Where does Dev Khare work?

Dev Khare is Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and Board director at Altana.

What does Dev Khare invest in?

Dev Khare invests in Consumer, Enterprise Software.

What boards does Dev Khare sit on?

Dev Khare holds tracked board seats at Altana, Inrix, Redbeacon, Slideshare.

Where did Dev Khare go to school?

Dev Khare studied at Harvard Business School (MBA, Business Administration and Management); The Wharton School (BS, Economics (Finance)); University of Pennsylvania (BS, Computer Science & Engineering).

Dev Khare

Investor

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners · Partner at Lightspeed India Partners · Board director at Altana

About

Dev Khare is a partner at Lightspeed who joined in 2011, focusing on consumer and enterprise companies with low-friction, software-based models. Before Lightspeed he was a VP at Venrock and previously founded Covigo, a mobile app developer platform later sold to Symbol Technologies; he holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Contact· published on Dev's own website

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Likely emails· guessed from name + firm domain, not firm-published

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Invests in

ConsumerEnterprise Software

Board director at Altana

Intro paths

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In turn, Dev can intro founders to Altana's investors below.

Altana's investors · 28

8VCAustin · $100K – $50M checks 9Yards CapitalNew York · $100K – $10M checks ACTivate CapitalCanberra ACTIVATE CAPITAL PARTNERSSan Francisco · $10M – $30M checks Amadeus Capital PartnersLondon · $50K – $12.7M checks Ballistic VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $5M checks Charlie Songhurst Drive CapitalColumbus · $5M – $30M checks Element Partners EMERGENT VENTURESSilicon Valley Felicis VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $15M checks Focal VenturesMiami · $250K – $750K checks General CatalystSan Francisco · $30M checks Generation Investment ManagementLondon GV (Google Ventures)Mountain View · $250K – $50M checks Harmonix FundLa Quinta In-Q-TelTysons · $100K – $2.5M checks Insight PartnersNew York · $120M – $350M checks Intel CapitalSanta Clara · $1M – $20M checks Khosla VenturesMenlo Park · $5K – $50M checks Lightspeed Venture PartnersMenlo Park · $1.7M – $87M checks · since 2018 Madrona Venture GroupSeattle · $2M – $10M checks March Capital PartnersSanta Monica MatrixSan Francisco · $100K – $10M checks Prosperity7 VenturesDhahran Salesforce VenturesSan Francisco · $5M – $50M checks Schematic VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $2M checks Sorenson VenturesLehi · since 2021

Co-founders at Altana

Rohit ChoudharyExecutive Officer, Director

Ashwin RajeevaExecutive Officer, Director

Satish KrishnamurthyExecutive Officer, Director

Maram NagendraprasadExecutive Officer, Director

Gaurav NagarFounder

Experience

Lightspeed IndiaPartnercurrent2011 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
Bridgetown ResearchInvestorcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
CoralInvestorcurrent2025 — presentNew York, New York, United States
PW (PhysicsWallah)Investorcurrent2024 — presentNoida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Qure.aiBoard Membercurrent2024 — presentMumbai, Maharashtra, India
ZluriBoard Membercurrent2023 — presentBengaluru, Karnataka, India
TriomicsBoard Membercurrent2022 — presentNew York, NY
UnstractInvestorcurrent2022 — presentChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
RazorpayInvestorcurrent2022 — presentBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Scrut AutomationBoard Membercurrent2022 — presentBengaluru, Karnataka, India
GeniebookBoard Membercurrent2021 — presentSingapore, Singapore
Pepper ContentBoard Membercurrent2020 — presentMumbai, Maharashtra, India
Yellow.aiBoard Membercurrent2019 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
AcceldataBoard Membercurrent2018 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
Pocket FMInvestorcurrent2018 — presentBengaluru
DarwinboxBoard Membercurrent2017 — presentHyderabad, Telangana, India
ShareChatBoard Membercurrent2016 — presentBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Portkey.aiInvestor2023 — 2026Bengaluru
InnovaccerInvestor2016 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
RevvSales Inc.Board Member2018 — 2022Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
VenrockVice President2006 — 2011Palo Alto, California, United States
Symbol TechnologiesDirector of Producting Marketing2003 — 2004San Jose, CA
CovigoFounder and VP, Products2000 — 2003Menlo Park, CA
CrossWorlds SoftwareProduct Manager1998 — 2000Burlingame, CA
DLJ Merchant BankingSummer Associate1997Bengaluru Area, India
Aditi TechnologiesProduct Manager, eCRM1997Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Donaldson, Lufkin & JenretteInvestment Banking Analyst1995 — 1996Greater Los Angeles Area
Jefferies & CompanyInvestment Banking Analyst1994 — 1995Greater Los Angeles Area

Skills & more

Languages English · Hindi

From Dev's professional profile.

Deals · 1

AltanaBoard seat

via Lightspeed Venture Partners · filed Nov 2018 · $2.1M raise

Attribution from SEC filings, press coverage, and firm rosters.

Other disclosed investments

Board seats

InrixRedbeaconSlideshare

Sources: SEC Form D filings · the firm's website.

Colleagues at Lightspeed Venture Partners

Alexander Schmitt

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

Amber Yang

Investor at Bloomberg Beta

Anand Iyer

Investor and founder in San Francisco

Anoushka Vaswani

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

Antoine Moyroud

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

Arif Janmohamed

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

Banafsheh Fathieh

General Partner at Faction

Barry Eggers

Co-Founder, Lightspeed at Giant Ventures Global Llp

Network8

Ankur NagpalScout

Founder at Vibe Capital

Ashish GuptaScout

Chairman and Partner at MFV Partners

Dheeraj PandeyScout

Investor at DevRev

Gokul RajaramScout

DoorDash, Coinbase, Square at Good AI Capital

Anant Vidur Puri

Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners

Brandon Gleklen

Principal at Battery Ventures

Jishnu Bhattacharjee

Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners

Subrata Mitra

Partner at Accel

Investors connected to Dev in public investor directories — a warm-intro map.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Dev Khare?: Dev Khare is a partner at Lightspeed who joined in 2011, focusing on consumer and enterprise companies with low-friction, software-based models. Before Lightspeed he was a VP at Venrock and previously founded Covigo, a mobile app developer platform later sold to Symbol Technologies; he holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Where does Dev Khare work?: Dev Khare is Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and Board director at Altana.
What does Dev Khare invest in?: Dev Khare invests in Consumer, Enterprise Software.
What boards does Dev Khare sit on?: Dev Khare holds tracked board seats at Altana, Inrix, Redbeacon, Slideshare.
Where did Dev Khare go to school?: Dev Khare studied at Harvard Business School (MBA, Business Administration and Management); The Wharton School (BS, Economics (Finance)); University of Pennsylvania (BS, Computer Science & Engineering).