Marketing & Communication @ Lightspeed, Unbridled 'Alpha' girl. 🌅 Truly 'Anthropocentric' … Global @ heart 🌏 I'm a savant at being 'ME' unapologetically ♍
Building a startup teaches founders ‘life works differently for everyone’. Some days bring wins & others feel uncertain. that’s the journey! Blurry days don’t mean you are lost, they mean what you’re building is meaningful. Keep showing up, solving problems & trust the process.
“When M&A markets work well and public markets are deep and accessible, founders and investors have real options on the table; that’s when you know an ecosystem has truly evolved.”
Anuj Bhargava breaks down India’s changing exit landscape in @ForbesIndia, where IPOs are no longer just an endpoint but a way to raise growth capital earlier in a company’s journey. With lower listing thresholds and increasingly sophisticated public market investors, India is carving out a distinct exit playbook versus the traditional US model.
Read the full story ⬇️
https://t.co/7sbG62EeHh
@PayalGanguly14
🚨 It’s cheer o’clock! 🚨
Tomorrow at 7 PM, @bhindiai are helping us cheer on the top projects from Warpspeed 2025.
💫 If your project has potential, it might just get cheered live on Devfolio, with close to $1,000 up for grabs!
See you at 7 tomorrow. Right here.
On #LightspeedLounge, @anshoo Co-Founder & CEO of @mymagicpin unpacks the company's journey to transforming India's offline retail. Learn their strategic moves and how they build trust, efficiency, & path to strong margins.
🎧Tune in!
Fresh out of the #LunchBreakWithLightspeed studio 🎙️
SolarSquare started as a B2B play. Today, they’re powering 20,000+ homes across India.
Co-founders Shreya Mishra and Neeraj Jain join us to talk pivots, products, and what it takes to build a residential solar brand that families can actually trust.
Don’t miss this one. Coming soon! ☀️ @romitme
.@DataSutram is a powerful partner for financial services preparing for the future. We’re excited to back co-founders Rajit Bhattacharya, Aisik Paul, and Ankit Das, and to be part of their journey.
@MohapatraHemant @PriyalMotw89880 @pHequals.@DataSutram is a powerful partner for financial services preparing for the future. We’re excited to back co-founders Rajit Bhattacharya, Aisik Paul, and Ankit Das, and to be part of their journey.
@MohapatraHemant @PriyalMotw89880 @pHequals.@DataSutram is a powerful partner for financial services preparing for the future. We’re excited to back co-founders Rajit Bhattacharya, Aisik Paul, and Ankit Das, and to be part of their journey.
@MohapatraHemant @PriyalMotw89880 @pHequals.@DataSutram is a powerful partner for financial services preparing for the future. We’re excited to back co-founders Rajit Bhattacharya, Aisik Paul, and Ankit Das, and to be part of their journey.
@MohapatraHemant@PriyalMotw89880@pHequals7
First ever private company to launch a constellation of satellites into space in the history of India. Massive respect and congrats to @PixxelSpace. Per aspera, ad astra. 🌠🚀🛰️
As we come closer to the end of an incredible year, let’s take a moment to reflect on the partnerships, milestones, and moments we’ve shared with our community. Here’s a glimpse of #LightspeedHighlights2024.
Looking forward to 2025! 🚀
In the recent @business_today feature, "The 10-Minute Sprint" by @PalakAgarwal64, @rahultaneja shared his insights on the quick commerce landscape. He highlighted what's driving the sector's rapid growth and profitability.
Read more: https://t.co/CEo7PLYOni
We are proud to join forces with @ZeptoNow as they revolutionize the quick commerce landscape in India. Excited to support their journey of innovation and growth over the next decade!
The recent @ft feature, "Unlocking New Markets in India with AI Chatbots" by @b_parkyn, discusses how India, the world's most populous country, is on the brink of a digital revolution. 🌐 AI chatbots are tailored to India's diverse languages, unlocking lucrative new markets across fast-growing industries. As businesses harness AI to connect with a vast range of linguistic demographics, they stand to tap into an enormous, previously underexploited customer base.
Read the full feature with insights from @bsomaia and @MohapatraHemant on the impact, adoption, and implementation of AI and how it could transform India's market landscape. https://t.co/WgXr18vo8K
An insightful session at the recent @superai_conf conference in Singapore, where @PinnLawjindakul co-panelled distinguished speakers and discussed - 'Unveiling Asia's AI Revolution'. The panel shed light on the varying themes across different regions, assessing teams, challenges, technology, trends, and future fostering of AI innovation in Asia.
