We stare at our phones constantly — watching, reading, typing and swiping all day long. It’s an addiction. And so we end up overusing our…

All of us in the broader startup ecosystem obsess about ‘sexy’ consumer Internet businesses which have high frequency (daily, weekly or…

[This article was first published on Tech In Asia.]

There may be more commerce enabled through WhatsApp groups and Facebook groups in India than on Flipkart and Amazon India combined. Wrap…

Yesterday, Lightspeed India hosted an exciting and intimate fireside chat with Dheeraj Pandey, founder & CEO of Nutanix, in Bangalore…

“Oh my God,” exclaimed one of the scientists at the ground station monitoring the flight path of NASA’s Challenger in January 1986. He…

With our focus on early-stage investing and company-building comes the responsibility of partnering with and supporting exceptional…

We get asked a lot about what our view is on the India market, what stage we invest at and what has been keeping us busy. So here’s a brief…

Pwning the pitch

Recently, I moderated a panel at India Internet Day — it focused on messaging (and not the browser or apps) as the primary medium through…

When it comes to prioritisation, common knowledge is that “customer comes first”. But your customers are diverse and they have very diverse…

[Also published on Yourstory and Magicpin blog]

Lightspeed has been actively investing in India since 2008. In 2015, seeing the tremendous growth in the India technology opportunity…

Someone recently asked me how Ola managed to grow as fast as it did. Many would argue that Ola grew because it gave discounts to customers…