# Lightrock india (Aspada)

> Lightrock india (Aspada) is a VC fund backing Agriculture and Health Care. See 57 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, India
- Total investments: 57
- Last investment: Aug 2023
- Lead investor: 51%
- Last fund: Jan 2008
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/aspada-investments
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/AspadaInv
- Website: http://www.aspada.com/

Lightrock india (Aspada) is a VC fund in Bangalore focused on Agriculture and Health Care. We support driven entrepreneurs in large and essential markets by providing early stage risk capital to businesses in India that expand market access, improve livelihoods, and create large-scale employment opportunities in underserved communities.Aspada Capital Advisors provides investment advice and portfolio oversight to the SONG Fund, anearly stage venture capital fund capitalized by the Soros Economic Development Fund, the Omidyar Network, and Google.Aspada Investment Advisors provides investment advice and portfolio oversight to Aspada Investments, an equity and structured product venture capital investment vehicle backed with a significant commitment by the Soros Economic Development Fund.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1M–$10M |
| Series B | $3.7M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Agriculture | 7 | 12% |
| Health Care | 7 | 12% |
| Financial Services | 7 | 12% |
| Education | 6 | 11% |
| Supply Chain Management | 6 | 11% |

65 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 13 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 13 | 23% |
| Series B | 8 | 14% |
| Series C | 6 | 11% |
| Seed | 4 | 7% |

9 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kushal Agrawal | Partner and CFO | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kushal-agrawal |
| Thomas Hyland | Co-Founder & Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-hyland-2 |
| Divya Venkatavaraghavan | Principal | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/divya-venkatavaraghavan |
| Kartik Srivatsa | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kartik-srivatsa |
| Vaidhehi Ravindran | Investor and Principal | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vaidhehi-ravindran |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MediBuddy | MediBuddy is a digital healthcare platform for an inpatient hospitalization, outpatient services, and corporate wellness benefits.MediBuddy is the award-winning technology platform from Medi Assist that transforms the health insurance industry at the very core. MediBuddy, with its diverse offerings for various stakeholders of the health benefitsindustry, makes the process of discovering, accessing, utilizing, and monitoring health benefits seamless, real-time, and virtually paperless. The company was founded in 2000 and based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. | $18M |  | Aug 30, 2023 |  |
| Chalo | Chalo develops a transport application that delivers real-time transit information such as live tracking, get the transit arrival time, and more. From live tracking buses to providing digital solutions focusing on cashless rides, Chalo dreams to make public transport accessible, affordable, and hassle-free for Indian commuters.The Chalo Appprovides live tracking of over 15,000 buses in 21 cities and has more than 70 lakh downloads as of July 2021. The Chalo Card, a contactless tap-to-pay travel card, is a successful bus travel card. Chalo also offers products like mobile tickets, mobile bus passes, and multi-trip 'Super Saver' plans that can be bought on the Chalo App as well as through the Chalo Card. Chalo partners with bus operators to deploy this technology and improve the bus travel experience. | $45M | Series D | May 22, 2023 |  |
| Neogrowth | Neogrowth operates as a non-banking financial company in India. It is focused on meeting the financial needs of small businesses which sell goods and services to consumers. It offers business financing services to small- and medium-sized retail companies that sell apparel, consumer durables and electronic items, footwear and accessories,handicrafts, gifts, and optical goods as well as to restaurants, beauty salons, hotels, gymnasiums, and health diagnostic centers. NeoGrowth began its commercial operations in 2013. | $36.2M | Series D | Dec 15, 2022 |  |
| BeatO | BeatO, short for beat diabetes (the 'O' being the ring of diabetes), is a mobile platform that motivates a diabetic to increase compliance and reduce their out of pocket expense. Their small and nimble health and tech focused team comprises top talent that brings in the passion and desire to roll out the best user experience for adiabetic in managing their ailment. In their core team (tech & business), we have Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics, with real life practical know-how of diabetes and how to beat it. | $33M | Series B | Nov 16, 2022 |  |
| Even | Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost. | $15.3M | Convertible Note | Nov 10, 2022 |  |
| DeHaat | DeHaat is a technology-led platform that offers end-to-end agriculture services to Indian farmers with an aim to improve the efficiencies of the agriculture value chain.DeHaat connects small farmers to their various needs – Seeds, fertilizers, equipment, crop advisory, and market linkage through a wide network of trained micro-entrepreneurs.Registered farmers get access to a wide range of agricultural inputs (Seed, Fertilizer and Crop protection) directly from competitive sources. Subsequently, they get customized crop reminder call in the local language as well as crop monitoring support from the same DeHaat micro-entrepreneur. Lastly, they sell the farm produce directly to institutional buyers. Farmers place their various demand related Agri input, field visit or Agri output either through the toll-free number or mobile application and get last-mile services through assigned micro-entrepreneur. | $60M | Series E | Oct 21, 2022 |  |
| MediBuddy | MediBuddy is a digital healthcare platform for an inpatient hospitalization, outpatient services, and corporate wellness benefits.MediBuddy is the award-winning technology platform from Medi Assist that transforms the health insurance industry at the very core. MediBuddy, with its diverse offerings for various stakeholders of the health benefitsindustry, makes the process of discovering, accessing, utilizing, and monitoring health benefits seamless, real-time, and virtually paperless. The company was founded in 2000 and based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. | $125M | Series C | Feb 22, 2022 |  |
| Dunzo | Dunzo is a hyper-local delivery app that connects users to the nearest delivery partner. The delivery and e-commerce company offers services that include delivery of packages, groceries, food, medicines, pet supplies, and more. It strives to advance the retail landscape by providing micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) with digitaltools and solutions to streamline and facilitate eCommerce sales. Dunzo is backed by investors Alteria Capital, Google, Lightbox, Evolvence, LGT Lightstone Aspada, and S Korea's Hana Financial Investment.It was co-founded by Ankur Aggarwal, Dalvir Suri, Kabeer Biswas, and Mukund Jha in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India in 2015. | $12M | Series E | Jan 19, 2021 |  |
| Arya Collateral | Arya Collateral Warehousing Services provides post-harvest services including warehousing, warehouse receipt financing, rural storage discovery, collateral management and market linkages. | $21M | Series B | Dec 15, 2020 |  |
| Cuemath | Cuemath is an international online learning platform that offers math and coding programs for K-to-10 students. Cuemath makes every aspect of learning maths engaging and comprehensive by using math worksheets and application-based technology under the supervision of trained and certified teachers. The Cuemath Program has been designed to build astrong math and coding foundation in children by sharpening their knowledge of concepts, aptitude, and reasoning skills. Cuemath was founded in 2013 and is based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. | $40M | Series C | Dec 08, 2020 |  |

10 of 57 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Lightrock india (Aspada) invest in?

Lightrock india (Aspada) invests primarily in Agriculture, Health Care and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 57 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Lightrock india (Aspada)'s check size?

Lightrock india (Aspada) typically joins rounds of $1M–$10M at Series A and $3.7M–$50M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lightrock india (Aspada) participates in.

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### Who are the partners at Lightrock india (Aspada)?

The team at Lightrock india (Aspada) includes Kushal Agrawal (Partner and CFO), Thomas Hyland (Co-Founder & Partner) and Divya Venkatavaraghavan (Principal). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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