About this session
Keith Peiris is Co-Founder and CEO of Lightfield, the AI-native CRM backed by Coatue, Greylock, Lightspeed, and GV. Before Lightfield, Keith co-founded Tome, the AI presentation platform that scaled to 25 million users and raised $81M at a $300M valuation — then walked away from it to rebuild CRM from scratch for the AI era. Earlier in his career, he led product at Instagram, where he grew Instagram Direct to 500 million MAUs. Lightfield has signed over 2,000 companies since its stealth launch in November 2025.
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