Lightspeed India appoints ex-Google exec as vice president

VC firm Lightspeed India has appointed Manjot Pahwa, a former Stripe and Google executive, as the company’s vice president.

Manjot Pahwa, Lightspeed India vice president / Photo credit: Manjot Pahwa

Pahwa will focus on companies that operate across developer, enterprise, and consumer markets in India and Southeast Asia, the VC firm stated.

Pahwa has previously headed fintech firm Stripe’s India operations. She has also worked as a software engineer at Google, where she led core infrastructure teams and scaled Google Photos. She served as the product manager for Google’s Kubernetes and network security teams.

“Manjot has a stellar track record including time spent working in the heart of Silicon Valley,” said Dev Khare, partner at Lightspeed India. “Manjot has moved from core infrastructure to high-scale consumer applications to developer tools to payments during her career.”

Lightspeed focuses on the enterprise, consumer, and health sectors. Since 2000, it has backed companies like Snap, Affirm, AppDynamics, Oyo, Nutanix, Byju’s, and Udaan.

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Currently, Lightspeed and its affiliates manage more than US$10 billion in funds globally, and has investment professionals and advisors in India, Silicon Valley, Israel, China, Southeast Asia and Europe.

The VC firm recently backed IndiGG, the sub-decentralized autonomous organization of Yield Guild Games based in India, in a US$6 million round.