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    @lightspeedvp
    Dec 15, 2025
    Today we're announcing over $9B in capital for a new family of funds — our largest raise in 25 years. AI is rewriting the rules. We're backing the founders building what comes next.
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    We may look back on colds the way we now look back on cholera. @clairejyz and @Machiz discuss why airborne disease could become a problem we actually solve: "For hundreds of years, society just accepted that water had diseases." "We've done the same thing with airborne
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    Doctronic
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    Getting seen by a clinician shouldn't take days. We're building with the aim to deliver quality care in seconds, and connect patients to physicians in minutes. @lightspeedvp partner @f_fatemi21 mapped out the entire patient journey and how Doctronic is working to shape access
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    Faraz Fatemi
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    Jul 13
    More than 80% of US physicians are already leveraging AI. The question now is how consumer adoption of health AI is going to drive real patient outcomes, with companies like @doctronic & @Neko helping lead the charge to deliver both access *and* accuracy. I had a chance to
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    Claire Zau
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    @clairejyz
    Jul 13
    NEW EPISODE: @AnthropicAI looks inside AI's mind with the “J-Space,” the $500M fund to end the common cold, and @amazon’s Project Leo challenges @Starlink @lightspeedvp Partners @GalymImanbayev and @f_fatemi21 map the AI-native patient journey, and the companies we see
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    Jul 13
    Do models have something like a subconscious? @clairejyz on Anthropic’s research into J-Space and the hidden processing behind model behavior: "For many years, people have been trying to understand how a model's brain works." "Could a model have a divide the way humans do
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    Claire Zau
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    @clairejyz
    Jul 13
    NEW EPISODE: @AnthropicAI looks inside AI's mind with the “J-Space,” the $500M fund to end the common cold, and @amazon’s Project Leo challenges @Starlink @lightspeedvp Partners @GalymImanbayev and @f_fatemi21 map the AI-native patient journey, and the companies we see
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    Claire Zau
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    @clairejyz
    Jul 13
    HEALTHCARE x AI: THE PATIENT JOURNEY @GalymImanbayev and @f_fatemi21 broke down all 7 stages, from "get covered" to "get paid," and companies building in each one (1/9)👇
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    Claire Zau
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    @clairejyz
    Jul 13
    NEW EPISODE: @AnthropicAI looks inside AI's mind with the “J-Space,” the $500M fund to end the common cold, and @amazon’s Project Leo challenges @Starlink @lightspeedvp Partners @GalymImanbayev and @f_fatemi21 map the AI-native patient journey, and the companies we see
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    Jul 13
    NEW: $500M is being poured to end respiratory diseases. This week, @clairejyz and @Machiz unpack why some big names in tech are backing Intercept, a new initiative focused on making illnesses like the common cold, flu, and COVID far less common. Lightspeed Partners
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    Claire Zau
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    @clairejyz
    Jul 13
    NEW EPISODE: @AnthropicAI looks inside AI's mind with the “J-Space,” the $500M fund to end the common cold, and @amazon’s Project Leo challenges @Starlink @lightspeedvp Partners @GalymImanbayev and @f_fatemi21 map the AI-native patient journey, and the companies we see
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    Jul 13
    YouTube:
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    Anthropic Reads a Model's Mind, $500M to End the Common Cold & Amazon Takes On Starlink | Lightwork
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    Jul 13
    Replying to @lightspeedvp @clairejyz and @Machiz
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    Anthropic Reads a Model's Mind, The $500M Bet Against the Cold & Amazon Takes On Starlink |...
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    Jul 13
    Europe's defense infrastructure is being rebuilt. The New York Times @dealbook covered @HelsingAI’s drone factory in Germany. When @torstenreil, Niklas Köhler, and Dr. Gundbert Scherf started the company in 2021, democracies were looking to future-proof their defenses. Today,
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    Jul 13
    Helsing SE, which makes autonomous jets and drones, is the most valuable A.I. defense start-up in Europe.
    Inside the Secret Factory That Supplies Ukraine’s War Drones
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    @lightspeedvp
    Jul 13
    We’re proud to participate in @HelsingAI’s $1.8B Series E, bringing the company to a total valuation of about $18B. As software develops further, so too must the technology that defends our infrastructure. We first backed co-founders @torstenreil, Niklas Köhler, and Dr.
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    Shiv Rao, MD
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    Jul 10
    The best thing happening in healthcare AI right now is how much the industry is choosing to build together. Proud to co-host our first @AbridgeHQ hackathon with @AnthropicAI , @lightspeedvp , and @cerebral_valley . This is what positive-sum looks like.
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    The Future of Agentic AI in Healthcare - Abridge x Anthropic x Lightspeed
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    Jul 10
    Arena started as “a side project of another project.” In spring 2023, after Meta released Llama, Berkeley students spent a weekend fine-tuning it on shared GPT conversations. The result was Vicuna. They put it on the web and believed it was better than base Llama. But then came
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    Claire Zau
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    @clairejyz
    Jul 6
    NEW EPISODE: @Meta reads your brain with Brain2Qwerty. @AnthropicAI releases Claude Science, and Co-founder and Chairman of @arena Ion Stoica joins us. @istoica05 is the Berkeley professor behind an absurd run of systems that basically run modern AI: @ApacheSpark (the standard
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    @lightspeedvp
    Jul 10
    Replying to @lightspeedvp and @Nirva
    Learn about Nirva here:
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    Why We Partnered with Nirva
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    Tanmai Gopal
    @tanmaigo
    Jul 8
    We raised $136M to kill Slack. Introducing PromptQL: The first AI version of Slack. Here’s how it works:
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