Lightbox (lbvc.eth)

Lightbox Ventures is an Indian early- and growth-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (with additional office in Bangalore / Bengaluru), founded in 2014 by Founding General Partners Sandeep Murthy (previously at Clearstone Venture Partners India and Sherpalo Ventures; one of India's most experienced VCs) and Sid Talwar (a serial entrepreneur; co-founder of multiple India-market businesses), investing in early- and growth-stage consumer-facing Indian technology companies across retail and e-commerce, software / SaaS, consumer internet, financial services, and tech-enabled consumer-services themes. Lightbox typically writes initial check sizes in the USD 2 to 10 million range at Series A and Series B stages as a conviction lead investor. The firm has raised multiple institutional funds (Lightbox I, Lightbox II, Lightbox III, Lightbox IV) with aggregate AUM in the USD low-to-mid hundreds of millions range. Notable portfolio companies include Droom, Furlenco, Melorra, Cashify, ShopX, WaterBridge, and other Indian consumer-and-technology companies.