Published inLightspeed India Partners ·Dec 1, 2022 Lightspeed India / SEA Climate Tech Market Map This iconic cartoon by Tom Toro was published in the New Yorker on Nov 25th 2012, almost exactly a decade ago. Since then, this innocuous yet ominous graphic has become an exquisite summation of the opposing forces of the climate change movement. On the one hand, we live on a… Climate Change 15 min read Climate Change 15 min read
Published inLightspeed India Partners ·May 26, 2022 Our investment in Supabase building the world’s backend Today we are proud to announce our investment in Supabase — a backend-as-a-service platform that allows frontend developers to easily set up the backend for their apps by providing managed services on top of the Postgres database (auth, access controls, etc.). Our journey with Supabase began… Supabase 6 min read Supabase 6 min read
Mar 29, 2022 Pixxel comes out of stealth with 33M seed & series A building a hyperspectral health monitor for Earth — At Lightspeed, we really care about partnering with generational businesses. Generational businesses need founders that think not 5 or 10 years, but 20 or 30 years ahead. Founders who will spend their lives fixing global-scale problems within their industries. Founders we simply cannot see doing anything else. Ever. Meeting these… Space 5 min read Space 5 min read
Published inLightspeed India Partners ·Mar 17, 2022 Our investment in Treehouse Finance 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… 4 min read 4 min read
Published inLightspeed India Partners ·Nov 12, 2021 Lightspeed’s India & SEA Crypto Market Map 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… Crypto 17 min read Crypto 17 min read
Published inLightspeed India Partners ·Aug 31, 2021 Lightspeed’s investment in Rattle 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… Venture Capital 5 min read Venture Capital 5 min read
Published inLightspeed India Partners ·Aug 13, 2021 The future of Ed is Metaverse, and Kalam Labs is building it! “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… 5 min read 5 min read
Published inLightspeed India Partners ·Aug 9, 2021 Lightspeed’s investment in Pintu, Indonesia’s leading crypto broker for the millennial investor 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… Crypto 5 min read Crypto 5 min read
Published inLightspeed India Partners ·Oct 28, 2020 Our investment in Hubilo: bringing the $1T events industry online 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… 6 min read 6 min read
Oct 3, 2020 A meditation on Chopin 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… Chopin 5 min read Chopin 5 min read