Lightspeed India

The vast troves of data generated today help businesses make better decisions. However, the larger thought within the data community is…

India’s focus on local manufacturing with its Make in India initiative has coincided with a focus on self-reliance or Aatmanirbhar Bharat…

Indian businesses are building for the world. While SaaS leads this trend, we have seen it expand to other businesses as well. At this…

Internet penetration has benefited consumers and has had a second-order impact on businesses. For every Dropbox or Facetime, there’s also a…

By Harsha Kumar & Romit Mehta

Hundred enthusiastic builders coming together for a 24-hour marathon challenge to build for the next iteration of web3. That’s what…

building the world’s backend

(Originally published on Linkedin March 3, 2022)

(originally published on Linkedin March 30, 2022) Over the last 15 years, Lightspeed has partnered with nearly 100 companies in India and…

If you ever talk to Jeff Bezos, don’t ask him about each engineer on his Blue Origin team and the progress each engineer is making. He…

building the Bloomberg Terminal for DeFi

Earlier this month, I wrote about Indian technology startups finally finding their feet globally. Especially in the US. Going global is not…

The world has shrunk over the past decade. Technology has made borders and time zones less relevant. Remote and hybrid teams made up of…

Here at Lightspeed, we partnered with Jayant, Chaitanya and Rohit at Darwinbox at the Series A in 2017. I wanted to take a moment to…

Lightspeed is thrilled to partner with Nitin Agarwal and Supam Maheshwari as they seek to build a tech-powered, new-age multi-brand…

In 2016 when Dev Khare and I met Abhinav, Sandy and Kanav, there wasn’t a single example of a vertical software company built from India to…

A market map of the emerging and leading crypto/blockchain companies in this part of the world

A no-code automation platform for enterprise business processes

Lightspeed’s investment in Kalam Labs — a live gaming & game streaming platform for STEM learning

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…

We are thrilled to partner with Anirudh Singla and Rishabh Shekhar to build Pepper Content into the world’s largest content marketplace…

Today we’re excited to announce that Acceldata has closed an $8.5 million Series A financing led by Ken Elefant at Sorenson Ventures with…