Empowering DeFi users to confidently navigate the space — Today we are proud to announce our investment in Treehouse — a company on a mission to deliver data, analytics, and risk management solutions to everyday DeFi investors. Over the years, Lightspeed has invested in over 50+ crypto / blockchain companies across the world, including the likes of FTX, Wintermute…

Crypto and blockchain tech are entering the mainstream zeitgeist in a meaningful way. The latest crypto rally began in Sept 2020, driven by institutional financial services and F500 investors, as well as retail investors across markets such as US, India, Indonesia, S. Korea and China, when Bitcoin prices grew from…

changing the way enterprise software works — Sales and marketing tech are some of the toughest venture-investable categories. While they have birthed several SaaS behemoths — Salesforce and Hubspot being the flag bearers of sales and marketing respectively — the category is littered with 100s of small players that taper off at $5–10M ARR and then eventually…

“I never let my schooling interfere with my education” — Mark Twain There are two defining characteristics of the human species. One, we are genuinely curious about the world. Not only do we love to learn things, we often spend time learning things that aren’t even necessary for survival. Two…

Today, we are honored to announce a $35M series A1 investment in Pintu — a mobile-first crypto investment platform focused on the millennial, new to investing user segment in Indonesia. Over the years, Lightspeed has invested in over 50+ crypto / blockchain companies across the world, including the likes of…

Today we are proud to lead a $4.5M seed investment in Hubilo — a company based in SF & India, building the “system of record / enterprise intelligence hub” for the events industry. Hubilo is poised to become just as critical to the fast emerging events stack as Salesforce and…

During the pandemic I have been making feeble attempts at getting back to playing the piano again. Took a few online classes to warm up and yesterday, during a lesson, my teacher asked me about past exposure to music (beyond listening), and from there the conversation shifted to why I…

The Dos and Don’ts of raising investment from Corporate-VCs I recently ran a twitter poll asking the audience what topic they’d like me to write about and “raising from corpdev/strategics” won out. Lucky for me, I do have a lot to say on this. While I spent most of my…

6 months later: Return to India after 15yrs in the US I got a great response from my Return to India: a decision framework. Every week or so, I meet a founder who asks me how my transition back has been, so this article was inevitable. For the uninitiated, I spent 2003–2018 outside of India, primarily in USA (14yrs) and UK…