# Akshay Bhushan

> Akshay Bhushan is a Series A investor at Lightspeed Venture Partners backing Internet. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners)
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 56%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshaybhushan
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/altecremedy
- Website: http://lsvp.com/?team=akshay-bhushan

Akshay Bhushan is a Series A investor at Lightspeed Venture Partners in Bengaluru focused on Internet and E-Learning. Akshay joined Lightspeed India Partners Advisors LLP (LSIP) in 2015 from Flipkart.com, where he was a founding member of the Corporate Development team and spearheaded early-stage investments in the e-commerce, mobile tech, and consumer internet eco-systems.Akshay previosuly co-founded Whalelogix, a seed-funded e-commerce data-science startupin San Francisco. Prior to Whalelogix, he was a member of the investment team at Accel Partners where he focused on early-stage consumer investments in India. Earlier in his career, Akshay advised private equity funds in evaluating investments during his time at the US and India offices of Bain & Company.Akshay is passionate about the tech startup eco-system and has served as a mentor at Microsoft Ventures India as well as to several entrepreneurs. Akshay holds an MBA from The Wharton School, Philadelphia and graduated with Highest Honors with a B.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.6M–$11M |
| Series A | $4M–$27M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 3 | 19% |
| E-Learning | 3 | 19% |
| EdTech | 2 | 13% |
| Education | 2 | 13% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 13% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 8 | 50% |
| Seed | 4 | 25% |
| Angel | 1 | 6% |
| Series B | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 5 | 31% |
| Indonesia | 2 | 13% |
| Singapore | 2 | 13% |
| United States | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nas.com | Nas.io helps anyone go from idea to revenue in 1 minute with AI. Create digital products, build engaged communities, and automate marketing—all in one intuitive platform. Nas.io puts community first. Challenges, events, social feed, and memberships drive revenue growth for your business. Join 200k+ entrepreneurs and build your dream digitalbusiness with AI in 1 minute, no technical skills required. | $27M | Series A | Apr 08, 2026 |  |
| ASTRO | ASTRO Indonesia is a quick commerce start-up platform that provides groceries and essentials in 15 mins. | $60M | Series B | May 29, 2022 |  |
| ASTRO | ASTRO Indonesia is a quick commerce start-up platform that provides groceries and essentials in 15 mins. | $27M | Series A | Jan 31, 2022 |  |
| ASTRO | ASTRO Indonesia is a quick commerce start-up platform that provides groceries and essentials in 15 mins. | $4.6M | Seed | Nov 02, 2021 |  |
| FrontRow | FrontRow is an online learning platform for creative arts, hobbies and sports. | $14.1M | Series A | Sep 21, 2021 |  |
| Teller Live | Bring faith, courage and hope to users.Building a global Live streaming platform to help people consult with astrologers, tarot readers, life coaches, and mentors on a global level.We were founded in 2019 and landed millions of investments in both seeds round and Series A from top-tier VCs. We set our sights on the global market, devoting toprovide better tarot reading, mental wellness, meditation, and yoga experience to users from all over the world. Empowered by the latest Live streaming and AI technology, we are here to redefine the online Spiritual Wellness industry. | $4M | Series A | Sep 20, 2021 |  |
| Dukaan® | Dukaan operates as a platform that enables small merchants to set up online stores in a process that it claims can be done within 30 seconds. | $9.5M | Series A | Sep 05, 2021 |  |
| Dukaan® | Dukaan operates as a platform that enables small merchants to set up online stores in a process that it claims can be done within 30 seconds. | $11M | Seed | Sep 05, 2021 |  |
| Nas Company (Formerly Nas Academy) | The great irony is that people don’t enjoy education, but they love learning.We believe that Creators can fix that gap with better technology and world-class learning experiences.How?1. We have some of the world’s most engaging teachers 2. We have unmatched learning experiences 3. We are the subject matter experts in the creator economySounds exciting? Join us in building the platform for creators, by creators. | $11M | Series A | Jul 13, 2021 |  |
| Nas.com | Nas.io helps anyone go from idea to revenue in 1 minute with AI. Create digital products, build engaged communities, and automate marketing—all in one intuitive platform. Nas.io puts community first. Challenges, events, social feed, and memberships drive revenue growth for your business. Join 200k+ entrepreneurs and build your dream digitalbusiness with AI in 1 minute, no technical skills required. | $11M | Series A | Jul 13, 2021 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Z47](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matrix-partners-india) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [fresh.fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fresh-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Lightspeed Venture Partners

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies.Lightspeed Venture Partners invests invarious sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social.

5 contacts available at Lightspeed Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Arsham Memarzadeh | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arsham-memarzadeh |
| Galym Imanbayev | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/galym-imanbayev-3ecc |
| James Ephrati | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-ephrati |
| Justin Overdorff | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/justin-overdorff |
| Michael Mignano | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-mignano |

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## FAQ

### What does Akshay Bhushan invest in?

Akshay Bhushan invests primarily in Internet, E-Learning and EdTech startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Akshay Bhushan's check size?

Akshay Bhushan typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$11M at Seed and $4M–$27M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Akshay Bhushan participates in.

### When did Akshay Bhushan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Akshay Bhushan closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 16 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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