Lisa Han

If you’re an AI lab, robotics company, or speech research team in need of training data — or a contributor looking to participate — visit luel.ai.

As AI moves into the frontier, the bottleneck for human data now shifts to massive, net-new human generated data to further train these models. Luel is a two-sided marketplace for rights-cleared, multimodal training data. Our investments thoughts here: lsvp.com/stories/our-in…

We at @lightspeedvp are excited to co-lead @LuelCompany's $31.2M financing with @generalcatalyst. @williamnamgyal and @Lenderking are force of nature founders who've assembled a world class team of former IOI, IMO medalists and talented researchers to build Luel as the infrastructure to power the next generation of frontier AI with human intelligence. If this excites you, come join the team. Thoughts below ⬇️ cc @ravirajjain

What started as two teenagers bonding over their love for digital gigs evolved into two founders turning their passion into a platform. @luelcompany co-founders @williamnamgyal and @Lenderking built their digital marketplace to strengthen infrastructure for human data. Luel invites AI labs and enterprises to submit dataset requests, match contributors to the task, and quality check each submission. Contributors are paid for their contributions, and AI companies gain valuable, real-world data that improves their software. The embodiment of a symbiotic relationship. That’s why we’re excited to announce that we co-led their recent $31.2M Seed round alongside @generalcatalyst. There’s only so much data to be scraped online. The next AI models will need high-quality, human-led data based in reality, and Luel is among those leading the charge.

I'm beyond excited to announce that I’m joining @Lightspeed as a Partner on the early-stage investing team and helping to build everything they're doing in new media. I've spent the last six years investing in early-stage companies, and the last year building a media platform in parallel. What started as a side quest has reached 350,000+ followers and millions of viewers a month. For me, investing and storytelling have always been two halves of the same job. This work has put me in rooms with incredible founders, researchers, and operators - many of whom have become close friends, collaborators, and early stage bets. There's so much happening at the frontier right now, and the media platform has given me a way to be in those conversations early (and to bring the people I admire most into a wider audience). When Lightspeed reached out, we saw the same opportunity. Venture and media are converging, and the next generation of great firms will need to show up differently: reaching founders and builders before they've even started a company, and being the place where people first get excited about what's happening in tech. With more than $50 billion in AUM, Lightspeed has been building alongside founders at the frontier of technology for decades. It's a firm I've admired for years since I started investing - for its intellectual rigor, its long-term conviction, and the way it approaches company building. I’m excited to join a team that brings real depth and substance to its work, and I hope to bring that same ethos to everything I put out. Thank you to @ravi_lsvp, @bsomaia , and @Machiz for believing in this vision and trusting me to help build it. I’m so excited to see what we do together. If you're an early-stage founder, building or thinking about starting something, or just curious about this ecosystem - please reach out. My DMs are open and I’d love to chat!

@bilalfarooqui @thogge Re Vinod - Are you serious? Apart from OAI, the guy invested $3m into Juniper networks which returned $7b in three years.

@thogge Leone def makes the cut Khosla maybe

vc goats: - arthur rock - don valentine - john doerr - michael moritz - bill draper - tom perkins - eugene kleiner - marc andreessen - ben horowitz - paul graham - peter thiel who am i missing?

@eladgil I’m surprised no one mentioned Acquerello yet! Amazing institution

What is best Italian in SF?

@tkkong @philhchen Finally!! Excited :)

I’ve started a new company with @philhchen! Phil built frontier LLMs across research & engineering at OpenAI, DeepMind, and Scale. I was shipping AI experiments at Ramp Labs. We've been heads down building personalized AI coworkers for every business. We’re growing our team of researchers, designers, and IMO gold medalists. Reach out if you're interested!

@anothercohen I would never buy a barrel shaped sauna. It looks great but is not the optimal shape for consistent heat dispersion amongst other reasons - its also one level so it won’t get as hot. See this guide for best practices. localmile.org/trumpkins-note…

Wife just saw this at Sam's Club. Tell me why I shouldn't buy this sauna!

