Know your investor: Lightspeed

8200 EISP is will host  Yoni Cheifetz and David Gussarsky, Partners at Lightspeed Venture Partners.  As part of the “know your investor” series, Yoni and David will be discussing the pitholes that fundraising presents – this is particularly geared at early-stage startups looking for investments. The event will take place at the Polly Bar, Rothschild Avenue 60 St. Tel Aviv, at 19:00pm. For more information – please press “see more”.

This is the 6th event as part as “know your investor” series, where we bring top angel investors, VC’s, incubators and others to meet the entrepreneurial community in Israel.

Yoni Cheifetz leads the firm’s investment activity in Israel with areas of interest that include Internet, digital media, mobile, communications, software, semiconductors, and clean tech. Prior to becoming a VC, Yoni was a serial entrepreneur for sixteen years. David Gussarsky joined Lightspeed in 2008 from BRM and focuses on the firm’s investment efforts in Israel.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in the Enterprise and Consumer sectors. The Firm currently manages over $3 billion of committed capital and is currently investing out of Lightspeed X, a $635 million fund and Lightspeed Select, a $430 million fund.