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Anoushka Vaswani

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Anoushka Vaswani is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in investing in Series B stage companies in sectors such as SMB Software, FinTech, and Consumer Internet. With an MBA from Harvard Business School and a background in product management, Anoushka has successfully invested in notable companies like Fullview and served on the boards of 1Password and Osmos.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2019 - Current

    Lightspeed Venture Partners is a $6B venture fund with offices in the Bay Area, India, Israel and China. Over the past two decades, the Lightspeed team has backed and helped build more than 300 companies globally, many of which have become market leaders, including Nutanix, Guardant, AppDynamics, MuleSoft, Snapchat, Nest and zScaler.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.

  • Investor

    2023

Rippling is the workforce management platform that unifies HR, IT, finance, and more.

Raised $1,987,000,000.00 from Dragoneer Investment Group, Coatue, Greenoaks, Founders Fund and Bossa Invest.

  • Investor & Board

    2023

Profoundly improving software security and reliability

Raised $93,000,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Redpoint and Felicis.

  • Investor

    2022

Enable is a startup developing a cloud-based software tool for business-to-business rebate management.

Raised $276,000,000.00 from Gaingels.

  • Investor

    2022

  • Investor & Board

    2022

  • Investor & Board

    2021

  • Product Manager

    2017 - 2017

    MasterClass is a startup offering online classes from the world's best. Joined as the third PM on the team. Launched an interactive player for the Herbie Hancock class and re-evaluated our existing class launch and sign-up process.

MasterClass is a provider of an online education platform designed to offer video based vocational courses.

Raised $461,400,000.00 from Vershina Capital and Bracket Capital.

  • Investor

    2015 - 2017

    Matrix Partners is a leading venture capital firm committed to building long-term relationships with outstanding entrepreneurs. Matrix Partners has been fortunate to play a role in the development of many successful businesses which include Apple, SanDisk, Oculus VR, HubSpot, Zendesk, Care.com, Ambarella and many others.

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