Lsvp APIlsvp.com ↗
Access 650+ Lightspeed Venture Partners portfolio companies with investment stage, status, year, partner, and sector via a single API endpoint.
What is the Lsvp API?
The Lightspeed Venture Partners Portfolio API exposes data on 650+ portfolio companies through a single list_portfolio_companies endpoint. Each company record includes the company name, website, funding round, lead partner, sector classification, investment status, and year of investment. You can retrieve the full portfolio in one call or narrow results to a specific sector using the built-in filter parameter.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/2bc450d7-b2f0-4a57-ad60-4d7dd4de58eb/list_portfolio_companies?sector=all' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Typed, relational, agent-ready
A generated client with real types, enums, and the links between objects — the structure a flat JSON response can't carry. Autocompletes in your editor and reads cleanly to coding agents.
- Fully typed · autocompletes
- Objects link to objects
- Typed errors & pagination
Typed Python client. Set up the SDK in your uv project, then pull this API’s typed client:
uv add parse-sdk uv run parse init uv run parse add --marketplace lsvp-com-api
uv run parse add --marketplace pulls a pinned snapshot of this canonical API — it won’t change underneath you. To customize it, subscribe and swap to your own copy.
"""Walkthrough: Lightspeed portfolio SDK — list companies, filter by sector."""
from parse_apis.lsvp_com_api import Lightspeed, Sector, InvalidSector
client = Lightspeed()
# List all portfolio companies (650+), take first 5
for company in client.companies.list(limit=5):
print(company.name, company.status, company.round, company.year)
# Filter by AI sector
ai_company = client.companies.list(sector=Sector.AI, limit=1).first()
if ai_company:
print(f"AI company: {ai_company.name}, stage: {ai_company.round}, sector: {ai_company.sector}")
# Handle invalid sector gracefully
try:
client.companies.list(sector=Sector.ENTERPRISE, limit=3).first()
except InvalidSector as exc:
print(f"Invalid sector: {exc}")
print("exercised: companies.list (all), companies.list (sector filter), typed error catch")
Lists all portfolio companies from Lightspeed Venture Partners. When sector is 'all' (default), returns all 650+ companies parsed from the full page. When a specific sector is provided, uses the server-side filter to return only companies in that sector (limited to first 30 results per sector due to server pagination constraints). Each company includes name, investment round/stage, status (active/ipo/acquired/exited), and year of investment. Website, partner, and sector fields are null unless sector filtering is applied (in which case sector is populated).
| Param | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| sector | string | Filter by investment sector. |
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"total": "integer total number of companies matching the filter",
"companies": "array of company objects with name, website, round, partner, sector, status, and year fields",
"sector_filter": "string indicating which sector filter was applied"
},
"sample": {
"total": 657,
"companies": [
{
"name": "Affirm",
"year": "2013",
"round": "Series B",
"sector": null,
"status": "ipo",
"partner": null,
"website": null
},
{
"name": "Alloy",
"year": "2021",
"round": "Series C",
"sector": null,
"status": "active",
"partner": null,
"website": null
},
{
"name": "Anthropic",
"year": "2024",
"round": "Series D",
"sector": null,
"status": "active",
"partner": null,
"website": null
}
],
"sector_filter": "all"
}
}About the Lsvp API
What the API Returns
The list_portfolio_companies endpoint returns a companies array where each object carries seven fields: name, website, round (investment stage such as seed, Series A, etc.), partner (the Lightspeed partner associated with the deal), sector, status (e.g. active, acquired, public, or defunct), and year of investment. The response also includes a total integer reflecting the count of matched companies and a sector_filter string confirming which filter was applied.
Filtering by Sector
The sector input parameter controls which slice of the portfolio is returned. Omitting the parameter or passing 'all' fetches the complete portfolio — all 650+ companies. Supplying a specific sector string (for example, 'enterprise' or 'consumer') applies a server-side filter and returns up to 30 matching companies. This cap on filtered results is a known limitation of the sector-specific query path, so the full-portfolio call is the right choice when completeness matters.
Practical Scope
The dataset covers Lightspeed's global portfolio as published on lsvp.com/portfolio. The year field lets you slice investments by vintage, status distinguishes active portfolio companies from exits, and round reflects the stage at which Lightspeed entered. These fields together support portfolio composition analysis, sector trend tracking, and sourcing research without any additional enrichment calls.
The Lsvp API is a managed, monitored endpoint for lsvp.com — not a raw scraper you maintain. Every endpoint is automatically health-checked on a schedule, and when lsvp.com changes and a check fails, the API is automatically queued for repair and re-verified. It is built to keep working as the site underneath it changes.
This isn't an official lsvp.com API — it's an independent, maintained REST wrapper over public data. Where the source has no official API (or only a limited one), Parse gives you a stable contract over a source that never promised one, and keeps it current. Need a new endpoint or field? You can revise it yourself in plain English and the agent rebuilds it against the live site in minutes — contributing the change back to the shared API is free.
Will this API break when the source site changes?+
Is this an official API from the source site?+
Can I fix or extend this API myself if I need a new endpoint or field?+
What happens if I call an endpoint that has an issue?+
- Map Lightspeed's sector allocation over time using the
yearandsectorfields. - Identify which Lightspeed partners lead deals in a given sector via the
partnerfield. - Track the share of portfolio companies that have gone public or been acquired using the
statusfield. - Build a searchable directory of Lightspeed-backed startups enriched with the
websitefield. - Compare investment activity by funding stage using the
roundfield across different years. - Filter portfolio companies by sector to benchmark Lightspeed's focus against other VC firms.
- Monitor new additions to the portfolio by diffing the
totalcount across periodic API calls.
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 100 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 100 req/min |
One credit = one API call regardless of which marketplace API you call. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.
Does Lightspeed Venture Partners have an official developer API for its portfolio data?+
What does the `status` field contain, and does it distinguish IPOs from acquisitions?+
status field reflects the portfolio status as shown on lsvp.com — common values include active, acquired, and public. The field does not currently break out IPO versus SPAC versus direct listing as separate statuses; it maps to the labels Lightspeed publishes. You can fork this API on Parse and revise it to add finer exit-type classification if needed.Why are sector-filtered results limited to 30 companies when the full portfolio has 650+?+
sector parameter, the query uses a server-side filter that returns only the first 30 matching results. To get complete coverage for any sector, retrieve the full portfolio by omitting the sector parameter (or passing 'all') and filter the companies array client-side by the sector field.Does the API return individual company funding amounts or valuation data?+
How current is the portfolio data?+
total field at regular intervals is a reasonable way to detect changes.