Claim · 2025-10-09 · event · Stated in source · Supported

Reflection AI names Lightspeed among its investors in the post announcing its $2 billion raise, and TechCrunch reported on 9 October 2025 that Lightspeed was an investor in the latest round.

One recorded claim. The claim panel gives its qualification, the source passages with their place in each source, and how it was checked.

What it connects

Lightspeed → participated in funding for → Reflection AI

Where it appears

No collection page holds this claim. It is listed with its records in the explorer.

Claim and evidence

Lightspeedparticipated in funding for ↓Reflection AI

Machine-checkedStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary + secondary · 2 sources

Date: 2025-10-09 · event Records dated 2025 →
Transaction type: funding round
Relationship context: external
Period or expected timing: Latest round as of October 2025 (TechCrunch)
Stage: announced

Scope and limitsThe company names its investors without tying each to the round; the round link rests on TechCrunch. No individual amount is stated; the round total is not attributed to this investor.

The evidence 02

primary sourceSupports the claim

Building Frontier Open Intelligence

Reflection AI · 2025-08-09

Cite the original source

Cite the original document, not Selekoa. Check these details against it.

Source excerpt

“We are thankful for the support of our investors including B Capital, Citi, CRV, Disruptive, DST, Eric Schmidt, Zoom Ventures, Lightspeed, NVIDIA, Sequoia, 1789 and others.”

Location in source “Join Us” section

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: Reflection AI
Version: Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 0ccaf038aadc7dc14108ca02f7d9f06448f5032d9325312440ad3d8891ab6b22) directly from the publisher. The page displays the date August 9, 2025; TechCrunch reports the $2 billion raise on 9 October 2025. The displayed date is kept as published and the discrepancy is recorded in the claims.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Reflection AI, “Building Frontier Open Intelligence”, 2025-08-09.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The quotation (26 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item L122) re-read the record’s sources. No human editorial review.

secondary sourceSupports the claim

Reflection AI raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek

TechCrunch · 2025-10-09

Cite the original source

Cite the original document, not Selekoa. Check these details against it.

Source excerpt

“Investors in Reflection AI’s latest round include Nvidia, Disruptive, DST, 1789, B Capital, Lightspeed, GIC, Eric Yuan, Eric Schmidt, Citi, Sequoia, CRV, and others.”

Location in source Final paragraph

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: Rebecca Bellan
Version: Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 c2e22b35ffa71cff1956a63ab28045439f1f3ddfa98513097b4878cabf3f0de6) directly from the publisher.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Rebecca Bellan, “Reflection AI raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek”, 2025-10-09.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The quotation (24 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item L122) re-read the record’s sources. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Machine-checked. Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. Named participation in a financing round. The full round total is not attributed to this investor.

Date. Date of Reflection AI’s own post on X announcing the raise, and of TechCrunch’s report. Reflection’s blog post, and a capture of it of October 2026, display 9 August 2025; the cause of the difference is not established. Not a closing date.

Record ID lg2-nl-reflection-round-2025-lightspeed