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Lightspeed ventures founder11/16/2023 ![]() ![]() Instead, it's individual decision-makers, knowledge workers at companies and independent teams picking what tool is the best for them in their day-to-day workspace. No longer is it a centralized IT team buying software solutions. The consumerization of SaaS has been a trend for the past ten years, where the people that buy software have shifted. Two of the most interesting things we're seeing in SaaS right now, with the first being something that has been going on for a long time, is the consumerization of SaaS and the other is around distributed and remote work. Thank you so much, first of all, for having me. Diving straight in, you've invested in a lot of B2B software companies, what are some of the most important trends you see in SaaS today? Anoushka Vaswani Anoushka, thanks so much for joining us today and flying all the way from San Francisco to be with us. Be sure to also check out the video interview, which we'll embed below. What follows is a transcript of the interview she did with Fullview CEO Daniel Bakh, edited and condensed for clarity. We couldn't agree more, which is why we were eager to get her on CX Talks when she recently visited Copenhagen. She's on record saying that her international upbringing has given her a deep appreciation for the fact that there is no one-size-fits-all model for success. She's lived in the United Arab Emirates and Turkey and Brussels and the US, so it should be no surprise that her worldview is as varied as her investment portfolio. What we find more impressive than her resume, however, is her mindset. And finally, a partnership at Lightspeed, which is well-known for being amongst the first VCs to invest in behemoths such as Snapchat, Affirm and Grubhub. Two years as an investor at Matrix, where she supported entrepreneurs raising their first rounds of funding. A successful stint at Masterclass, where she joined as their third-ever project manager and launched an interactive player for the Herbie Hancock class. Gigs at Goldman and McKinsey, where she led the firm’s first project with Facebook on the launch of. A double major in Economics and Psychology from Columbia, where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Breaking the moldĪnoushka has an impressive resume. World, meet Anoushka Vaswani, one of Fullview’s biggest champions and chief spearheader of record-breaking seed rounds. We'd like to introduce you to one of them today. As you can imagine, smashing the record for the largest seed round raised in an entire country is no mean feat, but we’ve had plenty of people working behind the scenes to make it possible. The effort was led by the legendary Lightspeed Venture Partners and joined by a group of 24 angel investors, including founders and leaders from world-class companies like Coinbase, Unity, Celonis, Pleo and Personio, among many others. If you haven’t yet heard, Fullview recently raised the largest seed round in Danish history! ![]()
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