Prashant Mehta
General Partner @ Lightbox
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Prashant Mehta is a Series A investor at Lightbox in Dubai focused on E-Commerce and Advertising. Prashant Mehta is based out of Dubai, Dubai and is the Partner of Pulsar Capital. Prashant previously worked at Lightbox as a General Partner. Prashant Mehta attended the Rutgers University.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 60%
Last updated:
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Industries Prashant Mehta invests in
Stages Prashant Mehta invests in
Countries Prashant Mehta invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Series A
- $4.5M–$7.1M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 2 (20%)
- Advertising 2 (20%)
- Ad Targeting 2 (20%)
- News 1 (10%)
- AgTech 1 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 2 (20%)
- Seed 1 (10%)
- Angel 1 (10%)
- Series B 1 (10%)
- Series C 1 (10%)
Country
- India 5 (50%)
- Singapore 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Waycool is an agri-tech company that processes, distributes, and procures fresh produce, dairy products, and staples. The company helps increase farmers’ income, through innovative quality management and food safety technology. It leverages technology and innovation to improve logistics and distribution services. Waycool distributes farm-sourcedfruits, vegetables, and other produce to local shops and modern retail outlets. They have a retail presence, currently in Chennai, through the brand SunnyBee, operating retail stores, mobile stores on trucks, and e-commerce. In addition, there are a number of high-quality private label products that SunnyBee produces and brands through partnerships with sister companies. WayCool establishes direct links to farmers and consumers using physical and information technology to link them efficiently. | $95M / Series D / Jan 13, 2022 | ||
| Rupeek is a financial services company that features an online lending platform that specializes in credit risk, gold loans, and personal loans. It offers lending solutions for lenders and borrowers. The company is driven by its mission is to bring financial inclusion for the masses and introduce products that are transparent and people-friendly.Rupeek was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. | $34M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 11, 2022 | ||
| Nua is an all-new feminine care experience. We aspire to be India's leading femcare brand by building a femtech company that truly cares for every woman's needs. | $7.1M / Series A / Jun 28, 2021 | ||
| Waycool is an agri-tech company that processes, distributes, and procures fresh produce, dairy products, and staples. The company helps increase farmers’ income, through innovative quality management and food safety technology. It leverages technology and innovation to improve logistics and distribution services. Waycool distributes farm-sourcedfruits, vegetables, and other produce to local shops and modern retail outlets. They have a retail presence, currently in Chennai, through the brand SunnyBee, operating retail stores, mobile stores on trucks, and e-commerce. In addition, there are a number of high-quality private label products that SunnyBee produces and brands through partnerships with sister companies. WayCool establishes direct links to farmers and consumers using physical and information technology to link them efficiently. | $20M / Series C / Apr 01, 2021 | ||
| Flintobox provides educational activity boxes for children between the age group of 2-8 years. It is conceived as part of a series of discovery boxes that caters to the holistic development of a child. Flintobox aims at getting kids off screen addiction and engaging them with meaningful activities. Each month holds a new theme based on whichall the activities are curated. The company follows a subscription operational model and delivers the boxes straight to a child’s doorstep. Flintobox looks at teaching children several concepts over the period of their subscription. Currently, Flintobox has more than 1,20,000 subscribers. | $7.2M / Series B / Jul 02, 2020 | ||
| Waycool is an agri-tech company that processes, distributes, and procures fresh produce, dairy products, and staples. The company helps increase farmers’ income, through innovative quality management and food safety technology. It leverages technology and innovation to improve logistics and distribution services. Waycool distributes farm-sourcedfruits, vegetables, and other produce to local shops and modern retail outlets. They have a retail presence, currently in Chennai, through the brand SunnyBee, operating retail stores, mobile stores on trucks, and e-commerce. In addition, there are a number of high-quality private label products that SunnyBee produces and brands through partnerships with sister companies. WayCool establishes direct links to farmers and consumers using physical and information technology to link them efficiently. | $35M / Series C / Feb 07, 2020 | ||
| Nua is an all-new feminine care experience. We aspire to be India's leading femcare brand by building a femtech company that truly cares for every woman's needs. | $4.5M / Series A / Mar 12, 2019 | ||
| Flintobox provides educational activity boxes for children between the age group of 2-8 years. It is conceived as part of a series of discovery boxes that caters to the holistic development of a child. Flintobox aims at getting kids off screen addiction and engaging them with meaningful activities. Each month holds a new theme based on whichall the activities are curated. The company follows a subscription operational model and delivers the boxes straight to a child’s doorstep. Flintobox looks at teaching children several concepts over the period of their subscription. Currently, Flintobox has more than 1,20,000 subscribers. | $7M / Series A / Dec 06, 2017 | ||
| SilverPush offers artificial intelligence-powered advertising technology solutions. Helping some of the largest brands globally, to understand and reach their customers, like never before. With its deep learning and computer vision powered platform MIRRORS, SilverPush helps brands discover their most relevant audience through context-relevantvideo ad placement targeting, in a fully controlled and brand-safe environment. And Parallels, a real-time moment marketing platform helps brands and consumers connect meaningfully through a multitude of real-life live moments. | $1.5M / Seed / Feb 18, 2014 | ||
| ZAPR, is one of the world's first media consumption repositories and cross-targeting platforms. ZAPR's technology platform auto-detects comprehensively all offline media content being viewed by millions of people. ZAPR is currently over 1000x larger than any audience measurement database in India and they're rapidly growing. Forthe very first time, a brand can bridge its offline advertising strategy with its social.mobile.digital strategies, by identifying their audiences, understanding their media habits and targeting the same user base across all mediums - offline and online - mobile and social. Users who are watching TV, but ignoring the commercials, can now be retargeted across social and mobile platforms, to ensure that a brand's wasted TV impressions are reinforced by the second screen. ZAPR is quickly expanding on all fronts - its user base, various media formats (live TV, radio, movies-in-theater, VOD, internet media) as well as geographic presence. ZAPR is a VC funded media-tech startup and is backed by iconic angel and institutional investors from India, Singapore, Europe and US. | Angel / May 10, 2013 |
Co-Investors
About Lightbox
Lightbox is an early-stage VC firm partnering with ambitious entrepreneurs who are addressing unique challenges and opportunities in India's rapidly evolving consumer landscape with technology-led insights. The Lightbox team pairs operational expertise and an understanding of product and brand building, to help build differentiated companies.Representative investments include: Inmobi, InfoEdge, Cleartrip, Embibe, Furlenco, Rebel Foods (formerly Faasos), Melorra and Droom.
Lightbox Contacts
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Siddharth Talwar
Co-Founder & Partner
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Jeremy Wenokur
Partner
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Sandeep Murthy
Co-Founder & Partner
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Sunny Rao
Partner
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FAQ
What does Prashant Mehta invest in?
Prashant Mehta invests primarily in E-Commerce, Advertising and Ad Targeting startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Prashant Mehta's check size?
Prashant Mehta typically joins rounds of $4.5M–$7.1M 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 Prashant Mehta participates in.
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When did Prashant Mehta last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Prashant Mehta closed in Jan 2022. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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