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Investor portfolio, from our funding record
Related investors recorded separately: Lightspeed India Partners.
Recorded in our rows as: Lightspeed.
Counted rounds
3
Led
1
2 as participant
Companies
1
Disclosed round value
$860M
3 of 3 rounds disclosed; whole rounds, not this investor's share
First deal
2025-02-13
K2 Space
Latest deal
2026-07-30
K2 Space
Lightspeed Venture Partners appears on 3 counted private space funding rounds in our records, into 1 company: recorded as lead on 1 and as a participant on 2.
The earliest is K2 Space on 13 February 2025; the latest is K2 Space on 30 July 2026.
3 of the 3 rounds disclosed a size, together $860M. That is the size of the rounds Lightspeed Venture Partners took part in, not the amount Lightspeed Venture Partners invested: we hold no per-investor allocations and do not estimate them.
The investor most often on the same counted rounds as Lightspeed Venture Partners is Altimeter Capital, on 3 rounds.
3 other recorded transactions naming Lightspeed Venture Partners are not counted in this portfolio; each is listed separately with the class that keeps it out (companies not classed as space: 3).
Private funding rounds into space companies that name Lightspeed Venture Partners as lead or participant, newest first, each with its source. Round size is the whole round; a blank size was never disclosed and is not estimated.
| Date | Company | Stage | Role | Round size | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K2 SpaceRecorded as Series D | Series D and later | ParticipantAs recorded: Lightspeed | $500M | GovCon Wire (opens the source for this round) | |
| K2 Space | Series C | ParticipantAs recorded: Lightspeed | $250M | Payload (opens the source for this round) | |
| K2 Space | Series B | Lead | $110M | Payload (opens the source for this round) |
Rounds come from company announcements, regulatory filings and press reports. Amounts, valuations and investors are as reported and may be incomplete or later revised. Not investment advice, and not an offer or solicitation for any security. Full disclaimer
| Stage | Rounds |
|---|---|
| Series B | 1 |
| Series C | 1 |
| Series D and later | 1 |
| Sector | Rounds |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 3 |
| Year | Rounds |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 |
Investors named on the same counted rounds, by the number of rounds shared.
Showing the 10 most frequent of 12 co-investors. The full list is part of a SpaceNexus Research seat.
Other recorded transactions that name Lightspeed Venture Partners. Each class below is kept out of every figure on this page by the same rule our quarterly funding editions use; they are listed so nothing is hidden.
| Date | Company | Class | Role | Round size | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castelion | Private rounds and grants into companies not classed as space (defense and other cross-domain companies without a space subsector) | Participant | $800M | PR Newswire (opens the source for this round) | |
| Castelion | Private rounds and grants into companies not classed as space (defense and other cross-domain companies without a space subsector) | LeadAs recorded: Lightspeed | $350M | PR Newswire (opens the source for this round) | |
| Castelion | Private rounds and grants into companies not classed as space (defense and other cross-domain companies without a space subsector) | Lead | $70.0M | SpaceNews (opens the source for this round) |