Lightspeed India Partners
VC Fund
New Delhi, India
Lightspeed India Partners is a VC fund in New Delhi focused on Financial Services and Software. Lightspeed Venture Partners has invested in direct and cross-border. They invest across several stages and sectors, including technology-led businesses as well as non-technology opportunities in sectors such as advertising and media, business services, financial services, healthcare, education, and retail.
- Total investments:
- 208
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 46%
- Fund size:
- $500M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Lightspeed India Partners invests in
Stages Lightspeed India Partners invests in
Countries Lightspeed India Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 13 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.7M–$11M
- Series A
- $4M–$40M
- Series B
- $15M–$87M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 13 (6%)
- Software 12 (6%)
- Information Technology 12 (6%)
- Internet 9 (4%)
- E-Commerce 9 (4%)
Stage
- Seed 39 (19%)
- Series A 38 (18%)
- Series B 14 (7%)
- Funding Round 11 (5%)
- Series C 7 (3%)
Country
- India 60 (29%)
- United States 10 (5%)
- Indonesia 1 (0%)
- Singapore 1 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hemant Mohapatra
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 55 | Find email | |
Vaibhav Agrawal
Associate Partner
|
Associate Partner | Total investments: 17 | Find email | |
Akshay Bhushan
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 18 | Find email | |
|
Amit Mehra
Chief Financial Officer
|
Chief Financial Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Barry Eggers
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 35 | Find email | |
| See all 13 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nuance Labs, an AI research company, is developing the first human foundation model that understands and displays emotion in real time using voice, facial emotions, and body language. | $50M / Series A / Sep 14, 2026 | ||
| Airbound aims to enable 100km delivery at 20rs ($0.25) to every corner of the world. We're able to do this by building the world's first blended wing body tailsitter, which allows us to have a much smaller and cheaper frame, and a 0 infrastructure requirement. We want to bring this technology to the most rural parts of India, where therecurrently in no delivery service, and enable essential medical deliveries between Community Health Centers (CHCs), Primary Health Centers (CHCs), and Subcenters (SCs). | $37M / Series A / Aug 24, 2026 | ||
| Centricity is a digital private wealth management platform-as-a-service for Investment Professionals & High Networth Investors. | $24.1M / Series A / Aug 13, 2026 | ||
| AI agents that discover new materials for semiconductor chips. | $9M / Seed / Aug 10, 2026 | ||
| Mitti Labs is a deeptech company that leverages AI, satellite technology, and field operations to permanently reduce methane emissions from rice farming. By doing this, we unlock the potential of rice-based carbon credits for measurable climate action at scale. Loved and consumed by half the world’s population daily, rice farming has GHG emissionsequivalent to the global aviation industry, due to methane. Our work transforms a critical agricultural sector into a high-integrity source of climate impact, water savings, and farmer income. We empower smallholder farmers across the global south to adopt climate-smart practices that are measurable, traceable, and economically rewarding. Backed by leading investors, our team is building the infrastructure to scale climate-smart rice farming and unlock real impact from the ground up. | $9.5M / Series A / Aug 05, 2026 | ||
| Fixxly is a quick-commerce platform built exclusively for trade professionals. It is specifically designed to eliminate half-day site delays caused by missing parts. | $5.5M / Seed / Jul 29, 2026 | ||
| Exponent Energy focuses on developing fast charging technology for electric vehicles.Exponent Energy's energy stack can speed up and simplify energy and charging for their client's electric vehicles which ensures the least amount of impedance buildup and results in a continuous flow of energy.The company also offers customers abattery management system, battery pack, and charger that all function in concert.Exponent Energy was established in 2020 by Arun Vinayak and Sanjay Byalal Jagannath in Bangalore, Karnataka. | $21M / Series B / Jun 10, 2026 | ||
| Trackk is a modern stock market and trading platform primarily focused on the Indian markets. | $3.1M / Seed / May 18, 2026 | ||
| Snabbit is a platform that connects people who want to help with housework. Snabbit provides an application for finding information on professionals in household duties, allowing users to acquire rapid and dependable domestic assistance in just a few minutes. | $56M / Series D / Apr 28, 2026 | ||
| Oolka is a credit-building website that connects lenders and borrowers and shows credit scores. | $13.8M / Series A / Apr 23, 2026 | ||
| See all 208 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Lightspeed India Partners invest in?
Lightspeed India Partners invests primarily in Financial Services, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 208 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Lightspeed India Partners's check size?
Lightspeed India Partners typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$11M at Seed, $4M–$40M at Series A and $15M–$87M 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 Lightspeed India Partners participates in.
How do I contact Lightspeed India Partners?
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Who are the partners at Lightspeed India Partners?
The team at Lightspeed India Partners includes Hemant Mohapatra (Partner), Vaibhav Agrawal (Associate Partner) and Akshay Bhushan (Partner), among 13 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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