#20 - Lightspeed India
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Alright. Hamath, welcome to the Never Say podcast. So, you're gonna introduce yourself. You're at Lightspeed. We work here at a six week. Go ahead.
Yeah. Thank you for having me. Been looking forward to this for a long time, Balaji. Yes. So for the folks that don't know me, I'm Eavanth. I'm with Malpatra. I'm all the partners at Lightspeed. Lightspeed is a global intercapital firm that invests across different regions. Basically, we are aware of our partnership is. And
India is, like, 1.8 bill, something like that. India,
I got to manage about 1.5 to 1.8 bill. And then after a little very early stage focus, you also have a go from there. Presence in, China, presence in New York, presence in The US. And, apparently, we don't have an officer team. We certainly have investments like United America and African venues. Yeah. And then before Lightspeed, I was at SMC with MHU. And then I was like, yeah. I've known you for maybe seven, eight years before that even. Oh, okay. Which is a fun story that I don't think you would remember. Ago. I
don't know. So
before SMC, I was at Google. Yes. And I was part of this small team of people led by a guy named David Glaser, a genius little guy, who was trying to who kind of saw the wave of, or his thesis was that in ten years from then, the next Nobel Laureate in Biome, PA, bio Mhmm. By friends. Not yeah. At Marix. Not a, not a MET lab. Which
which just happened with domestic. Yeah.
Without yeah. This happened originally two years back. So and what was Google's all gonna be there? We were gonna be the Computer. Computer providers for that. Mhmm. So I pulled together a small group of people, and we call it BlueGenomics. And, one of the people you wanted to work with was a company called Console. That's
right. My first one. Yes. Yeah.
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