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Market Consolidation: Navigating 2025's Investment Landscape

Lightspeed and Salesforce Ventures share 2025 dealmaking trends and the strategies top firms use to stay ahead in a competitive venture landscape.

How does your firm stack up against top VCs?

Our annual venture capital benchmark report analyzes exclusive data from almost 3,000 VC firms across 68 countries—providing the insights you need to stay competitive.

Join us as we speak with Mercedes Bent, Venture Partner at Lightspeed, and Brian Murphy, Lead Data Scientist at Salesforce Ventures, to get their takes on the report’s findings.

We’ll cover:

  • How dealmaking activity trends have shifted over the past year
  • What top-performing firms do differently 
  • Actionable ways to strengthen your dealmaking strategy

Presenters

Mercedes Bent

Venture Partner

Lightspeed

Brian Murphy

Lead Data Scientist

Salesforce Ventures

How does your firm stack up against top VCs?

Our annual venture capital benchmark report analyzes exclusive data from almost 3,000 VC firms across 68 countries—providing the insights you need to stay competitive.

Join us as we speak with Mercedes Bent, Venture Partner at Lightspeed, and Brian Murphy, Lead Data Scientist at Salesforce Ventures, to get their takes on the report’s findings.

We’ll cover:

  • How dealmaking activity trends have shifted over the past year
  • What top-performing firms do differently 
  • Actionable ways to strengthen your dealmaking strategy

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