Hemant Mohapatra
Private Equity Investor chez Lightspeed India Partners Advisors LLP
Profil
Hemant is partner at Lightspeed India and also happens to be a poet who excels at math.
All his life, he’s been attracted to careers where he gets to use both sides of his brain.
His journey into VC, however, was anything but linear.
Growing up, he wanted to be a writer and fell in love with computer science during his undergrad at IIT Bombay.
After IIT, he reinvented himself a few times as a hardware, then a software engineer, a product manager, and later, as a deal-maker for Google.
It was at Google where Hemant led a growth investment in Avere Systems, a Lightspeed company later acquired by Microsoft, and discovered his love for investing.
“A lot of what I enjoyed most at Google — working closely with passionate founders, helping startups grow, and understanding where the world could be a few years out — started to look like venture capital work.” After nearly five years at Google, Hemant joined Andreessen Horowitz in Silicon Valley with a focus on software infrastructure technology.
Before Andreessen Horowitz and Google, he was an Engineer and Product Manager at AMD, a micro-processor firm, where he focused on building and launching AMD’s low-power chips for laptops and mobile phones.
Hemant moved back to India in 2018 and has seen firsthand just how significantly the Indian startup ecosystem has matured over the years.
“Founders are now looking for VCs that understand their mission deeply, have built products and teams before, and can offer experiential learnings, not theoretical insights,” said Hemant.
Moreover, many startups building in and for India now have global aspirations.
And Hemant has the right mix of operational and product experience, as well as deep networks in both India and the U.S., to help.
“I love scrappy, unpolished, mad-crazy founders with a grand vision, relentless optimism, insane amounts of energy, and a passion for building products and delighting their audience,” said Hemant.
Postes actifs de Hemant Mohapatra
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Lightspeed India Partners Advisors LLP
Lightspeed India Partners Advisors LLP Investment ManagersFinance Lightspeed India Partners Advisors LLP is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Lightspeed Management Co. LLC founded in 2004 with headquartered in New Delhi. | Private Equity Investor | 14/05/2018 |
Anciens postes connus de Hemant Mohapatra
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AH Capital Management LLC
AH Capital Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance AH Capital Management LLC (Andreessen Horowitz) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Lowell Andreessen and Ben A. Horowitz. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. | Private Equity Investor | 13/05/2018 |
Formation de Hemant Mohapatra
University of Cambridge | Masters Business Admin |
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay | Undergraduate Degree |
University of Cincinnati (Ohio) | Graduate Degree |
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AH Capital Management LLC
AH Capital Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance AH Capital Management LLC (Andreessen Horowitz) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Lowell Andreessen and Ben A. Horowitz. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. | Finance |
Lightspeed India Partners Advisors LLP
Lightspeed India Partners Advisors LLP Investment ManagersFinance Lightspeed India Partners Advisors LLP is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Lightspeed Management Co. LLC founded in 2004 with headquartered in New Delhi. | Finance |