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What an incredible gathering of awesome founders! We had over 300+ RSVPs but unfortunately could only get 50 in this time to not attract BLR riot police ;-) The group was so large that (1) two people had the exact same jacket on - no they aren't friends, and see if you can spot

Expect this trend to reverse in favour of consumer companies once again. The predictability of SaaS business models, combined with high gross margins, led to the emergence of way too many enterprise software companies. Won't be surprised to see a lot of logo churn (for these cos)

**SaaSBoomi / CHENNAI founders** -- Lightspeed is hosting one of our famous founder breakfast on 8th March 7:30AM onwards exclusively for SaaSBoomi attendees! Come meet us before the madness starts, and network with VCs, founders and operators! Just DM with your **email & company

As partners of SaaSBoomi, our entire enterprise team is in Chennai and we look forward to meeting many of you over the next two days. Say hi, if you’re around! Lightspeed platform invested $300M+ last year across early, growth and the existing portfolio in India and SEA with

Fantastic to have Khadim Dheeraj Pandey Srikrishnan Ganesan #ashwinrajeeva talking about category creation and category leadership at Lightspeed India SaaS breakfast on the sidelines of SaaSBoomi Annual. Whatfix Nutanix Inc. Acceldata Rocketlane

Full house at the Lightspeed India mixer with my friend Nitin Rao, CPO Cloudflare (who happens to be a BLR boy!) now doing some amazing things in the world of cloud and genAI globally. Have known Nitin since his early years at cloudflare and it's incredible to see him lead a

**BLR** Cubbon walk THIS weekend - Sat 7:30AM 15th Jun - back by popular demand! If you are a founder, this is one of the best ways to meet other founders / operators, have a casual walk + chat, & finish with a delicious breakfast sponsored by team Lightspeed India! DM for

** new market-map drop ** We are pumped to release v1.0 of Lightspeed's India & SEA Frontier tech market map spanning Defense tech, Climate, Robotics, AI infra, Space & more! See shorturl.at/8anWM for the full blog & what we are looking to invest actively behind: 🧵

The advance of LLMs and other AI tools is a rare opportunity to radically upend the way we talk and think about software development, and change our industry for the better. The way we have traditionally talked about software centers on writing code, solving technical problems.

This hits hard (Munger, found by David Senra)

One of the things we hear often about AI is how it’ll bring a productivity surge to society and have a deflationary impact on GDP. Technical revolutions, over a long enough horizon, do tend to make societies better off economically but we wanted to go deeper into what is the

** SFBA AI Researchers ** Our portfolio co Sarvam AI is kicking off our bay area research team with Sarvam Labs 🧪🤖! We will host a meet & greet for ML/AI/DL PhD and MS grads & early to mid career AI experts on March 18, Tue 6-9pm PST in Menlo Park. Meet fellow researchers,

3 Years Back- Started Stimuler- AI Speech Coach in IIT BHU hostel w/ best friends to solve English fluency Today- Announcing $3.75Mn raise by Lightspeed, SWC, MVP & others to build a population scale consumer product from 🇮🇳 that the entire 🌎 admires for decades to come THIS IS OUR STORY!!

We are thrilled to welcome Yvonne Wassenar (Yvonne Wassenaar) to Lightspeed's Venture Partner team today. Yvonne brings a rare combination of operating excellence and boardroom leadership, as ex-CEO at Puppet and Airware, and as a board member at Arista Networks, Rubrik, JFrog, Braze,