Paul Murphy
InvestorPartner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
London
Writes $3M – $20M checks · typically $15M
Contact· self-published, not guessed
Experience
- Lightspeed Venture PartnersPartnercurrent2021 — presentLondon Area, United Kingdom
- Mistral AIInvestor & Board Directorcurrent2023 — presentParis, Île-de-France, France
- Neko HealthInvestorcurrent2025 — presentStockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
- CuspAIInvestorcurrent2024 — presentCambridge, England, United Kingdom
- SupercriticalInvestor & Board Directorcurrent2023 — presentLondon, England, United Kingdom
- Smartex.aiInvestorcurrent2022 — presentPorto, Portugal
- KatchCo-Foundercurrent2021 — presentLondon, England, United Kingdom
- FlinkInvestor2021Berlin, Germany
- HopinInvestor2020 — 2021London, England, United Kingdom
- TIER MobilityInvestor2018 — 2021Berlin Area, Germany
- Klang GamesInvestor & Board Director2018 — 2021Berlin, Germany
- Thirty MadisonInvestor2018 — 2021Greater New York City Area
- NorthzoneGeneral Partner2018 — 2021London
- DotsBoard Director2018 — 2020Greater New York City Area
- DotsCo-founder & CEO2013 — 2018Greater New York City Area
- Giphy…2013 — 2020Greater New York City Area
- IE Business SchoolAdjunct Professor2014 — 2018Madrid Area, Spain
- betaworksPartner2012 — 2017Greater New York City Area
- Aviary, Part of the Adobe FamilyAdvisor2012 — 2013Greater New York City Area
- Aviary, Part of the Adobe FamilyCOO, Advisor2011 — 2013Greater New York City Area
Skills & more
Entrepreneurship71Venture Capital12Marketing Strategy14Product Development25Start-ups58Strategic Partnerships63Strategy52E-commerce4Go-to-market Strategy2SaaS4Product Marketing3Team Building2
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Business PlanningAnalyticsB2BNegotiationNew Business DevelopmentBusiness DevelopmentCompetitive AnalysisMobile DevicesMarket ResearchMergersManagement ConsultingManagementLanguages English · Spanish
From Paul's professional profile.
Colleagues at Lightspeed Venture Partners
Alexander Schmitt
Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
Amber Yang
Investor at Bloomberg Beta
Anand Iyer
Investor and founder in San Francisco
Anoushka Vaswani
Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
Antoine Moyroud
Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
Arif Janmohamed
Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
Banafsheh Fathieh
General Partner at Faction
Barry Eggers
Co-Founder, Lightspeed at Giant Ventures Global Llp
Network6
Amy SchulmanScout
Managing Partner at Polaris Partners
Brett MartinScout
Investor at Charge VC
Ciaran O'LearyScout
General Partner at BlueYard Capital
David Lau-KeeScout
General Partner, Co-Founder at London Venture Partners
Eric Martineau-FortinScout
Founder & Managing Partner at White Star Capital
Filip DamesScout
Founding Partner at Cherry Ventures
Investors connected to Paul in public investor directories — a warm-intro map.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Paul Murphy?
- Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Where does Paul Murphy work?
- Paul Murphy is Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners.
- What check size does Paul Murphy write?
- Paul Murphy typically writes checks of $3M – $20M.
- Where did Paul Murphy go to school?
- Paul Murphy studied at IE Business School (MBA, Business); Virginia Tech (Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical & Computer Engineering).
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Also attended Virginia Tech110
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Shared employers
Also worked at CuspAI11
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Also worked at Hopin13
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