Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 1
Number of Founded Organizations 1
  • Primary Job Title Partner
  • Primary Organization 
    Lightbox
  • Investor Type  Investment Partner

Sandeep is the glue at Lightbox. Having pulled together the team over the past 3 years, he’s the one responsible for keeping the machine moving as one. Sandeep moved to Mumbai in 2005 to lead Sherpalo Ventures in India. As a Partner with Sherpalo he has been a part of two Indian technology unicorns ($1 billion value companies – InfoEdge and

InMobi), with a third (GreenDust) on the way to joining the club. He has led Series A investments and taken operational roles such as CEO and head of Corporate Development in companies like InMobi, Cleartrip and GreenDust.

A dreamer from the start, who doesn’t believe in choosing between “this or that” he did his undergrad in both business and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Like most Penn grads he then went into the world of investment banking. However, since it was the height of the dot.com boom, he did it a little differently by moving out to Palo Alto, California to join CSFB Technology Group.

Having helped tell a few stories to the public markets Sandeep decided to write his own story and teamed up with a friend to build a digital music company that was incubated by Sony Music – unfortunately, they were 10 years too early and ended up selling the company to Sony after the Internet bubble burst. After a few years of living the Bay Area dream at a start up and getting his MBA from Wharton, he moved to New York City to join InterActive Corp (IAC) – the owners of Expedia, TicketMaster, Home Shopping Network and other consumer technology businesses. While at IAC he helped launched Gifts.com and started to explore the India technology opportunity.

If you want to hear some stories of what it takes to build a consumer technology company in India, just pull up a chair and buckle up... it’s been a rocket of a ride.

Number of Partner Investments 3
Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Investor Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
Feb 26, 2024
Zeno Health
Lightbox
Series C - Zeno Health
$25M
Feb 4, 2021
Amaha (formerly InnerHour)
Lightbox
Yes
Series A - Amaha (formerly InnerHour)
$5.2M
Sep 19, 2019
Zeno Health
Lightbox
Yes
Series A - Zeno Health
$14M
Number of Current Jobs 2
Number of Past Jobs 5
Sandeep Murthy has 2 current jobs as Partner at Lightbox and Co-Founder & Partner at Lightbox. Additionally, Sandeep Murthy has had 5 past jobs including General Partner at Sherpalo Ventures.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Sherpalo Ventures
General PartnerJul 1, 2005Mar 1, 2014
Interactive
Associate DirectorMay 2004Jul 2005
ecMarkets
Vice PresidentMar 2002Mar 2004
Intraware
Manager, Strategic DevelopmentAug 1999May 2000
Credit Suisse
AnalystJun 1998Aug 1999
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 1
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 1
Sandeep Murthy is the Board Member at Zoomin.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Cleartrip
Board of Director2006Apr 2014
Number of Events 2
Sandeep Murthy has participated in 2 events. They most recently attended, or will attend, SuperReturn Asia on Sep 25, 2017.