Congratulations @nifleisher @liamail @cc_jarryd and the rest of the @sandstonehq team! We at @lightspeedvp are honored to be behind a spectacular team redefining how in house legal is performed. DM if you’re interested in joining! cc @guruchahal

Excited to continue to support @MikeyShulman @GeorgKucsko @fut_ure and the @suno team on their ambitious vision to reinvent how we enjoy music 💪🏼 They are hiring (in the Bay Area too!), DM if you’re interested in joining. cc @lightspeedvp

Congratulations to @ravi_lsvp, @ravirajjain, and @buckymoore on their recognition in the Seed 100 List! The Seed 100 List from @businessinsider highlights early-stage investors with a unique ability to scout the tech stars of tomorrow. Amid the AI boom, the competitiveness and speed of investors getting in before the “seed stage” as we know it have been reinforced. This is the Seed 100’s sixth year, and it is an honor to have 3 Lightspeed team members acknowledged on the list. Early-stage investing has been wired into our team’s DNA for over 26 years. And we are incredibly proud to have backed many teams from their Seed rounds and beyond. As Ravi puts it: "The founders Lightspeed backs don't extrapolate from the present; they derive from first principles and arrive at futures others haven't thought to look for.”

RT @lightspeedvp: What started as two teenagers bonding over their love for digital gigs evolved into two founders turning their passion in…

I'm beyond excited to announce that I’m joining @Lightspeed as a Partner on the early-stage investing team and helping to build everything they're doing in new media. I've spent the last six years investing in early-stage companies, and the last year building a media platform in parallel. What started as a side quest has reached 350,000 followers and millions of viewers a month. For me, investing and storytelling have always been two halves of the same job. This work has put me in rooms with incredible founders, researchers, and operators - many of whom have become close friends, collaborators, and early stage bets. There's so much happening at the frontier right now, and the media platform has given me a way to be in those conversations early (and to bring the people I admire most into a wider audience). When Lightspeed reached out, we saw the same opportunity. Venture and media are converging, and the next generation of great firms will need to show up differently: reaching founders and builders before they've even started a company, and being the place where people first get excited about what's happening in tech. With more than $50 billion in AUM, Lightspeed has been building alongside founders at the frontier of technology for decades. It's a firm I've admired for years since I started investing - for its intellectual rigor, its long-term conviction, and the way it approaches company building. I’m excited to join a team that brings real depth and substance to its work, and I hope to bring that same ethos to everything I put out. Thank you to @ravi_lsvp, @bsomaia , and @Machiz for believing in this vision and trusting me to help build it. I’m so excited to see what we do together. If you're an early-stage founder, building or thinking about starting something, or just curious about this ecosystem - please reach out. My DMs are open and I’d love to chat!

Alysa Liu - retires for 2.5 years and comes back to win gold and end the 24 year Olympic drought for USA women’s figure skating. As she aptly put it after her free skate, “That’s what I’m f-ing talking about”!!!

Crazy to think that this was the inverse for the last 30 years

The future of music is already here, and anyone can create it. Today, @Suno announced a $250M Series C round to keep building an ecosystem where creators, listeners, and the broader music communities can make and share music together. Nearly 100 million people have created music on Suno in just two years, and many have found a new passion in the process. Co-Founders @MikeyShulman, @fut_ure (Martin Camacho), @GeorgKucsko, and Keenan Freyberg are working towards building more advanced tools, richer experiences for casual creators, and new ways for people to connect through music. Big congrats to the entire Suno team! Cc: Lightspeed Partners @mignano and @lisabethhan

“Good things happen to good people”. I can’t think of a better adage that applies to @eglyman and @karimatiyeh and the @tryramp team. Grateful to have been on the ground at @tryramp as an early employee and now partner with them in a meaningful way here at @lightspeedvp. Congrats team 💪🏼 cc. @sach_pat @wakohler

While I'm a fan of founders having a pulse on their competitors, it gets dicey when they become competitor-obsessed at the sacrifice of being customer-obsessed.

Am I wrong in sensing a paradigm shift in AI? Feels like we’re moving from a world obsessed with generalist LLM APIs to one where more and more companies are training, optimizing, and running their own models built on open source (especially smaller, specialized ones) Some validating signs just in the past few weeks: - @karpathy released nanochat to train models in just a few lines of code - @thinkymachines launched a fine-tuning product - rising popularity of @vllm_project, @sgl_project, @PrimeIntellect, Loras, trl,... - 1M new repos on HF in the past 90 days (including the first open-source LLMs from @OpenAI) And now, @nvidia just announced DGX Spark, powerful enough for everyone to fine-tune their own models at home. Would you agree, or am I just seeing the future I want to exist? Also, why is this happening (just the advent of RL/post-training?)

Just saw what I thought were the Blue Angels but realized they were the Canadian Snowbirds instead. Canada coming in strong to save our fleet week! @arifj

Dating advice: just do it Selling advice: just do it Writing advice: just do it Coding advice: just do it Fitness advice: just do it Startup advice: just do it

We at @lightspeedvp are proud to back @basepowerco in their $1B Series C to rebuild the backbone of American power. Congrats @ZachBDell, @JLopas and the incredible team they have assembled in their pursuit of this mission. Come join the team to build the next great American industrial company (cats included).🔋🚀 CC @sebdues

Today, we’re announcing our $1B Series C fundraise, and the opening of Factory 1. It's time to rebuild America’s electric grid.⚡ Let’s go ⬇️

Today we are announcing our $1B Series C, but money isn’t the story. The story is what we’ll do with it, and the scale of the challenge ahead. Our mission isn’t constrained by capital, supply, or demand. It’s constrained by talent. To build America’s next great power company, we need the engineers, operators, and creatives ready to take on the challenge to join us. Power is the most important product in the world. It runs through everything: our homes, hospitals, schools, factories, and future. And the grid that delivers it is breaking. At Base, we’re building the future of power so human progress can accelerate. In the past two years, we’ve grown from an idea into one of the fastest growing energy companies in America. Now we’re entering a new phase of growth. Our first manufacturing site is rising in the heart of Austin, inside the former Austin American-Statesman printing press. Here we’ll build our own hardware to meet surging demand and scale nationwide. This is a key step in putting a battery on every home in the country. Few teams get to say their work powers human progress. We do. With a billion dollars of fuel, our next wave of growth will be defined not by capital, but by people who choose to step up, take ownership, and build the next great American power company. The old system is breaking. Come build the new one. Our Series C was led by Addition, with participation from both new and existing investors including Trust Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Thrive Capital, Lightspeed, Andreessen Horowitz, Altimeter, StepStone, Elad Gil, 137 Ventures, Terrain, Waybury, Ribbit, CapitalG, Spark, BOND, Lowercarbon, Avenir, Glade Brook, Positive Sum, and 1789.