On this episode of the RISE Offstage podcast, host Casey Lau welcomes Akshay Bhushan, a Partner at Lightspeed who is leading the firm’s Southeast Asia investments, focusing on consumer tech investing across both Southeast Asia and India and in companies like Sharechat, Chilibeli, Grab and more. 

Akshay talks about how the pandemic has helped them to deploy more capital, which are the big Asian markets Lightspeed is looking at and the next group of exciting verticals they are looking into like The Passion Economy and empowering SME’s in Asia to more efficiently run their businesses using technology.

This is a fascinating chat discovering what Lightspeed is looking at in terms of startup investments across Asia and their big bets on India, Indonesia and Vietnam.

To get a warm intro to Akshay please reach out to Casey on Twitter.


SHOW NOTES

Akshay Bhushan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshaybhushan/

Lightspeed Venture Partners: https://lsvp.com/portfolio/

Sharechat: https://sharechat.com/

Chilibeli: https://www.chilibeli.com/

Grab: https://www.grab.com/

The Passion Economy: https://www.passioneconomy.xyz/

SME Market in Southeast Asia via EY 2019: https://assets.ey.com/content/dam/ey-sites/ey-com/en_sg/topics/growth/ey-smes-in-southeast-asia-redesigning-for-the-digital-economy.pdf

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