Bucky Moore

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners (Menlo Park).

Snapshot

• Role: Partner, enterprise investing — focus on AI, infrastructure, and cybersecurity, at the earliest stages (vocal about doing pre-seed).
• Joined Lightspeed: announced May 5, 2025, from Kleiner Perkins.

Background

• Kleiner Perkins — ~7+ years as a venture investor (worked with Mamoon Hamid); ~11 years in venture overall.
• Notable KP investments: Together AI, Teleport, Labelbox, Browserbase, Netlify, Cartesia, Traversal, Prisma; angel investments in Windsurf, Modal, Pinecone.
• Pre-VC: Cisco Corporate Development (cloud infrastructure M&A).

Fundraise Relationship (init.inc)

• Status: intro offered, not yet made. Suds offered to introduce Sazzad to Bucky on 2026-05-05 via iMessage: “Can I introduce you to my friend Bucky Moore at Lightspeed?”
• As of 2026-05-28 the intro has not been executed — no DM thread and no email with Bucky exists. ^[single-source: iMessage analysis 2026-05-28]
• Note: Lightspeed is already in init.inc’s pipeline via James Alcorn, Amber Yang, and Jonah Cader — Bucky would be a separate (enterprise-partner) lane. See Lightspeed.

Related

• Lightspeed Venture Partners (his firm)
• Suds (offered the intro)