Lightspeed Venture Partners
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm based in Menlo Park that funds early-stage and growth-stage companies across consumer, enterprise technology, fintech, cleantech, healthtech, and software sectors. The firm backs startups from seed through expansion rounds, providing capital and strategic guidance to help entrepreneurs scale. It operates internationally with offices in the United States, China, India, and Israel, and has a history of investing in software, mobile, data, internet, and technology-enabled services. Lightspeed emphasizes identifying emerging trends, supporting talented teams, and pursuing opportunities in areas such as enterprise infrastructure, digital platforms, and consumer technologies. The firm seeks to partner with ambitious founders to accelerate product development, go-to-market execution, and global growth.
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Wheelocity
Series A in 2024
Wheelocity is an Indian supply chain network that aims to reduce malnutrition by minimizing food waste through technology-enabled fresh-commerce networks. It operates an integrated ecosystem of collection centers, distribution centers, dark stores, and first- and mid-mile logistics to move fresh produce such as fruits, vegetables, dairy, poultry, and meat efficiently. By leveraging AI and IoT, Wheelocity enhances transparency, efficiency, and inventory control across its nationwide network, delivering faster, more reliable access from farm to plate. Founded in 2021, the company seeks to reshape India’s fresh produce market with an innovative, tech-powered approach to supply chains, ultimately lowering costs, preserving quality, and reducing waste.
Wheelocity
Series A in 2022
Wheelocity is an Indian supply chain network that aims to reduce malnutrition by minimizing food waste through technology-enabled fresh-commerce networks. It operates an integrated ecosystem of collection centers, distribution centers, dark stores, and first- and mid-mile logistics to move fresh produce such as fruits, vegetables, dairy, poultry, and meat efficiently. By leveraging AI and IoT, Wheelocity enhances transparency, efficiency, and inventory control across its nationwide network, delivering faster, more reliable access from farm to plate. Founded in 2021, the company seeks to reshape India’s fresh produce market with an innovative, tech-powered approach to supply chains, ultimately lowering costs, preserving quality, and reducing waste.
Bijak
Seed Round in 2019
Bijak operates a B2B trade platform for India's agricultural sector. It connects traders, wholesalers, and food processors, offering transparent pricing, optimized logistics, and improved working capital cycles through digital transaction ledgers.
iPlas
Series A in 2015
iPlas is a leading industry-wide e-commerce platform for chemical engineering, rubber and plastics. They currently through geometrical growth.
The platform’s profit-making business model of the commodity plastic market have been verified, i.e. through expanding endusers scale to realize rapid increases in profits; in the future, the platform will extend its business and reach into the speciality plastic market with up gross profit margin.
Currently, number of purchaser users registered on iPlas platform has quickly increased to over tens of thousands. Meanwhile, iPlas is currently the only chemical engineering, rubber and plastic B2B e-commerce platform in China that carries out self-support businesses in a large scale.
ChemConnect
Private Equity Round in 2000
ChemConnect, Inc. functions as an electronic exchange specializing in the trading of midstream energy, feedstocks, chemicals, and related products. Established in 1995 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, the company provides a platform for the trading of natural gas liquids, refined fuels, aromatics, olefins, and commodity polymers. In addition to its exchange services, ChemConnect offers auction services, bulletin-board functionality, back-end fulfillment solutions, and market information resources. The company also delivers supply chain solutions, which include negotiation tools and collaboration hubs, facilitating efficient transactions for its clients. ChemConnect has operational reach in North America, the United Kingdom, and Belgium.
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