Lightspeed India

Investing in companies building for Bharat, I talk to founders often about building for the diverse Indian audience. Over a myriad…

Part of a series of posts about getting to PMF

“To drive growth, it’s extremely important to quantify the human behaviour you observe when your product has PMF”

Identifying & attracting the right audience for an early stage founder is as critical as being capitalized. Ideally, Founders should be…

“10x year-on-year growth on one KPI” is a sign of growth for an early stage startup

“When things are going wrong, it’s never as bad as you think. When things are going right, it’s never as good as you think.”

Focusing on people important at zero-stage, such as customers, co-founders/employees, advisors, investors.

“People might call it naive irrationality but we always thought the next product will surely work.”

“If there’s one thing you do, automate the pipeline as much as possible” — Sreedhar Peddineni, cofounder Gainsight and Host Analytics

Abhinav and team have built Postman into a truly world-class product and one of the hottest developer focused companies in the world.

“There are moments in your journey that unlock ambition of a different magnitude.” — Sriharsha Majety, CEO, Swiggy

We led the Series A financing in 2017 when Darwinbox had about 50,000 employees on their platform; the platform now has 500,000 employees.

There is increasing pull in the market for Asia-facing SaaS companies, a sea change from what we observed five years ago.

VG belongs to the “Flipkart mafia” and is co-founder at Udaan, a Lightspeed portfolio company, and the fastest unicorn so far in India.

Lightspeed is excited to announce we are co-leading OkCredit’s $67M Series B from both our India and US funds.

When things are working at your startup, what is it that you should focus on? What can bring down a rocket ship?

What does an AI-first org look like? Read takeaways from VPs of Data Science who scaled AI at Makemytrip and Inmobi.

User research is underappreciated. It is very relevant in India, with a variety of cultures, languages, religions and socio-economics.

The Dos and Don’ts of raising investment from Corporate-VCs

Lightspeed led the first institutional round in Setu and founders with incredible backgrounds at Aadhar, Bhim, iSpirit & fintech investing.

The Hyderabad SaaS ecosystems learns from hacks, successes, roadblocks and failures.

Entrepreneurs are solving for India’s new internet users across content, commerce, finance etc. Here are our filters for the news category.

Vertical SaaS company Innovaccer completed a Series B financing of $35 million from M12, Westbridge, and Lightspeed.

It’s somewhat rare to see a truly value-creating relationship between founders and investors but both should invest in this relationship.