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The Billion Dollar AI Lab Founder Who Sees The Future First | Karan Goel, Founder & CEO of Cartesia Aug 7, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:17 Karan Goel From a couple of funds like Factory and Conviction, um, and, um, you know, um, Lightspeed as well was part of that.

How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B) May 10, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:10 Poojan Kumar We pretty much grew up together at Oracle, right, and then we shared our same investor and, uh, in terms of Lightspeed and so on and so forth, so a lot of things were common.

Which AI Model are companies actually Paying For in 2026? | Rohit Agarwal, Portkey Mar 19, 2026 · 1 mention

Why Finding Your ‘Rapido Bet’ and Surviving Your ‘Meesho Miss is the Best Job | Pratik & Brij Nov 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:35 Brij Bhushan One and a half years UIS time Nexus, abhi ayo, you should spend time, and Anshu was at Lightspeed for many years.

Lightspeed’s $500M Bet On India With 1/3rd In AI Companies | Dev Khare | Neon Show Mar 28, 2025 · 24 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Today I have with me Dev Khare, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:21 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Today I have with me Dev Khare, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:23 Dev Khare And, uh, he had been the one initially starting off Lightspeed's operations. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:09 Dev Khare Um, practice that we'd started at Lightspeed in, you know, 2016, 17 had grown. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:42 Dev Khare And that's actually one of the big themes that Lightspeed has focused on the last.
  • ▶ 18:22 Dev Khare I remember coming here in 20 11 before joining Lightspeed.
  • ▶ 29:33 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Let's say, for example, rubric from Lightspeed portfolio, right?
  • ▶ 40:47 Dev Khare Are you talking about any company we back at light speed or specifically in these AI services and AI services?
  • ▶ 46:39 Dev Khare We don't, at Lightspeed, we don't sort of say, hey, I can only invest in one sector, or you can only invest in one sector.
  • ▶ 48:22 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Like Lightspeed has produced some of the, the most celebrated exits from India. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:08:18 Dev Khare Uh, Lightspeed did the next round after that, and so on.

2X SaaS Founder: How To Sell Global Tech Products From India | Sharath Narayana | Neon Show Feb 22, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:39 Sharath Narayana Three weeks before demo day, we got an inbound from, um, Lightspeed and then Sequoia and then Nexus.

How I Built A $1B Business | Kirthiga Reddy, Founder, Verix | The Neon Show Jan 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:05 Kirthiga Reddy We have people like Abhishek Nag, who was one of our first managers that we hired from ISB, has been a partner at Lightspeed.

2024 VC Updates, IPO Trends, And Fundraising Advice with Churchill’s Raja Doddala I Neon Show Jul 5, 2024 · 1 mention

Global VC's Honest Opinion About India's Startup Ecosystem Explained | Stepstone Group Partner Jun 5, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 17:16 Siddhartha Ahluwalia For example, Stellaris has been one of your recent managers that you have backed in India, and previously to that you have been backing Lightspeed and Chirate also.
  • ▶ 20:16 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Recently, you have led, I think, a one fifty million dollar round in Pocket FM, which is a light speed company.
  • ▶ 32:16 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And, uh, it's interesting to know, right, at least from an Indian vantage point of view, that the funds that you backed initially in India, Nexus, Lightspeed Charate, now they're all evolved from, you know,

The India Opportunity, Youth’s BIGGEST Problem & Future of Startups | India Quotient VC on Neon Show Nov 3, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:45 Anand Lunia So for, for example, some of the companies like a lending card, you know, did not have a traditional tier one VC because they didn't really understand the market, but Mayfield and Sama understood that market, uh, the phenomenal early…

How A 23 year Old Created A $8M Yearly Revenue Content Marketplace Business ft. Anirudh Singla May 23, 2022 · 5 mentions

Zetwerk founder on Pivoting, Funding and Building a Manufacturing Unicorn ft. Amrit Acharya Oct 4, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 41:52 Amrit Acharya So we have, uh, Sequoia, we have Accel, we have Lightspeed, we have Green Oaks, uh, you know, the, um, uh, all, all of them, you know, supported the company when, when, when it was, uh, it was not the easiest decision for, for, I'm sure…
  • ▶ 42:54 Amrit Acharya Like, like the February down rise was speaking about was led by Greenhooks and Lightspeed US.

Hasura Founder on Building For Developers ft. Tanmai Gopal Aug 23, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 20:17 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And I think, uh, in the, the most recent round of twenty-five million, Lightspeed US came in. 2 times in the scene

Founder and CEO of @WhitehatJr Karan Bajaj on his journey | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast May 16, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 34:50 Karan Bajaj Sequoia, Nexus, Matrix, Lightspeed maybe, maybe the top five VCs, right? 2 times in the scene

Inside the mind of Abhishek Goyal, Co-Founder, Tracxn | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast | Top Podcast Ep Apr 19, 2021 · 1 mention

Beerud Sheth on building Elance (nowUpwork) & Gupshup Nov 30, 2020 · 1 mention

Pankaj Makkar, Bertelsmann India Investments, on Investing in Growth Stage Startups May 3, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:42 Pankaj Makkar Uh, very strong partners for us like Accel, Sequoia, uh, Lightspeed, uh, Mayfield, and so on.

Episode 53 | Hemant Mohapatra, Partner, Lightspeed India Partners Feb 24, 2020 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 5:32 unnamed speaker And then I spent about a year there in the enterprise team in Andreessen, and moved back to India, uh, last year to join Lightspeed.
  • ▶ 22:04 unnamed speaker So enterprise has been a recent, I believe, for Lightspeed. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:18 unnamed speaker What is the difference between, you know, you see your investing process at, um, and before that Google and now at Lightspeed? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:07 unnamed speaker Google to Lightspeed.
  • ▶ 37:21 unnamed speaker Lightspeed has made both series seeds and series A investments.
  • ▶ 37:45 unnamed speaker For Lightspeed, most of the investments come from market pieces which you develop. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:31 unnamed speaker And if you could share, you know, what are the things companies market which haven't worked for Lightspeed, and what are the learnings from them? 2 times in the scene

Episode 52 | Anand Lunia, General Partner, IndiaQuotient Feb 17, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 59:24 Anand Lunia Uh, the, the, the great folks at Saif, Lightspeed, Sunway, we all believe, you know, that it will be done, it can be done, you know, how soon, how efficiently, how well we can do, you know, of course.

Episode 49 | Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner, Prime Ventures Jan 27, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:24 Sanjay Swamy And a tremendous respect for, uh, the scale at which a Sequoia, or an Accel, or a Lightspeed, you know, work with, or a Matrix, you know, people like that, Nexus, all these larger funds.

100x Entrepreneur | Episode 19 | Kunal Khattar, Founder and Managing Partner of AdvantEdge Founders Oct 3, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:01 Kunal Khattar We were fortunate enough to build an, uh, an investment thesis and a proposition, uh, which resonated with the likes of Sequoia, and then with, uh, with Lightspeed and Times Internet.
  • ▶ 27:19 Kunal Khattar Um, so we worked with Rajul, uh, on shuttle and, and we were able to raise subsequent rounds of capital from Sequoia and Lightspeed.

The most common mistakes founders make ? w/ Sarbvir Singh, Waterbridge Ventures Sep 14, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:05 Sarbvir Singh I think apart from an academy, I'd like to mention magic pin, which is doing well, which we invested with light speed.
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