Siddharth Talwar
Co-Founder & Partner @ Lightbox
Mumbai, India
Siddharth Talwar is a Series A investor at Lightbox in Mumbai focused on E-Commerce and B2B. Siddharth Talwar - Co-Founder & Partner @ Lightbox
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 80%
Last updated:
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Industries Siddharth Talwar invests in
Stages Siddharth Talwar invests in
Countries Siddharth Talwar invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Series A
- $7.7M–$25M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 2 (20%)
- B2B 1 (10%)
- News 1 (10%)
- Gaming 1 (10%)
- Mobile 1 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (30%)
- Seed 1 (10%)
- Angel 1 (10%)
- Series C 1 (10%)
- Funding Round 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Rooter
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Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop. | $16M / May 18, 2023 | |
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Rooter
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Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop. | $25.1M / Series A / Jan 12, 2022 | |
Cityflo
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Pushing your self through a crowd of people to get out at your station. Plunging into a bus hoping you'll be that last guy that fits in. Fighting with ten rickshaw guys to take you to your nearest bus-stop. This has to stop - and we're here to stop it. Cityflo brings you the commute to work you deserve. Experience the comfort of a privatevehicle for the price of much less. | $7.7M / Series A / Nov 25, 2020 | |
Melorra
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Melorra is a jewelry brand that designs and retails affordable and trendy jewelry for everyday wear. Its jewelry is made for contemporary wardrobes and uses a hundred percent 3D printing to provide an accurate and elegant finish to products that enable customers to access trendy jewelry at an affordable price.Melorra’s fashion stylists andjewelry designers work together to create jewelry in line with the global fashion trends week on week. It is made for occasions like casual-dos, work, and parties, with light, contemporary jewelry that can work on a daily basis. Melorra was established in 2016 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. | $12.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 23, 2020 | |
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Melorra
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Melorra is a jewelry brand that designs and retails affordable and trendy jewelry for everyday wear. Its jewelry is made for contemporary wardrobes and uses a hundred percent 3D printing to provide an accurate and elegant finish to products that enable customers to access trendy jewelry at an affordable price.Melorra’s fashion stylists andjewelry designers work together to create jewelry in line with the global fashion trends week on week. It is made for occasions like casual-dos, work, and parties, with light, contemporary jewelry that can work on a daily basis. Melorra was established in 2016 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. | $8.9M / Debt Financing / Sep 08, 2020 | |
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Melorra
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Melorra is a jewelry brand that designs and retails affordable and trendy jewelry for everyday wear. Its jewelry is made for contemporary wardrobes and uses a hundred percent 3D printing to provide an accurate and elegant finish to products that enable customers to access trendy jewelry at an affordable price.Melorra’s fashion stylists andjewelry designers work together to create jewelry in line with the global fashion trends week on week. It is made for occasions like casual-dos, work, and parties, with light, contemporary jewelry that can work on a daily basis. Melorra was established in 2016 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. | $12M / Series C / Oct 09, 2019 | |
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Melorra
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Melorra is a jewelry brand that designs and retails affordable and trendy jewelry for everyday wear. Its jewelry is made for contemporary wardrobes and uses a hundred percent 3D printing to provide an accurate and elegant finish to products that enable customers to access trendy jewelry at an affordable price.Melorra’s fashion stylists andjewelry designers work together to create jewelry in line with the global fashion trends week on week. It is made for occasions like casual-dos, work, and parties, with light, contemporary jewelry that can work on a daily basis. Melorra was established in 2016 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. | $12M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 09, 2019 | |
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Melorra
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Melorra is a jewelry brand that designs and retails affordable and trendy jewelry for everyday wear. Its jewelry is made for contemporary wardrobes and uses a hundred percent 3D printing to provide an accurate and elegant finish to products that enable customers to access trendy jewelry at an affordable price.Melorra’s fashion stylists andjewelry designers work together to create jewelry in line with the global fashion trends week on week. It is made for occasions like casual-dos, work, and parties, with light, contemporary jewelry that can work on a daily basis. Melorra was established in 2016 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. | $5M / Seed / Jan 07, 2016 | |
Droom
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Droom is a tech and data science-driven online automobile marketplace, which offers 21st-century experience in buying and selling automobiles in India. As a marketplace, Droom offers Great Selection, Low Prices, Trust, Transparency, and Convenience second to none. Droom has 600K+ automobiles to choose from with a listed inventory of $14Bn+ fromover 20K+ Auto Dealers and a presence in 1,091 cities. Droom has 6.5 Mn+ Facebook followers, making it the largest auto-focused community in India. Droom has built an entire eco-system around used automobiles for the digital economy, including Orange Book Value (used vehicle pricing engine | 460 Mn+ Queries), ECO (1,000+ points vehicle inspection | 152K+ inspections), History (history records for used vehicles | Database of 250 Mn+ vehicles), Discovery (dozens of pre-buying research tools), and Financial Services (Loan & Insurance). With an 80% market share of the automobile transactions online, Droom is India’s largest automobile platform online and among the largest E-Commerce companies. Droom is among the most trusted consumer internet brands in India often recognized for its innovative approach and technology and is backed by marquee global investors. | $16M / Series A / Jul 30, 2015 | |
ZAPR
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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 Siddharth Talwar invest in?
Siddharth Talwar invests primarily in E-Commerce, B2B and News 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 Siddharth Talwar's check size?
Siddharth Talwar typically joins rounds of $7.7M–$25M 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 Siddharth Talwar participates in.
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When did Siddharth Talwar last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Siddharth Talwar closed in May 2023. 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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