Lightspeed’s Mignano Joins Union Square Ventures to Make AI Bets

Lightspeed Venture Partners investor Michael Mignano, notable for bets on consumer-facing artificial intelligence companies, is leaving the firm to join New York-based Union Square Ventures.

In his three years at Lightspeed, he led the firm’s early bets on companies like AI music generation startup Suno and AI notetaking company Granola, and worked on its investments in Elon Musk’s xAI and Neuralink.

Mignano is the latest high-profile investor to make the jump to a smaller firm. USV has been a fixture of New York’s startup scene since its 2003 founding, backing companies like Coinbase Global Inc., Twitter and Stripe. Mignano said he has long ...