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Lightbox

Founders Sandeep Murthy Siddharth Talwar

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Total investments 56
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$22M
Portfolio companies 26
Rounds per year 5.60
Lead investments 21
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.50
Exits 4
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Food Processing
  • Mobile Apps
  • Food Delivery
  • Mobile
Summary

In 2014 was created Lightbox, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in India. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Mumbai.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - India. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Cleartrip, Nua, Flintobox Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, Internet.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Lightbox, startups are often financed by Sherpalo Ventures, Sequoia Capital India, Kleiner Perkins. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital India, Beenos Partners, BEENEXT. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital India, Digital Garage, BEENEXT.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this Lightbox works on 24 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The average startup value when the investment from Lightbox is 100-500 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 38 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The fund was created by sandeep murthy. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Generico

Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$25M26 Feb 2024 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Rooter

Content
Digital Entertainment
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Social Network
Sports
$24M12 Jan 2022 New Delhi, Delhi, India

Nua

Consumer
Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
$7M28 Jun 2021 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

WayCool

Agriculture
AgTech
Farming
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
$20M01 Apr 2021 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

InnerHour

Fitness
Health Care
Wellness
$5M04 Feb 2021 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Cityflo

Railroad
Rental
Transportation
$7M25 Nov 2020 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Flintobox

Children
E-Commerce
Shopping
$7M02 Jul 2020 India, Tamil Nadu

WayCool

Agriculture
AgTech
Farming
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
$35M07 Feb 2020 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

HaikuJAM

Apps
Collaboration
Digital Entertainment
Mobile Apps
Software
$3M11 Jan 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 56
Average round size 22M
Rounds per year 5.60
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 21
Follow on index 0.50
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.77

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Generico

Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$25M26 Feb 2024 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Rooter

Content
Digital Entertainment
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Social Network
Sports
$24M12 Jan 2022 New Delhi, Delhi, India

Nua

Consumer
Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
$7M28 Jun 2021 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

WayCool

Agriculture
AgTech
Farming
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
$20M01 Apr 2021 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

InnerHour

Fitness
Health Care
Wellness
$5M04 Feb 2021 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Cityflo

Railroad
Rental
Transportation
$7M25 Nov 2020 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Flintobox

Children
E-Commerce
Shopping
$7M02 Jul 2020 India, Tamil Nadu

WayCool

Agriculture
AgTech
Farming
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
$35M07 Feb 2020 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

HaikuJAM

Apps
Collaboration
Digital Entertainment
Mobile Apps
Software
$3M11 Jan 2020 London, England, United Kingdom
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