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Harsha Kumar

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AVP, Product at Olacabs.com
📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Harsha Kumar is a Partner at Lightspeed, focusing on early-stage investments in India and Southeast Asia. She leverages her extensive operational experience from leading product teams at high-growth companies like Ola, where she scaled the service from 3, 000 to over a million daily rides. She holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Harsha has been passionate about technology since her early teens, starting her career as a coder and describing the process of debugging code as the "ultimate high". She invests in people more than companies, looking for founders who are adventurous, fearless, and ambitious.

She transitioned from being a hands-on product leader who built a 40-person product organization to a venture capitalist shaping the next wave of startups.

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
AVP, Product
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Startup Investing
As a Partner at Lightspeed, she invests in early-stage technology companies across India and Southeast Asia, with a focus on consumer, fintech, and SaaS.
Product Scaling
She has deep operational experience scaling products, most notably helping grow Ola from 3, 000 to over a million daily bookings.
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Career

Work history

9-2014
AVP, Product
Olacabs.com
4-2014 - 9-2014
Senior Product Manager - Mobile
Olacabs.com
6-2013 - 3-2014
Lead Product Manager
AdNear
6-2012 - 6-2013
Product Manager
Zynga
6-2011 - 8-2011
Summer Intern - Strategy for SMB (Cloud Practice)
Dell
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Education
2011 - 2011
MBA
INSEAD
2001 - 2005
B.E
Cummins College of Engineering, Pune
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