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Anoushka Vaswani

Investor

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

San Francisco Bay Area

Writes $3M – $20M checks · typically $15M

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About

Anoushka Vaswani is a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where she focuses on growth-stage application software and infrastructure investing and works with companies as they begin to scale. Before Lightspeed, she was an investor at Matrix, backing entrepreneurs raising their first rounds of funding. Earlier, she served as the third product manager at MasterClass, joining as the company grew from 50 to 80 employees. She began her career working with technology companies at Goldman and McKinsey, where she led McKinsey's first project with Facebook on the launch of internet.org. She holds a double major in Economics and Psychology from Columbia, where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and an MBA from Harvard.

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Beyond investing

Education
Studied at Columbia (Economics and Psychology) Studied at Harvard (MBA)

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Experience

  1. Lightspeed Venture PartnersPartnercurrent2019 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. Temporal TechnologiesInvestorcurrent2026 — present
  3. Fireworks AIBoardcurrent2025 — presentRedwood City, California, United States
  4. LightSourceBoardcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  5. SemgrepBoardcurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  6. RipplingInvestorcurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  7. FullviewInvestorcurrent2022 — presentCopenhagen Metropolitan Area
  8. 1PasswordBoardcurrent2022 — presentToronto, Ontario, Canada
  9. OsmosBoardcurrent2021 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  10. Vinted / KleiderkreiselInvestorcurrent2019 — present
  11. MasterClassProduct Manager2017San Francisco Bay Area
  12. Matrix PartnersInvestor2015 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
  13. McKinsey & CompanySenior Associate2013 — 2015San Francisco Bay Area
  14. Goldman SachsAnalyst2012 — 2013New York, NY

Skills & more

Strategy57Start-ups48Venture Capital39Entrepreneurship16Business Development16Product Management13Economics12Valuation13Data Analysis12Spanish6Product Development9Econometrics5
+5 moreEmerging MarketsMobile ApplicationsStrategic PartnershipsSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Mergers & Acquisitions

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Investments

Investor

1PasswordEnableFireworks aiFullviewLightsourceOsmosRipplingSemgrepTemporal TechnologiesVintedWorkOS

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Colleagues at Lightspeed Venture Partners

Network12

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Anoushka Vaswani?
Anoushka Vaswani is a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where she focuses on growth-stage application software and infrastructure investing and works with companies as they begin to scale. Before Lightspeed, she was an investor at Matrix, backing entrepreneurs raising their first rounds of funding. Earlier, she served as the third product manager at MasterClass, joining as the company grew from 50 to 80 employees. She began her career working with technology companies at Goldman and McKinsey, where she led McKinsey's first project with Facebook on the launch of internet.org. She holds a double major in Economics and Psychology from Columbia, where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and an MBA from Harvard.
Where does Anoushka Vaswani work?
Anoushka Vaswani is Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners.
What check size does Anoushka Vaswani write?
Anoushka Vaswani typically writes checks of $3M – $20M.
What companies has Anoushka Vaswani invested in?
Investments tracked here include 1Password, Enable, Fireworks ai, Fullview, Lightsource, Osmos, Rippling, Semgrep, Temporal Technologies, Vinted, WorkOS.
Where did Anoushka Vaswani go to school?
Anoushka Vaswani studied at Harvard Business School (Master of Business Administration - MBA); Columbia University (Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics - Behavioral Economics, Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude).

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