Ravi Mhatre
@ravi_lsvp
Investor and adviser to start-ups
Developers are key to shaping Lightspeed-backed @AnthropicAI’s products, providing real-time, hands-on feedback that’s hard to match at an enterprise level. At #GenSF, @DanielaAmodei, President and Co-Founder, joined our Partner @GuruChahal to discuss Anthropic’s founding team,…
Congrats @DavidSacks @davidsacks47 @sriramk and all who contributed to America’s AI Action plan. The ideas are creative, the thinking Is clear and the strategies are logical and rational. Having both careful controls that prevent AI proliferation to our adversaries and…
🇺🇸 Today is a day we have been working towards for six months. We are announcing America’s AI action plan putting us on the road to continued AI dominance. The three core themes: - Accelerate AI innovation - Build American AI infrastructure - Lead in international AI…
Congratulations to @lightspeedvp-backed @thinkymachines on raising a record $2B seed round. @miramurati, @johnschulman2, @barret_zoph,@lilianweng, Andrew Tulloch, @Luke_Metz, and their incredible team are building advanced multimodal AI systems designed to interact the way…
Another great hire for @AnthropicAI – @realpaulsmith is joining as the company's first Chief Commercial Officer. Paul's 30+ years building go-to-market powerhouses at Microsoft, Salesforce, and ServiceNow will be invaluable in strengthening Anthropic's commercial organization and…
Big milestone for Lightspeed-backed @CatoNetworks. Congratulations to Co-Founder and CEO Shlomo Kramer and the entire Cato team for successfully closing its Series G funding round. As longtime investors, we’ve witnessed Cato grow from being a category-defining SASE platform to…
Last month, @Apple’s Machine Learning Research paper, “The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity,” sparked discussion among members of the AI community by suggesting that reasoning models struggle…
We at @lightspeedvp have had the privilege of working with @jainarvind for over 20 years and have been long-time believers in his vision for @glean. Since founding Glean in 2019, he and the team have built a powerful platform that simplifies a fragmented AI landscape and helps…
I’m excited to share that today @glean raised $150M in Series F funding at a $7.2B valuation — accelerating our mission to transform how enterprises unlock their collective knowledge through AI. @Glean was founded with a bold vision: to empower every employee with AI solutions…
Excited to welcome @reedhastings to the board of @AnthropicAI. Reed built one of the most transformative tech companies of our time at @netflix. His experience scaling complex systems and navigating inflection points will be invaluable as Anthropic continues to shape the…
Excited to share that I have joined @lightspeedvp to help drive their early-stage efforts in enterprise. Lightspeed has been on my radar for a while. 14 years ago, I noticed they were the lead investor in many of the startups we were tracking @Cisco. Lightspeed also had Cisco…
Excited to welcome @buckymoore as the newest Partner at Lightspeed. Bucky joins us after 11 years as a venture investor, the majority of which was spent at Kleiner Perkins. At @lightspeedvp, Bucky will help lead our enterprise investing efforts, with a primary focus on AI,…
The Urgency of Interpretability: Why it's crucial that we understand how AI models work darioamodei.com/post/the-urgen…
Content by @Lightspeedvp @jainarvind @glean: AI is no longer just an experiment — it’s driving real business impact, says Arvind Jain, CEO of Glean.
Congratulations to @DarioAmodei, Co-Founder and CEO of @lightspeedvp-backed @AnthropicAI, on being recognized as one of @TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025. Over the past several years, I’ve had the privilege of working closely with Dario and experiencing his vision and…
The 2025 TIME100 is here: TIME's annual list of the world's most influential people ti.me/4cAF2li
For the seventh year in a row, @Forbes spotlights the most promising privately held AI companies in the world through its AI 50 list. Congratulations to Lightspeed-backed @AbridgeHQ, @AnthropicAI, @Databricks, @Glean, @MistralAI, @Pika_Labs, @SkildAI, @SnorkelAI, @SunoMusic, and…
Today, we announced a $200M round led by Addition, @a16z, @lightspeedvp, and Valor, with participation from existing investors @ThriveCapital, Altimeter, Trust Ventures, and @terraincap. Addition founder Lee Fixel will join our board alongside Antonio Gracias of Valor.
Directly harvesting electricity from fusion without huge steam turbines was first discovered in the 1950s, but back then we had nowhere near the high-speed semiconductor technology we have today that was required. A lot of good ideas were had in the past, but couldn't come to…
nearly every good “frontier” idea i’ve heard was first imagined in the mid-20th century. the physics haven’t changed—what’s new are materials, software, and market readiness. visionaries like o’neill and von braun dreamed in blueprints and manifestos, sketching futures they…
We’re launching a new blog: Engineering at Anthropic. A hub where developers can find practical advice and our latest discoveries on how to get the most from Claude.
In this most recent edition of Lightspeed’s newsletter, we dig into: → Our leading investment in @AnthropicAI’s Series E round → World Models as the next major “modality” in AI → @AledadeACO’s mission to transform primary care → Key takeaways from the inaugural A Very…