Lightstone Aspada is an India focused impact investment platform. Formed in partnership with Aspada and LGT in August 2019, Lightstone-Aspada is the India focused effort of LGT' Lightstone. Lightstone is LGT Group's impact investing initiative to build a global multi-billion dollar direct investing
Location: India, Karnataka, Bengaluru
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Portfolio 3
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 15.02.2016 | AasaanJobs | aasaanjobs.com | $6.5M | India, Mah... |
| 03.06.2015 | EM3 AgriSe... | em3agri.com | $13.3M | India, Del... |
| 25.06.2014 | Capital Fl... | capitalfloat.com | $173.66M | India, Kar... |
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| Date | Title | Description |
| 27.10.2021 | Full-stack Agritech platform DeHaat raises US$115 million in series D round | New Delhi, India -27 October 2021- DeHaat, thetechnology-based platform offering end-to-end agricultural services to farmers in India,today announced it has raised US$115 million in Series D funding, led by Belgium based investment firm Sof... |
| 15.12.2020 | Arya banks $21m in Quona-led Series B to boost financial inclusion for India’s farmers | Delhi-based Arya launched seven years ago as a logistics and warehousing venture for India’s smallholder grain farmers. The company’s aim was to curb food waste while boosting farmer incomes, by giving growers a place to store their harvest... |
| 02.09.2020 | Google leads $28m Dunzo funding as Indian food e-commerce receives pandemic pickup | Investors are pouring more dollars into Indian food e-commerce as the industry continues to see heightened demand amid the country’s continuing Covid-19 crisis. Bengaluru-based Dunzo has just raised $28 million in the first tranche of a new... |
| 04.03.2020 | India’s Arya raises $6m pre-series B funding to help farmers avoid low grain prices | One of the worst times for an Indian smallholder farmer to come to market with their grains or seeds is exactly when you might expect them to do just that — right after harvest. At this point, even during relatively bad seasons, the market ... |
| 14.11.2017 | Indian Agribusiness Marketplace Startups are Having a Moment, But Will it Last? | An Indian startup trend that experts have foretold for a while is coming to fruition in a big way. As India grows its horticultural capacity in reaction to the government’s National Horticulture Mission, which launched in 2005 to enable the... |
| 02.10.2017 | Horticulture Will Dominate Agtech Innovation in India in Next Decade | Editor’s Note: Hemendra Mathur is agribusiness investment lead and venture partner at Bharat Innovations Fund, a new $150 million early-stage fund with a focus on agtech, cleantech, health-tech and enterprise-tech ventures. Mathur previousl... |
| 15.08.2017 | In India, an Uber for farm machinery aims to make a difference in rural areas | Uber has inspired countless businesses to adopt its asset-light and on-demand approach to their industries. The examples are countless. Food delivery, dry cleaning, jet planes, home services rental bikes, or even phone chargers to name but ... |
| 15.12.2016 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Clear Labs Raises $13m Series B from GV, Khosla, Soros-Linked Fund Invests in Arya Collateral, more | Clear Labs, a food analytics startup, raised a $13 million Series B from a series of venture capital heavyweights including Google’s venture arm GV, early-stage and angel funders Felicis Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and Chinese internet, mobi... |
| 15.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 15, 2016 | Snapdeal received $200M; Entouch Controls completed an $8M funding; Mondo got funded Habble, an Italian provider of a platform to monitor and optimize the use and costs of fixed and mobile telephony in different business areas, closed an an... |
| 15.02.2016 | India: Recruitment portal Aasaanjobs raises $5m led by Soros-backed Aspada Investments | Premium Online jobs portal, Aasaanjobs, has raised around $5 million in a round led by George Soros-backed Aspada Investments and with participation from existing investors including IDG Venture Capital India. Continue reading this story wi... |
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