Bucky Moore

Partner at Lightspeed

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 30 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2026
VC🌍 United States20+ investmentsInvested this year
30
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Apr 2026
Andera is using AI to automate the manual burden of SOX testing for enterprises.
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Feb 2026
Temporal develops and distributes the worlds leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple. Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair. More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industrys most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.
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Dec 2025
Inferact is a startup founded by creators and core maintainers of vLLM, the most popular open-source LLM inference engine. Our mission is to grow vLLM as the worlds AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster.
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Nov 2025
Ex-Apple, Luma AI, Meta, Microsoft and Google. We have been at every major visual AI inflection point. This is the next one.
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Oct 2025
Monitor your AI app the right way. AI engineers use Raindrop to get alerts about hidden issues and successes in their AI products. Raindrop sends you alerts when your AI misbehaves and links straight to the events, so you can dig into the conversations or traces, understand the root cause, and fix it, fast.
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Sep 2025
Unconventional AI is rethinking the foundations of a computer to optimize energy efficiency for AI. Founded by experts in AI systems, analog circuits, computing theory, and neuroscience, we are bringing biology-scale efficiency to artificial intelligence.
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Jul 2025
Were redefining how machine intelligence reasons about data. Sphinx is AI that thinks in statistics and patterns - not just language or code. Our copilots work with data professionals to transform raw information into actionable insight: refining forecasts, optimizing operations, and powering applications from supply chains to sabermetrics.
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May 2025
Created by researchers from UC Berkeley, Arena (formerly LMArena) is a community-powered platform to measure and advance the frontier of AI for real-world use. Tens of millions of builders, researchers, and creative professionals come to Arena to use frontier models and give feedback on their responses, shaping a public leaderboard grounded in real-world use.
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Feb 2025
Nexthop AI is an infrastructure startup building the most efficient Al infrastructure for the worlds largest cloud operators. We are a cohesive team of seasoned industry experts, who through their collaborative product design as well as system and network engineering capabilities are leading the charge on disruptive technical innovation for AI and Cloud networking.
Board Member
Feb 2025
Traversal is building an AI site reliability engineer that troubleshoots, remediates, and even prevents production issues in complex software systems – always on call, so engineers don’t have to be. Already deployed in some of the world’s largest enterprises, Traversal improves the resilience of mission-critical systems — reducing MTTD and MTTR by up to 90% and supporting services that reach millions globally. We’re a team of top-tier AI researchers and engineers. To learn more about Traversal or apply for open roles, visit: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/traversal
Board Member
Nov 2024
Our mission is to architect AI that learns and interacts like humans. Try Sonic and Ink at https://play.cartesia.ai
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May 2024
Browserbase is the all-in-one platform developers need to host, manage, and monitor headless browsers in the cloud.
Board Member
Nov 2023
Together AI is the AI Native Cloud, purpose-built for AI engineers and researchers with a full suite of tooling across inference, model shaping, and pre-training. AI natives can use Together AI as a full-stack AI platform — from a high- performance inference engine built for reliable and fast scaling to on-demand GPU clusters and massive-scale AI factories. Together AI continuously pushes the frontier forward by productizing cutting-edge research from our world-leading AI systems research team. By combining research velocity with production-grade infrastructure, we enable companies to reliably scale AI-native applications as fast as the field evolves. Trusted by leading AI natives like Cursor, Decagon, Eleven Labs, AI21, Hedra, and Cartesia, as well as SaaS innovators such as Salesforce, Zoom, and Zomato, Together AI powers the next generation of AI-native applications.
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Aug 2022
Bun is an incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, transpiler, and package manager.
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Jul 2022
Allium provides on-chain data infrastructure products ranging from managed blockchain databases, enriched data schemas, to real-time alerting capabilities.
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2026
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Apr 2026
Andera is using AI to automate the manual burden of SOX testing for enterprises.
early stageAccounting
Investor
Feb 2026
Temporal develops and distributes the worlds leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple. Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair. More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industrys most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.
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Dec 2025
Inferact is a startup founded by creators and core maintainers of vLLM, the most popular open-source LLM inference engine. Our mission is to grow vLLM as the worlds AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster.
Investor
Nov 2025
Ex-Apple, Luma AI, Meta, Microsoft and Google. We have been at every major visual AI inflection point. This is the next one.
Investor
Oct 2025
Monitor your AI app the right way. AI engineers use Raindrop to get alerts about hidden issues and successes in their AI products. Raindrop sends you alerts when your AI misbehaves and links straight to the events, so you can dig into the conversations or traces, understand the root cause, and fix it, fast.
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