Overview

Akshay focuses on consumer internet, commerce and mobile investments at Lightspeed India Partners Advisors LLP. Prior to Lightspeed, he was at Flipkart.com, where he was a founding member of the Corporate Development team and spearheaded early-stage investments in the e-commerce, mobile tech, and consumer internet eco-systems. Akshay previously co-founded Whalelogix, a seed-funded e-commerce data-science startup in San Francisco. Prior to Whalelogix, he was a member of the investment team at Accel Partners where he focused on early-stage consumer investments in India. Earlier in his career, Akshay advised private equity funds in evaluating investments during his time at the US and India offices of Bain & Company. Akshay is passionate about the tech startup eco-system and has served as a mentor at Microsoft Ventures India as well as to several entrepreneurs. Akshay holds an MBA from The Wharton School, Philadelphia and graduated with Highest Honors with a B.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.

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• analytics
• entrepreneurship
• start ups
• business strategy
• business intelligence
• strategy
• emerging technologies
• management consulting
• management
• venture capital
• crm
• information technology
• financial modeling
• consulting
• partnerships
• product management
• competitive analysis
• cloud computing
• business development
• customer relationship management
• market entry
• infrastructure
• private equity
• corporate development

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Languages

• english
• german
• hindi