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Investor profile

Raviraj Jain

Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners

About

Raviraj Jain is a trained physicist turned VC who bootstrapped his own hardware startup before joining Lightspeed, giving him deep technical grounding to evaluate AI and robotics companies from first principles while offering founder-empathetic advice from his own company-building experience. He has concentrated early on AI infrastructure and physical world automation, publicly arguing that robotics will be bigger than the Industrial Revolution and backing this thesis with investments in companies like Dexterity and Skild AI that automate complex physical workflows starting with warehouses. Raviraj Jain is a trained physicist turned VC who bootstrapped his own hardware startup before joining Lightspeed, giving him deep technical grounding to evaluate AI and robotics companies from first principles while offering founder-empathetic advice from his own company-building experience. He has concentrated early on AI infrastructure and physical world automation, publicly arguing that robotics will be bigger than the Industrial Revolution and backing this thesis with investments in companies like Dexterity and Skild AI that automate complex physical workflows starting with warehouses.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Sectors
Enterprise
AI
Consumer
FinTech
Health

Investment details

Avg check size$25K - $20M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
Asia-Pacific
USA
Israel
India
Europe