Women in Venture Capital

A Conversation with Anoushka Vaswani – Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners | Softbank Investment Advisers | MasterClass | Matrix Partners | McKinsey & Co. | Goldman Sachs | MBA ‘19 @ Harvard Business School

September 01, 2020
Women in Venture Capital
A Conversation with Anoushka Vaswani – Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners | Softbank Investment Advisers | MasterClass | Matrix Partners | McKinsey & Co. | Goldman Sachs | MBA ‘19 @ Harvard Business School
Show Notes

In today's episode we chat with our first female partner on the show, Anoushka Vaswani, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners in the Bay Area. Anoushka talks to us about enterprise software, diversity at the decision table, the importance of self-advocacy in career progression and fundraising amid COVID.

At Lightspeed, Anoushka focuses on growth-stage companies within the enterprise software and infrastructure ecosystems. She has years of investing experience, having previously worked on the investment teams of Softbank Investment Advisers and Matrix Partners. She also has startup experience as a product manager at MasterClass. Anoushka started her career in banking at Goldman Sachs before moving to consulting at McKinsey. She double majored in Economics and Psychology at Columbia and went to Harvard for her MBA.