Takeaways from our dialogue:
🌐 Lightspeed teams are investing in across the US, India, China, and Southeast Asia, and the regional variations.
↗ Our approach to assessing through diverse themes, teams, technology, and trends
📈 Leveraging Lightspeed's global platform to enable companies to create value and tackle complex challenges
#superai
🚨We are super stoked to host the Moneycontrol and CNBC TV18 AI Alliance at NCR this Friday!
This is the third AI event we've put together in the last six months, after successful editions in Bengaluru and Pune.
Check out the power-packed lineup for the Gurugram edition! We will be covering everything from policy to regulation to compute to funding to building AI in India to starting and scaling up in Delhi-NCR.
Join us
Date: 17th May, Friday, 2024
Location: Oberoi, Gurugram
How to register https://t.co/tnXh6O0NvX
SPEAKERS:
-S Krishnan, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
-Abhishek Singh, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
-Tanvi Lall, strategy & operations, people + ai
-Sasank Chilamkutty, founder & CEO, Von Neumann AI
- Rafee Tarafdar, Chief Technology Officer, Infosys
-Rajan Anandan, Managing Director, Peak XV partners
-Kunal Bahl, Snapdeal and Titan Capital
-Ruchi Kalra, co-founder, OfBusiness and Oxyzo
-Varun Alagh, co-founder and CEO, Honasa Consumer
-Hemant Mohapatra, partner, Lightspeed India
- Prateek Maheshwari, co-founder, PW (PhysicsWallah)
-Tanuj Bhojwani, head, people + ai
-Mayank Kumar, MD, UpGrad
-Pratham Mittal, Masters’ Union
@GoI_MeitY@abhish18@RajanAnandan@1kunalbahl@Infosys@PeoplePlusAI@tanujb@MohapatraHemant@VarunAlagh@LightspeedIndia@peakxvpartners
From Seed to Series D, Lightspeed has had the privilege to witness PocketFM's journey to $150M in revenue very closely. Their customer-centric approach and AI adoption have paved the way for global expansion. Read more about how they got here and what's next...
https://t.co/tWcnoZrlal
Beaming up with the Lightspeed team at @mumbai_tech_ 🚀, connecting over shared visions and insights. Our Growth team is based in Mumbai, a burgeoning centre for tech and innovation. Great to see the ecosystem in full force at #MTW2024.
Hiring Alert 🚨
Attention SEO strategists and writers!
If you are looking to upskill yourself and stay relevant 5 years from now in the world of algorithmic blogging, AI-assisted SEO 2.0 & programmatic #SEO, this is the role for you.
Hiring 3 full-time AI SEO strategists this month.
This is not a role for freelancers.
If you are a copywriter looking to apply to this role, you should be open to learning more about how to use AI to increase your throughput while maintaining quality and also willing to be hands-on with keyword research, topic planning, etc.
If you are an SEO manager, you should be willing to develop a great sense of what is defined as a quality blog that adds value to the readers.
Key things to know about this role:
- Onsite in Bangalore.
- Pay starts at 7L to 12L INR based on experience.
- You should have at least 3 years of experience either as an SEO manager or as an SEO writer
- If interested, write to [email protected] with your portfolio.
When building a company, a thoughtful investor alongside you can drammatically improve your odds of success.
I can't emphasize this enough - @LightspeedIndia has been a phenomenal partner in our journey so far.
@rahultaneja and @romitme are amazing thought partners - never have I met investors with such high levels of first principles thinking.
We had an important investor pitch a few days back.
@rahultaneja got on a call with us at 2 in the morning after a long, long flight and patiently sat through a mock pitch for almost hour. His feedback was insanely detailed, almost all of which we incorporated right away.
We are a teeny tiny company in his portfolio and to get this kind of attention really blew us away.
I have been a VC associate myself and have been friends with several VC associates from most top tier funds across the globe. Barely any associate comes close to the insights and help I get from @romitme every time I meet him. He is often my first phone call when I want to bounce off a half-baked idea.
In addition, the support we constantly get from the finance and marketing teams at Lightspeed India is insane.
@mansichugh got our pre-seed funding announcement on @TechCrunch when Techcrunch rarely covers news of Indian startups raising sub $5M rounds.
Amit, their CFO, was pretty much our defacto finance head till he helped us hire the financial controller. All the technical rounds for our financial controller's candidates were taken by him.
To any fellow entrepreneur looking to raise capital, Lightspeed India should definitely be one of your top choices.