Venture with Grace Hemant Mohapatra, Partner at Lightspeed: SaaS & Enterprise Tech
HEMANT MOHAPATRA is a partner with Lightspeed Venture Partners India. He focuses on global SaaS, Enterprise Infrastructure, and frontier / deep tech areas such as crypto, space/satellite, AR/VR and more. Lightspeed has offices in Silicon Valley, India, China, Israel, Europe and South East Asia, with companies such as SnapChat, Byju's, OYO Rooms, Affirm, Docker, Nutanix, AppDynamics, Mulesoft and many more in our portfolio. Prior to that, he was a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a VC firm based in the silicon valley and investor in Facebook, Twitter, AirBnb, Zynga, Foursquare, Coinbase, Medium and more. He joined a16z after almost 5 years at Google doing strategic partnerships deals (e.g. NetApp, EMC, Verizon, TATA) and investments (e.g. Avere series E, acqd by Microsoft) for the Google Cloud platform team. Before a16z and Google, he was an Engineer & Product Manager at AMD, a micro-processor firm. Topics:
- Investing Trends in SaaS, Enterprise Infrastructure, Crypto, and Spacetech
- Insights on differences between startup ecosystems in India, Silicon Valley, and other markets
- The future of enterprise infrastructure
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