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Materials Science Startup Whizzo Raises USD 15 Mn Series A Funding
The Series A round was led by Fundamentum, with LB Investment, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and BEENEXT participating.
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Composio Raises USD 25 Mn from Lightspeed to Advance Learning Infrastructure for AI Agents
Existing backers Elevation Capital and Together Fund also participated in the round, along with several notable angel investors. These include Gokul Rajaram, Rubrik cofounder Soham Mazumdar, Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot, and Guillermo Rauch of Vercel.
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Money Moves: Top Indian Startups That Raised Big This Week (May 31–June 06)
Diverse Sectors See Fresh Capital Inflows
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Udaan Raises USD 114 Mn in Series G Round Led by M&G and Lightspeed
The Bengaluru-based firm aims to deploy the fresh funds in expanding its presence in the FMCG and HoReCa (hotels, restaurants, and catering) sectors, boosting its private-label staples offerings, and strengthening its balance sheet to support its ongoing transformation.
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Three Investor Directors Exit GlobalBees Board Amid Leadership Changes
Representatives from Chiratae Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Premji Invest have stepped down from GlobalBees' board, according to the YourStory media sources.
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Tessell Raises USD 60 Mn Series B to Drive AI-Led Multi-Cloud Data Revolution
The capital will be used to accelerate Tessell's global go-to-market strategy and enhance R&D efforts focused on building AI-powered capabilities that simplify, optimise, and scale enterprise data management across cloud ecosystems.
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Udaan Raises USD 75 Mn in Series G Round
The funds will be utilised to enhance Udaan's customer experience, deepen market penetration, and strengthen strategic vendor partnerships.
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Lightspeed and Alpha Wave Lead USD 40 Mn Investment in Mstack to Transform Specialty Chemical Sourcing
With the raised funds, Mstack aims to boost R&D, expand global operations, scale leadership across sectors, and grow its talent base in the US, Middle East, South America, and Asia.
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Physics Wallah Raises USD 210 Mn in Series B, Boosting Valuation to USD 2.8 Bn
With this fresh round of funding, Physics Wallah plans to aggressively scale its operations. It also aims for inorganic expansion, entry into the K-12 segment, enhanced content offerings, and potential mergers with community-driven education platforms.
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Skild AI Raises USD 300 Mn in Series A Led by Lightspeed and Others
The funds will scale the company's model and training datasets for future commercial deployment of its technology, and expand hiring across AI, robotics, engineering, operations, and security.
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South Korean-Based Fintech Startup Travel Wallet Raises $10M From Lightspeed
Travel Wallet, a South Korea-based fintech company, has raised $10 million from Lightspeed, a global venture capital firm.
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Abhishek Nag and Vaibhav Agrawal Quit Lightspeed Venture Partners
Vaibhav Agrawal is going to start his own venture firm. To oversee early-stage investments, Abhishek Nag has joined Mumbai-based 360 One (previously IIFL Wealth & Asset Management).
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Lightspeed Raises Over 7 Billion To Fund Growth-Stage Entrepreneurs
The company claims that it currently manages $18 billion across the Lightspeed platform, with investment professionals and advisors in the US, China, Europe, India, Israel and Southeast Asia
By Teena Jose
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Lightspeed Venture Sets Up New Southeast Asia-focused Team to Scale Up Investments in the Region
Lightspeed will start operations in Singapore and deploy capital from its global fund of USD 4 billion, which was closed in April this year, to invest in the Southeast Asian market, with key focus on Indonesia and Singapore
By Shipra Singh
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Tech Firm Hasura Raises $25 Mn In Series B Round Led By LightSpeed Venture Partners
Hasura will utilize the fresh capital to accelerate its hiring and invest in its open source and commercial product development
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Lightspeed Closes Third India-focused Fund With $275 Mn
Fund III brings Lightspeed's total capital under management in India above USD 1 billion
By Shipra Singh
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This Fintech App Is Digitizing Book-keeping For Merchants
OkCredit enables digital recording of credit or payment transactions for small business owners and their customers through a mobile application