Companies funded by Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Grab· Singapore, Singapore
Grab is Southeast Asia’s leading superapp, offering a suite of services consisting of deliveries, mobility, financial services, enterprise and others. Grabbers come from all over the world, and we are united by a common mission: to drive Southeast Asia forward by creating economic empowerment for everyone.At Grab, every Grabber is guided by The Grab Way, which explains our mission and the operating principles on how we can achieve it together. We call these principles the 4Hs: HeartWe work together as OneGrab to serve communities in Southeast AsiaHungerWe work to understand ground truths and drive improvements, big and smallHonourWe keep our word and steward our resources wisely to build and sustain trustHumilityWe are a constant work-in-progress, and we never stop learning to get better
- Post-IPO debt
- 57.7k employees
- Founded 2012
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PW (PhysicsWallah)· I.A. Surajpur, Kulesra, Bisrakh, Uttar Pradesh, India
PhysicsWallah (PW), an Education company, was founded in 2020 by Alakh Pandey and Prateek Maheshwari. Headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, PW aims to democratize education through online, offline and hybrid platforms. Initially launched as a YouTube channel in 2014, PW now offers education to students through its YouTube channels in multiple vernacular languages. PW aims to create a hybrid education ecosystem in the country by establishing tech-enabled offline and hybrid centers in cities nationwide. PW’s offerings span various educational segments, including test preparation in multiple categories, a skilling vertical, higher education, and study abroad. Additionally, the company also has an Institute of Innovation (IOI) that provides residential job-ready programs. PW has raised funding from investors, including Hornbill Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Westbridge and GSV Ventures.
- Secondary
- 35.1k employees
- Founded 2016
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Firstsource· Malad West Dely, Orlem, Malad, Liberty Garden, Maharashtra, India
Firstsource Solutions Limited, an RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group company, is a global intelligence partner to enterprises across healthcare, banking and financial services, communications, media, technology, retail, and utilities.We combine more than 25 years of domain expertise with an agent-first delivery model to design, build, and operate intelligent enterprise operations.Our inch-wide, mile-deep practitioners work collaboratively to reimagine business process management. This is our Intelligence That Operates promise, powered by Kairos, the operating system that makes it real.We unify consulting, implementation, and operations into a single full-stack engagement and underwrite outcomes, not effort, turning deep domain intelligence into a compounding operational advantage for the world's most regulated industries.Our Firstsourcers are driven to Make It Happen for more than 200 leading global brands, including several Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies, across operations in the US, UK, India, Philippines, Mexico, Romania, Trinidad & Tobago, South Africa, and Australia.
- Series unknown
- 24.9k employees
- Founded 2001
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Zepto· India, India
Founded in 2021 by Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra, Zepto is on a mission to save you time —making every second count towards life's real joys. Our platform has revolutionised rapid commerce in India with cutting-edge technology and strategically optimised delivery hubs. Zepto offers an extensive range of 45,000+ products, from fresh groceries to electronics, beauty essentials, apparels, toys and more, delivering across 50+ cities in minutes*Zepto Café extends our commitment to convenience, featuring a curated menu of over 200 fresh items.
- Series H
- 20.1k employees
- Founded 2021
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BYJU'S· Dharmaram College, Tavarekere, Karnātaka, India
BYJU’S is a global ed-tech company, providing highly adaptive, engaging and effective learning solutions to more than 150 million students around the world. Founded in India in 2011, BYJU’S mission is to make high-quality learning accessible to students everywhere.The BYJU’S family of brands includes Disney-BYJU’S Early Learn, BYJU’S Future School, Epic!, Osmo, Tynker, Toppr and WhiteHat Jr, along with our beloved flagship product BYJU’S – The Learning App. Together, BYJU’S solutions support Pre-K – 12 education and a wide range of competitive exams. BYJU’S delivers a world-class learning experience with tools that sit at the cross-section of mobile, interactive content and personalized learning methodologies. BYJU’S geography-agnostic solutions and 12,000+ teachers make learning engaging, with visual and contextual programs that adapt to the unique learning style, skill level and pace of each student. In addition, we have innovative partnerships with some of the world’s leading companies, including Disney and Google, to drive engagement and help even more students become active and lifelong learners. BYJU’S is backed by blue-chip investors including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Sequoia Capital, Bond Capital, Silver Lake, BlackRock, Sands Capital Management, Alkeon Capital Management, Sofina, Verlinvest, Tencent, Prosus (previously Naspers Ventures), CPPIB, General Atlantic, Tiger Global, Qatar Investment Authority, Owl Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Times Internet, Aarin Capital and IFC. Since 2017, we have completed more than 15 acquisitions, including companies in the U.S., UK, Austria, India and Singapore. A 2021 Time 100 Most Influential Company, BYJU’S is headquartered in India, with operations in more than 21 countries globally and learning programs in multiple languages. For additional information, please visit www.byjus.com.
