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    Light Street Capital

    Palo Alto, California, United StatesFounded 2010
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    Light Street Capital Management is a Palo Alto-based investment management firm founded by Glen Kacher in 2010. It invests globally in disruptive technology businesses across public and private equity, with private venture funds (the Beacon series) targeting late-stage growth technology companies.

    Average disclosed round size is $159.1M (across 15 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    14

    Fund Size

    —

    Top Stage

    Series D

    Last 12 Mo

    0

    Team

    CC

    Christopher Crawford

    Partner

    SO

    Shef Osborn

    Partner

    KY

    Kan Yuan

    Analyst

    SM

    Scatt Macdonald

    Senior Analyst

    GK

    Glen Kacher

    Founder and CIO

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    19 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Ayar Labs Inc logoAyar Labs IncSeries D—Dec 2024
    Lumin Digital logoLumin DigitalGrowth$160MDec 2024
    Lumin logoLuminGrowth$160MDec 2024
    Ayar Labs Inc logoAyar Labs IncSeries D—Jan 2024
    SmartHR logoSmartHRSeries D$115MJan 2021
    Solv logoSolvSeries B$27MNov 2020
    SSolv HealthSeries B—Nov 2020
    GitLab, Inc. logoGitLab, Inc.Series E$268MSep 2019
    Blackbuck logoBlackbuckSeries D$150MMay 2019
    EzCater logoEzCaterSeries D$150MApr 2019
    EzCater logoEzCaterSeries A$150MJan 2019
    GitLab, Inc. logoGitLab, Inc.Series E$268MJan 2019
    BBoxed WholesaleSeries C$100MJan 2016
    Boxed logoBoxedSeries C$100MJan 2016
    Toast logoToastSeries F$400M—
    SmartHR logoSmartHRSeries D——
    SmartHR logoSmartHRSeries C$56.8M—
    Clari logoClariSeries F$225M—
    SmartHR logoSmartHRSeries C$56.8M—

    Top Co-Investors

    Wellington Management3 shared
    Iconiq Capital, LLC3 shared
    Tiger Global Management, LLC3 shared
    BEENEXT3 shared
    World Innovation Lab3 shared
    Benchmark2 shared
    MultiCare Health System2 shared
    Acrew Capital2 shared
    Greylock Partners2 shared
    Quadrille Capital2 shared
    Lightspeed Venture Partners2 shared
    Alkeon Capital Management2 shared
    Coatue Management LLC2 shared
    Franklin Templeton2 shared
    Altimeter Capital Management, LP2 shared
    Two Sigma Ventures2 shared
    GlobalFoundries2 shared
    Advanced Micro Devices Inc.2 shared
    Intel Capital2 shared
    Advent Global Opportunities2 shared

    Last updated: 7 October 2026