Anuvrat Jain (AJ)

Partner at Lightspeed | Growth/PE investments | India and APAC

📍 India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 18 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2026
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Jun 2026
At SolarSquare, we make going solar simple, reliable, and worry-free. Ranked No.1 home solar company on the National Solar Portal, we are Indias fastest growing residential solar company. We deliver end-to-end rooftop solar solutions — designed, installed, and managed by experts — so homeowners can switch to solar with complete confidence.
Founding Investor & Board Member
Mar 2026
People Home Finance Ltd. is a new-age Housing Finance Company (HFC) with focus on affordable home loan offerings to home buyers in lower and middle income groups. We’re committed to transform home loan solutions with an unique customer-centric approach that works with customers and for customers, an approach that leverages technology-driven processes to deliver superior and seamless experience. Essentially, we’re committed to partnering discerning, modern Indians in their home buying journey. With our presence in cities across the states of Andhra Pradesh, Delhi , Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra , Rajasthan, Telangana & Uttar Pradesh we strive to be a preferred home financing partner who you can trust, long after you have purchased your dream home. With decades of deep domain experience, our team of young but seasoned professionals are passionate about creating a transparent and superior home financing experience. One that adopts an omni-channel digital approach for faster disbursals and intimate, long-term customer engagement.
Investor/Board Member
Jul 2024
Founded in 2021 by Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra, Zepto is on a mission to save you time —making every second count towards lifes real joys. Our platform has revolutionised rapid commerce in India with cutting-edge technology and strategically optimised delivery hubs. Zepto offers an extensive range of 45,000+ products, from fresh groceries to electronics, beauty essentials, apparels, toys and more, delivering across 50+ cities in minutes* Zepto Café extends our commitment to convenience, featuring a curated menu of over 200 fresh items.
Investor
Oct 2023
Pocket FM is the world’s #1 audio series platform, redefining entertainment with AI + human creativity. With 200M+ listeners in 20+ countries, we are building the future of global storytelling.
Investor/Board Member
Jul 2023
Zluri is a comprehensive SaaS management platform designed to empower modern enterprises with full visibility and control over their SaaS applications, access, and costs. Our innovative solution enables IT and security teams to effortlessly discover 100% of Shadow IT, optimize cost, and govern all user access. With our patented AuthKnox engine, we establish a unified data fabric for SaaS, complemented by built-in iPaaS and workflow automation, delivering unparalleled control and efficiency.
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Jan 2023
Aspire is the all-in-one finance platform for modern businesses globally, helping over 50,000 companies save time and money with international payments, treasury, expense, payable, and receivable management solutions - accessible via a single, user-friendly account. Headquartered in Singapore, Aspire has 600+ employees across nine countries, clients in 30+ markets and is backed by global top tier VCs, including Sequoia, Lightspeed, Y-Combinator, Tencent and Paypal. In 2023, Aspire closed an oversubscribed US$100M Series C round and announced that it has achieved profitability.
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Sep 2022
Shipper is one of the fastest-growing tech company in Indonesia. In just few years, we have built a vast network of fulfilment centers and partnered with hundreds of local delivery companies across the country. We aim to digitize Indonesian logistics and enable cost-efficiencies at nationwide scale. Shipper is a Series B funded company backed by DST Global partners, Sequoia Capital India, Prosus Ventures, Floodgate, Lightspeed, Insignia Ventures, AC Ventures and Y Combinator.
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Mar 2022
Power your finance, grow your business. Razorpay is India’s first full-stack financial solutions company. We are on a mission to enhance the payment experience of over 300 million end consumers. And in doing so, we aim to enable Indian businesses - big and small - accept payments digitally with minimal effort and maximum ease. Razorpay has grown from being a payment gateway provider to a solutions-driven organization boasting of an extensive products suite to accept and disburse payments as well as raise capital and park money. In a nutshell, we fit into every nook and corner where your business touches money. #OutgrowOrdinary We identify ourselves as disruptors in the digital payments space and our vision is to power the financial ecosystem for other disruptors. Like attracts like and Razorpay actively looks to partner with established companies and startups that have either broken the glass ceiling in their industry or are set to. The Razorpay Product Suite today comprises verticals, along with Payment Gateway, like Payment Links, Payment Pages, Subscriptions, Smart Collect, Route, Razorpay Capital, RazorpayX, Payroll and Thirdwatch. Razorpay was started in 2014 by two IIT Roorkee alumni, Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar. Just a short few years later, Razorpay has evolved into a 800-odd strong organization with some of the best talents in the country helping some of the best companies manage their money movement seamlessly. Certified cool We are a bunch of spirited, ambitious and fun folks. And no, we’re not saying this ourselves--leading institutions have recognized Razorpay for the high trust and high-performance culture that we maintain. Our strength lies in the people we are and we go to great lengths to nurture a family of coders, designers, sellers, marketers, analysts, writers, runners, photographers, gamers, tinkerers, and above all, people who are dreamers and doers at the same time. Be a part of our exciting journey.
