Henry Ni

Henry Ni is Head of Value Creation at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he partners with founders and executive teams across the firm's venture and growth investments. Much of his work today sits at the intersection of AI and operations: helping AI-native companies such as scale go-to-market and organizational infrastructure, and helping established portfolio companies deploy AI across sales, product, pricing, and spend efficiency. He also leads work on complex situations, including turnarounds, cost restructurings, and structured financings, and serves on portfolio company boards.

Before joining Lightspeed in 2024, Henry worked in growth and private equity value creation at Permira, partnering with management teams at McAfee, Carta, and Zendesk. Earlier, he was an engagement manager at McKinsey and an operator at Uber.

Lightspeed Venture Partners Company Profile

Lightspeed is a global, multi-stage venture capital firm managing over $40 billion in assets and a pioneer in AI investing. The firm made its first AI investment in 2012 and has since backed more than 165 AI-native companies with over $5.5 billion, the majority at the Seed, Series A, and Series B stages.

Lightspeed's AI portfolio spans the full stack: frontier model labs including Anthropic, SpaceX / xAI, Ineffable, Discovery Loop, Mistral, Safe Superintelligence, Thinking Machines, and Reflection AI; data and inference infrastructure including Databricks, Exa, Inferact, and Goodfire; physical AI including Skild AI; and AI-native applications including Glean, Abridge, Harvey, ElevenLabs, and Stability AI. Beyond AI, Lightspeed was an early backer of Anduril, Rubrik, Netskope, Navan, Snap, and Wiz.

Lightspeed's Portfolio Value Creation team works hands-on with founders to scale AI-native businesses and apply AI to go-to-market, pricing, and operating efficiency. Learn more at lsvp.com.