Anuj Bhargava is the Managing Director and Head of Corporate and Strategic Development for India
and South East Asia at Lightspeed. Prior to this, he worked with Deutsche Bank, London where he
served as Managing Director of Investment Banking. He has had a two-decade strong and extremely
successful banking career in London across Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank, where he originated
and executed over $100bn of global M&A, debt & equity capital market transactions.
Anuj works very closely with startup founders on strategic and financing transactions across the
Lightspeed portfolio, advising them on fundraising, M&A and ESG strategy, while building &
maintaining institutional investor relationships that enable companies on their journey from
venture to growth to public markets. Anuj is also responsible for managing the funds liquidity
needs and strategic exits thereby crystallizing value for all our stakeholders.
Anuj is an alumnus of The Doon School and studies economics at the London School of Economics
and Political Science.