@evisdrenova @TrustVanta @shravvmehtaa at @secureframe is great

I will never use @TrustVanta again after how they just treated us. My company was acquired in August of 2025. We promptly emailed Vanta to inform them that we are shutting down our business and need to cancel. After 1 month, they finally replied with direction. "Can you send us acquisition documents?" I replied back and said "I can't legally share our acquisition documents with a vendor, what do you need?" They then ghosted us until January of 2026 (5 months later). During this time, they charged us for 2 quarterly payments (about $5K total). In January 2026, they finally said they need a certificate of dissolution, which I sent to them. They then refunded us $700. I asked for a refund dating back to August 26th when we initially sent the cancellation email. They responded with, "we cannot refund you because the Vanta software was still running until January of 2026. " It was running BECAUSE YOU GHOSTED US AND DIDN'T PROCESS OUR CANCELLATION. @christinacaci is this how you do business and treat your customers who trusted you for 2+ years?

Alysa Liu - retires for 2.5 years and comes back to win gold and end the 24 year Olympic drought for USA women’s figure skating. As she aptly put it after her free skate, “That’s what I’m f-ing talking about”!!!

@josh_coyne @BraceSproul @LangChain @barrnanas the SF sidewalk yelp got me 😂

If you're a founder and looking for an effusive reaction to your new AI product, you know who to call... In all seriousness, congrats @BraceSproul & the @LangChain team on an epic new product launch!

Crazy to think that this was the inverse for the last 30+ years

Actually, not quite correct. A substantial amount of biglaw work is switching from the billable hour to flat rate fees because customers are demanding efficiency post chatgpt experience. The only reason lawyers change behavior is if their end client demands it and threatens to leave. Carta was the OG example.

Heard from a VC partner that, despite Harvey’s strong topline numbers (100+ mil ARR), actual usage within firms appears low… Harvey clearly has strong GTM and brand-driven adoption, helped by enterprises scrambling to look AI-native. 🤔My concerns: We’ve seen this movie before with Microsoft Copilot non-renewals, firms cut AI spend once they realize actual usage doesn’t justify the cost. Law firms bill by time. AI compresses time. That incentive mismatch is structural, and I’m not convinced the industry will change fast, if ever.

The future of music is already here, and anyone can create it. Today, @Suno announced a $250M Series C round to keep building an ecosystem where creators, listeners, and the broader music communities can make and share music together. Nearly 100 million people have created music on Suno in just two years, and many have found a new passion in the process. Co-Founders @MikeyShulman, @fut_ure (Martin Camacho), @GeorgKucsko, and Keenan Freyberg are working towards building more advanced tools, richer experiences for casual creators, and new ways for people to connect through music. Big congrats to the entire Suno team! Cc: Lightspeed Partners @mignano and @lisabethhan

@josh_coyne @yogi_maximus @ItsMeAxe "All others, we audit...including my wife"

We’ve been looking for a company applying AI to enterprise accounting for 2+ years. After meeting @yogi_maximus, @ItsMeAxe, and Jack Liao last year, we knew we had to be in business with them. They’re forces of nature with deep empathy for the problem space and technical prowess to reinvent it. We’re excited to lead @maxima_dot_ai’s seed round and double down in its Series A. As the saying goes, “In God we trust. All others, we audit.” @anaganath

“Good things happen to good people”. I can’t think of a better adage that applies to @eglyman and @karimatiyeh and the @tryramp team. Grateful to have been on the ground at @tryramp as an early employee and now partner with them in a meaningful way here at @lightspeedvp. Congrats team 💪🏼 cc. @sach_pat @wakohler

While I'm a fan of founders having a pulse on their competitors, it gets dicey when they become competitor-obsessed at the sacrifice of being customer-obsessed.

@JLopas Bless @cplee123 ‘s heart

First night this week I left the office before 9pm (8:56pm)