Sandeep Murthy
Co-Founder & Partner @ Lightbox
Mumbai, India
Sandeep Murthy is a Series A investor at Lightbox in Mumbai focused on Health Care and Medical. Sandeep is the glue at Lightbox. Having pulled together the team over the past 3 years, he’s the one responsible for keeping the machine moving as one. Sandeep moved to Mumbai in 2005 to lead Sherpalo Ventures in India. As a Partner with Sherpalo he has been a part of two Indian technology unicorns ($1 billion value companies – InfoEdge andInMobi), with a third (GreenDust) on the way to joining the club. He has led Series A investments and taken operational roles such as CEO and head of Corporate Development in companies like InMobi, Cleartrip and GreenDust.A dreamer from the start, who doesn’t believe in choosing between “this or that” he did his undergrad in both business and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Like most Penn grads he then went into the world of investment banking. However, since it was the height of the dot.com boom, he did it a little differently by moving out to Palo Alto, California to join CSFB Technology Group.Having helped tell a few stories to the public markets Sandeep decided to write his own story and teamed up with a friend to build a digital music company that was incubated by Sony Music – unfortunately, they were 10 years too early and ended up selling the company to Sony after the Internet bubble burst. After a few years of living the Bay Area dream at a start up and getting his MBA from Wharton, he moved to New York City to join InterActive Corp (IAC) – the owners of Expedia, TicketMaster, Home Shopping Network and other consumer technology businesses. While at IAC he helped launched Gifts.com and started to explore the India technology opportunity.If you want to hear some stories of what it takes to build a consumer technology company in India, just pull up a chair and buckle up... it’s been a rocket of a ride.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
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Industries Sandeep Murthy invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 2 (50%)
- Medical 1 (25%)
- Wellness 1 (25%)
- Mental Health 1 (25%)
- Pharmaceutical 1 (25%)
Stage
- Series A 2 (50%)
- Series C 1 (25%)
Investments
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| Amaha is a tech-led omnichannel mental health platform solving the 95% treatment gap in mental health in India. The platform offers a range of tools and services to support individuals with their psychological needs. Amaha is run by a team of experienced healthcare and technology professionals who are passionate about using technology to deliverhigh quality mental healthcare to Indians who are struggling, regardless of age, location, gender and occupation. Dr. Amit Malik, Founder and CEO, and Neha Kirpal, Co-founder, bring both the provider and user perspectives on mental and emotional health to Amaha, along with successful entrepreneurial experience both in India and abroad. | $5.3M / Series A / Mar 30, 2026 | ||
| Generico is the fastest growing specialized pharmacy retail chain of Generic medicines. Started by IIT Bombay alumni, Generico aims at making healthcare affordable for millions of Indians. It provides the biggest portfolio of generic medicines from the reputed pharma companies under one roof and provide up to 80% lesser price. With 6 storescurrently operational in Mumbai, the target is to reach 100 stores in the next one year. | $25M / Series C / Feb 27, 2024 | ||
| Amaha is a tech-led omnichannel mental health platform solving the 95% treatment gap in mental health in India. The platform offers a range of tools and services to support individuals with their psychological needs. Amaha is run by a team of experienced healthcare and technology professionals who are passionate about using technology to deliverhigh quality mental healthcare to Indians who are struggling, regardless of age, location, gender and occupation. Dr. Amit Malik, Founder and CEO, and Neha Kirpal, Co-founder, bring both the provider and user perspectives on mental and emotional health to Amaha, along with successful entrepreneurial experience both in India and abroad. | $5.2M / Series A / Feb 04, 2021 | ||
| Generico is the fastest growing specialized pharmacy retail chain of Generic medicines. Started by IIT Bombay alumni, Generico aims at making healthcare affordable for millions of Indians. It provides the biggest portfolio of generic medicines from the reputed pharma companies under one roof and provide up to 80% lesser price. With 6 storescurrently operational in Mumbai, the target is to reach 100 stores in the next one year. | $14M / Series A / Sep 19, 2019 |
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
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Sunny Rao
Partner
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What does Sandeep Murthy invest in?
Sandeep Murthy invests primarily in Health Care, Medical and Wellness startups, most often at Series A and Series C stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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