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Free money has disappeared. Vanity metrics are out. As the venture capital market resets, the Lightbox playbook of concentrated bets on differentiated, technology-enabled businesses, focused on India’s fragmented consumption markets is poised to deliver significant value accretion over the next few years.
Bombay Shirt Company, which Lightbox entered in 2019 as the first institutional investor, has proved over the last few years that slow fashion at scale is a business model that is financially viable. A fresh capital infusion from Singularity and CaratLane founder Mithun Sacheti sets up the company for the next level of growth.
Last June, Lightbox rolled up its existing internship programme into a year-long Fellowship that immerses undergraduate students in India's startup and venture capital ecosystem. So far, it's going very well.
With a view to sharing governance learnings and best practices specific to startup businesses, Lightbox’s legal and finance team recently kicked off a webinar-based knowledge series for the portfolio. The first of the series focused on auditing challenges faced by startups.
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