Barry Eggers is a co-founder of Lightspeed Venture Partners, where his firm bio describes a focus on information technology infrastructure including analytic platforms, cloud, networking and AI. Before Lightspeed he worked in mergers and acquisitions at Cisco Systems and was a partner at Weiss, Peck & Greer. Lightspeed's own portfolio pages name him on Snap, Nimble Storage, Dremio and AVI Networks. He has written that he first heard about Snapchat from his daughter and her friends in 2012 and that Lightspeed made its seed investment ten days after meeting the founders.
Education
B.A. Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Previous Experience
Mergers and acquisitions, Cisco Systems
Partner, Weiss, Peck & Greer
Notable Investments
SnapNimble StorageAVI NetworksDremio
Career Timeline
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Co-founded Lightspeed Venture Partners with Ravi Mhatre, Peter Nieh and Chris Schaepe.
2008
Backed Nimble Storage at its Series B for Lightspeed.
2012
Learned about Snapchat from his daughter and her friends and brought it to Lightspeed, which made its seed investment ten days after meeting the founders.