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Oct 2021
ACKO is the protection destination for over 200 million tech-savvy families across India, protecting their families, assets and money. Launched in 2016, we set out to solve real-world problems with technology, starting with insurance and in the process, we’ve meaningfully redefined the category. As a customer-first company, we believe insurance should be simple, fair and hassle-free. That’s why we pioneered the D2C model in India, empowering customers with zero commission, zero paperwork, instant renewals, same-day claim settlements and app-based claim updates. From auto and health insurance to embedded, bite-sized coverages, ACKO is built for the digital age, where protection is just a click away. Backed by top investors like General Atlantic, Multiples Private Equity, Accel, and Amazon, we’ve raised over $450 million, grown at 88% CAGR in four years, served 75+ million customers, and issued ~900 million policies. And we’re just getting started! Check us out at www.acko.com
Investor/Board Member
Sep 2021
Yubi Group is the world’s only AI-powered operating system (OS) for financial services, founded in 2020 by CEO Gaurav Kumar. At its core is YuVerse, an applied AI suite powering four specialized companies - Yubi, YuVerse, Accumn, Spocto X, and YuCollect - that together deliver end-to-end AI-based solutions in lending, underwriting, and collections. Backed by leading investors including Peak XV, Insight Partners, Lightspeed, B Capital Group, Dragoneer, and TVS Capital, Yubi has facilitated over ₹3.2 lakh crore in credit and 3.5 crore transactions, serving 17,000+ enterprises and 6,200+ investors & lenders while reducing collections costs by 57%. The company is redefining transparency, compliance, and performance across India’s financial services sector. Join us on this journey to #MakeGreatHappen.
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Sep 2019
Founded in 2015, with a vision of creating an ecosystem of inspirational workspaces, Awfis is India’s largest and fastest-growing #WorkspaceSolutions platform with over 88,000+ seats spread across 150 centres spanning 17 cities. Over the last few years, Awfis has evolved from being a coworking network to a fully tech-enabled workspace solutions platform that provides products across the spectrum of work requirements including Flex Workspaces, Enterprise Workspace Solution, Design & Build Solution (Awfis Transform), Integrated Facility Management (Awfis Care), Remote Working Solutions & Work From Home Solution (Awfis@Home). We currently operate in NCR, Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Indore, Chandigarh. For any job-related inquiry, please mail us at careers@awfis.com. Visit us at: www.awfis.com or download our App from: api.awfis.com/app.php
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2026
Investor
Jun 2026
At SolarSquare, we make going solar simple, reliable, and worry-free. Ranked No.1 home solar company on the National Solar Portal, we are Indias fastest growing residential solar company. We deliver end-to-end rooftop solar solutions — designed, installed, and managed by experts — so homeowners can switch to solar with complete confidence.
Founding Investor & Board Member
Mar 2026
People Home Finance Ltd. is a new-age Housing Finance Company (HFC) with focus on affordable home loan offerings to home buyers in lower and middle income groups. We’re committed to transform home loan solutions with an unique customer-centric approach that works with customers and for customers, an approach that leverages technology-driven processes to deliver superior and seamless experience. Essentially, we’re committed to partnering discerning, modern Indians in their home buying journey. With our presence in cities across the states of Andhra Pradesh, Delhi , Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra , Rajasthan, Telangana & Uttar Pradesh we strive to be a preferred home financing partner who you can trust, long after you have purchased your dream home. With decades of deep domain experience, our team of young but seasoned professionals are passionate about creating a transparent and superior home financing experience. One that adopts an omni-channel digital approach for faster disbursals and intimate, long-term customer engagement.
2025
Investors/Board Member
Jun 2025
Everyday life comes with many worries – in a world where time is at a premium, where life is becoming more and more nuclear, the challenges of managing anxieties get more and more difficult, hence necessary. Be it in areas relating to financial products, travel, household products, healthcare, gadgets etc. we would want to provide consumers the convenience of reaching out to one place, assisting them with products, services and secure solutions making their lives easier. OneAssist is founded with a vision to provide a ubiquitous platform for assistance & protection services to customers.
2024
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Jul 2024
Founded in 2021 by Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra, Zepto is on a mission to save you time —making every second count towards lifes real joys. Our platform has revolutionised rapid commerce in India with cutting-edge technology and strategically optimised delivery hubs. Zepto offers an extensive range of 45,000+ products, from fresh groceries to electronics, beauty essentials, apparels, toys and more, delivering across 50+ cities in minutes* Zepto Café extends our commitment to convenience, featuring a curated menu of over 200 fresh items.
2023
Investor
Oct 2023
Pocket FM is the world’s #1 audio series platform, redefining entertainment with AI + human creativity. With 200M+ listeners in 20+ countries, we are building the future of global storytelling.
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