- Private equity
- 19.1k employees
- Founded 2011

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Stripe· South San Francisco, California, United States
Stripe builds programmable financial services. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, the company aims to increase the GDP of the internet.
- Secondary
- 17.1k employees
- Founded 2010
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Databricks· San Francisco, California, United States
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. ---Databricks applicantsPlease apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).
- Private equity
- 15.5k employees
- Founded 2013
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OYO· Gurgaon Kty., Khandsa Road, Urban Estate (Gurgaon), Arjun Nagar, Gurgaon H.O, Gurgaon South City I, New Colony (Gurgaon), Gurgaon Sector 17, Mini Sectt., Basai Road, Shivaji Nagar (Gurgaon), Haryana, India
OYO is a global platform that aims to empower entrepreneurs and small businesses with hotels and homes by providing full-stack technology products and services that aims to increase revenue and ease operations; bringing easy-to-book, affordable, and trusted accommodation to customers around the world. OYO offers 40+ integrated products and solutions to patrons who operate over 157K hotel and home storefronts in more than 35 countries including India, Europe, and Southeast Asia.OYO was founded by 27-year-old Ritesh Agarwal, the first Asian resident to be accepted to the Thiel Fellowship (started by Paypal founder Peter Thiel).OYO operates a unique business model that helps its patrons transform fragmented, unbranded and underutilized hospitality assets into branded, digitally-enabled storefronts with higher revenue generation potential and provides its customers with access to a broad range of high-quality storefronts at compelling price points. Owners and operators of over 157K storefronts use the OYO platform to manage all mission-critical aspects of their business operations. OYO’s comprehensive, full-stack technology suite integrates more than 40 products and services across digital sign-up and onboarding, revenue management, daily business management and D2C stacks into two flagship patron applications, Co-OYO and OYO OS. OYO customers can book storefronts through OYO’s own D2C channels and through indirect channels with third-party OTAs. The OYO App offers a variety of digital tools to guide customers throughout their journey, including discovery, seamless booking, pre-stay assistance, cancellations, digital check-ins as well as in-stay and post-stay services. With over 100 mn downloads, the OYO App was the 3rd most downloaded travel app in 2020. OYO Wizard, OYO’s loyalty program, has 9.2 million members and is the second largest loyalty program run by a travel or food brand in India, by subscriber base.
- Series unknown
- 15.4k employees
- Founded 2012
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Epic Games· Cary, North Carolina, United States
Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.
- Series unknown
- 12k employees
- Founded 1991
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BetterUp· Austin, Texas, United States
At BetterUp, we’re bringing the power of human transformation to individuals and workforces everywhere. Our mission? To help people everywhere pursue their lives with greater clarity, purpose, and passion.The BetterUp experience brings together world-class coaching, AI technology, and behavioral science experts to deliver change at scale — improving personal and organizational resilience, adaptability, well-being, and productivity. The results? Individual transformation meets organizational growth. Our proven effectiveness creates positive change for your business and your people. Using our proprietary algorithm and research, we create hyper-personalized experiences that motivate and inspire your people. Watch your organization transform with real-time data analytics and unparalleled human insights that create critical awareness into your workforce and demonstrate measurable results across 25 key leadership dimensions.Our platform is transformative. So is our employee experience.Here's what our employees say based on a survey issued by the Great Place to Work Institute: 90% say it's a great place to work. 97% willingly give extra to get the job done. 96% are proud of our community impact. 96% are proud to say they work at BetterUp. BetterUp is a FORTUNE Best Workplace in Tech, Best Workplace for Millennials, Best Workplace for Women and more. We've been featured on Inc.'s Best Workplaces list, the FORTUNE Impact 20, Inc. 5000, TechNational Top 100 Companies to Work For, Built In Best Places to Work, Kudos Best Culture Award, Digiday WorkLife50 List, PEOPLE Magazine Companies That Care, Military Friendly Employer List and Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators.Interested in joining our team? See open positions: https://www.betterup.com/about-us/careers
- Series unknown
- 11.9k employees
- Founded 2013

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