix, meanwhile, are large-scale AI models specialists who had worked for Meta Platforms. The trio originally met during their studies at École Polytechnique. Company operation Funding In June 2023, the start-up carried out a first fundraising of €105 million ($117 million) with investors including the American fund Lightspeed Venture Partners, Eric Schmidt, Xavier Niel and JCDecaux. The valuation is then estimated by the Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilead Sciences
Gilead Sciences, Inc. () is an American biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Foster City, California, that focuses on researching and developing antiviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, influenza, and COVID-19, including ledipasvir/sofosbuvir and sofosbuvir. Gilead is a member of the Nasdaq-100 and the S&P 100. Gilead was founded in 1987 under the name Oligogen by Michael L. Riordan. The original name was a reference to oligonucleotides, small strands of DNA used to target genetic sequences. Gilead held its initial public offering in 1992, and successfully developed drugs like Tamiflu and Vistide that decade. In the 2000s, Gilead received approval for drugs including Viread and Hepsera, among others. It began evolving from a biotechnology company into a pharmaceutical company, acquiring several subsidiaries, though it still relied heavily on contracting to manufacture its drugs. The company continued its growth in the 2010s. Howev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
