Dev Khare

Partner at Lightspeed | Backing founders building between India & the world | AI Services, Healthcare AI, AI for the next billion

📍 New Delhi, Delhi, India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 26 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Operator-angel🌍 India20+ investments
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Feb 2025
We offer AI agents that help drive business decisions with unparalleled speed and precision. Our close-knit team comprises of former strategy consultants and investors, computer scientists, econometricians, and software engineers. We are always looking for polymaths with a history of building something (anything!) to join us. Message any one of us to learn more about opportunities to collaborate.
Investor
Jan 2025
Coral is a healthcare platform designed to help providers run smarter, faster, and more autonomously. By leveraging AI-driven automation and agentic workflows, Coral integrates with existing healthcare systems to automate complex tasks across patient intake, prior authorization, billing, compliance and patient outreach. Coral reduces human error, accelerates care delivery, and frees up healthcare staff to focus on areas where judgment and empathy matter most.
Investor
Sep 2024
PhysicsWallah (PW), an Education company, was founded in 2020 by Alakh Pandey and Prateek Maheshwari. Headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, PW aims to democratize education through online, offline and hybrid platforms. Initially launched as a YouTube channel in 2014, PW now offers education to students through its YouTube channels in multiple vernacular languages. PW aims to create a hybrid education ecosystem in the country by establishing tech-enabled offline and hybrid centers in cities nationwide. PW’s offerings span various educational segments, including test preparation in multiple categories, a skilling vertical, higher education, and study abroad. Additionally, the company also has an Institute of Innovation (IOI) that provides residential job-ready programs. PW has raised funding from investors, including Hornbill Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Westbridge and GSV Ventures. 
late stageEducation
Board Member
Sep 2024
Qure.ai is a health tech company that uses deep learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make healthcare more accessible and equitable for patients worldwide. Our solutions power the efficient identification and management of Tuberculosis (TB), Lung Cancer and Stroke to support clinicians and propel developments in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. We empower healthcare by helping to identify conditions fast, prioritize treatment planning and ultimately improve the quality of patient life.
late stageMedical Device
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
Aug 2023
AI Gateway, Guardrails, and Governance. Processing 14 Billion+ LLM tokens every day. Backed by Lightspeed.
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.
Investor
Dec 2022
Triomics is a generative AI platform purpose-built for oncology workflows. We help leading academic and community cancer centers in the U.S. transform unstructured medical-record data into point-of-care insights, including screening patients for trials, powering pre-charting, and curating clinical data.
Investor
Sep 2022
At Unstract, we harness the power of AI to automate critical business processes involving unstructured documents, propelling businesses towards digital transformation. Our cutting-edge open source platform leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to provide scalable solutions in document automation without the need for coding. Through features like LLMWhisperer and LLMChallenge, we ensure maintaining high standards of accuracy and reliability. Our advanced capabilities allow for direct extraction from any complex documents, regardless of their formats and layouts, without the need for any training. Our platform caters to a diverse range of industries, from finance to insurance, enhancing operational efficiency by transforming complex documents into structured, actionable data. Unstracts automation capabilities extend from simple data extraction to full-scale integration with business ecosystems, facilitating seamless data flows and informed decision-making. Our open-source, no-code platform uses advanced AI to automate document processing, surpassing traditional IDP (Intelligent Document Processing) and RPA (Robotic Process Automation) limits. We invite you to join the future of unstructured data processing with Unstract. Experience firsthand how our technology can revolutionize your document workflows and contribute to substantial productivity gains. Connect with us for a demonstration of our capabilities and to discuss how we can support your specific needs. Unstract is backed by Lightspeed and Together Fund.
Investor
Sep 2022
Zipstack brings you the powers of a modern data stack by enabling your teams with Data Virtualization and Data Products. With a centralized interface, data users can integrate with 150+ connectors to a wide variety of data sources and applications and easily connect data spanning different formats to create a single source of truth for analytics, machine learning, management and governance purposes.
Investor
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.
Investor
Feb 2022
Governance, Risk, and Compliance simplified for new-age businesses.
Board Member
Oct 2021
Geniebook is a powerful suite of online learning products including AI-personalised worksheets (GenieSmart), live online classes (GenieClass), and real-time teacher chats (GenieAsk) to help primary and secondary school students learn smarter and do better. Geniebook was founded in 2017 by experienced educators, tech wizards, and designers who have spent over 10 years teaching and pioneering programs to help students improve. We firmly believe that education is personal, and that students should have access to a personalised world-class education that brings together the best of technology and learning pedagogies, to help them grow into confident learners and contributors to society. Today, Geniebook is a fast growing EdTech company backed by East Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Apricot Capital and prominent angel investors. Geniebook is also Singapore’s largest online learning platform for English, Mathematics, and Science (EMS) syllabi, with Chinese being our latest subject offer. A familiar name with a diverse team serving more than 220,000 users regionally, Geniebook is present in Singapore (our headquarters), Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Geniebook - Learn Smarter. Do Better. #Geniebook #LearnSmarterDoBetter #OnlineLearning #EdTech #WeAreHiring
Investor
Sep 2021
Lio is the one app for all your data where you can create, keep records and track all the records. Our vision is to empower people to run their business smartly, we want to enable them to efficiently organize their business on their mobile phones via simple and intuitive solutions. Available in 10 + languages, with 100+ templates and 45 lac+ users, it is an easy-to-use innovative, powerful and dynamic mobile application that helps you organize your data and make meaningful decisions.
Board Member
Sep 2020
Pepper is an AI-powered content marketing platform with an expert-led talent marketplace. Leverage the platform to ideate, create, manage, distribute and measure your content marketing, under one roof.
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2025
Investor
Feb 2025
We offer AI agents that help drive business decisions with unparalleled speed and precision. Our close-knit team comprises of former strategy consultants and investors, computer scientists, econometricians, and software engineers. We are always looking for polymaths with a history of building something (anything!) to join us. Message any one of us to learn more about opportunities to collaborate.
Investor
Jan 2025
Coral is a healthcare platform designed to help providers run smarter, faster, and more autonomously. By leveraging AI-driven automation and agentic workflows, Coral integrates with existing healthcare systems to automate complex tasks across patient intake, prior authorization, billing, compliance and patient outreach. Coral reduces human error, accelerates care delivery, and frees up healthcare staff to focus on areas where judgment and empathy matter most.
2024
Investor
Sep 2024
PhysicsWallah (PW), an Education company, was founded in 2020 by Alakh Pandey and Prateek Maheshwari. Headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, PW aims to democratize education through online, offline and hybrid platforms. Initially launched as a YouTube channel in 2014, PW now offers education to students through its YouTube channels in multiple vernacular languages. PW aims to create a hybrid education ecosystem in the country by establishing tech-enabled offline and hybrid centers in cities nationwide. PW’s offerings span various educational segments, including test preparation in multiple categories, a skilling vertical, higher education, and study abroad. Additionally, the company also has an Institute of Innovation (IOI) that provides residential job-ready programs. PW has raised funding from investors, including Hornbill Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Westbridge and GSV Ventures. 
late stageEducation
Board Member
Sep 2024
Qure.ai is a health tech company that uses deep learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make healthcare more accessible and equitable for patients worldwide. Our solutions power the efficient identification and management of Tuberculosis (TB), Lung Cancer and Stroke to support clinicians and propel developments in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. We empower healthcare by helping to identify conditions fast, prioritize treatment planning and ultimately improve the quality of patient life.
late stageMedical Device
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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