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Jay Madheswaran Put AI on the Plaintiff's Side of the Table
He learned speed at Facebook, company-building at Rubrik and pattern recognition at Lightspeed. At Eve, Jay Madheswaran is betting those lessons can give plaintiff lawyers more time for judgment - and less paperwork to drag behind them.
Lightspeed Built a $9 Billion Bet on the Long Game
Lightspeed has grown from an enterprise-focused Silicon Valley partnership into a global, multi-stage investor. Its newest funds reveal the real strategy: specialist judgment, patient capital and enough range to keep backing a company as the stakes rise.
Sivan Iram
Sivan Iram is the co-founder and CEO of Flow (Flow Specialty), a Mountain View-based next-generation wholesale brokerage that uses GenAI and licensed human experts to automate specialty commercial insurance placement. A former software engineer turned operator with a Harvard MBA, he spent a decade writing code and running go-to-market at Lenovo before starting Flow in 2021 to bring enterprise-grade service to the small and mid-market accounts the industry had long ignored. Flow has raised roughly $20-25M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Alex Shan
Alex Shan is the 22-year-old co-founder and CEO of Judgment Labs, a San Francisco startup building the continuous-improvement stack for AI agents. A former Stanford NLP researcher under Chris Manning who pioneered autonomous networking agents at Juniper Networks, Shan started Judgment with two childhood best friends to give teams tools that understand what their agents are actually doing - not just their inputs and outputs. In May 2026 the company closed $32 million in combined seed and Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Ali Hussain
Ali Hussain is the CEO and co-founder of Tabs, a New York based startup building AI agents that automate the messy contract-to-cash side of B2B finance: billing, collections, and revenue recognition. He founded the company in 2023 after watching accounts receivable break at scale as COO of Latch (later DOOR), and earlier worked at Boston Consulting Group, Google, and the U.S. Congress. In September 2025 Tabs raised a $55M Series B led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to launch its first Billing and Collections agents, bringing total funding to roughly $92M.
Jake Seid
Jake Seid is Co-Founder and General Partner at Ballistic Ventures, a cybersecurity-only venture capital firm managing over $700M in assets. A MIT-trained engineer with the school's highest student honor, he helped commercialize broadband at Cisco, launched Lightspeed Venture Partners as a founding team member, ran the 800-person team at Auction.com through its $1.6B acquisition, then backed 12 unicorns solo at Stone Bridge Ventures before co-founding Ballistic to go all-in on securing the digital world.
Kathleen Forte
Kathleen Forte is an Investor Relations Partner at Sequoia Capital, one of the world's most storied venture capital firms. With over two decades of experience across investor relations, business development, and fundraising, she has held senior roles at Lightspeed Venture Partners, SVB Financial Group, ADM Capital, and Clearwater Capital Partners. Known for her deep expertise in LP relationships and fund management, Forte joined Sequoia in July 2022, bringing a rare blend of financial acumen and relationship-driven dealmaking to one of Silicon Valley's most prestigious platforms.
Jeremy Liew
Jeremy Liew is a legendary consumer venture capitalist and Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, best known as the first institutional investor in Snapchat — turning an $8.1M bet into nearly $2 billion at the 2017 IPO. Born in Singapore and raised in Perth, Australia, Liew competed at the International Math Olympiad alongside future Fields Medalist Terence Tao before pivoting to business. After stints at McKinsey, IAC, and AOL, he joined Lightspeed in 2006 as its first consumer specialist, backing Affirm, Bonobos, GIPHY, and Epic Games along the way. A 9-time Forbes Midas List honoree, he stepped back from new investments in 2021 — just before turning 50 — to preserve the family time COVID had unexpectedly given him.