Hemant Mohapatra

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 8 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in venture capital and startup investments.
Strong background in strategic partnerships and business development.
Proven track record in software infrastructure investments.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Venture Capitalist with expertise in SaaS and software infrastructure investments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Investment StrategyVenture CapitalStartup AdvisoryPartnership ManagementBusiness StrategyStartup DevelopmentAi Technology

Other Skills

AIAdvisoryBusiness DevelopmentEntrepreneurshipInvestingInvestmentMergers & AcquisitionsPrivate EquitySoftware InfrastructureStartupsStrategic Partnerships

About

Current: Lightspeed (SaaS, Enterprise Infra, Crypto, Spacetech) Past: a16z, Google, AMD. About image: Chopin's Prelude Opus 28, No. 15 in D♭ major, signifying that the path to perfection is messy and non-linear.

Experience

Composio

Investor

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

Marqo

Investor

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

https://lsvp.com/stories/lightspeeds-investment-in-marqo-ai/

Sarvam ai

Investor

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Airbound

Investor

May 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Mitti labs

Investor

May 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

https://lsvp.com/stories/lightspeeds-investment-in-mitti-labs/

Thena

Investor

Apr 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

https://link.medium.com/qV0w1mdApAb

P0

Investor

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

https://medium.com/lightspeedindia/our-investment-in-p0-429857ea9108

Commandk.dev

Investor

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

https://link.medium.com/Dw0G3AfApAb

Supabase

Investor

Apr 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

https://medium.com/lightspeedindia/our-investment-in-supabase-2f443ff55aad

Treehouse

Investor

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs

https://medium.com/lightspeedindia/our-investment-in-treehouse-finance-37cacf9ae938

Indigg

Investor

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Kalam labs

Investor

Jul 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

https://medium.com/lightspeedindia/the-future-of-ed-is-metaverse-and-kalam-labs-is-building-it-dfe1e58e3ead

Pintu

Investor

Jun 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 9 mos · Jakarta, Indonesia

https://medium.com/lightspeedindia/lightspeeds-investment-in-pintu-indonesia-s-leading-crypto-broker-for-the-millennial-investor-5f4e8a81805a

Rattle

Investor

May 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

https://medium.com/lightspeedindia/lightspeeds-investment-in-rattle-32b1300b042a

Projectdiscovery.io

Investor

Mar 2021 – Present · 5 yrs

Solana labs

Investor

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

Hubilo

Investor

Nov 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 4 mos

https://medium.com/lightspeedindia/our-investment-in-hubilo-bringing-the-1t-events-industry-online-180dfc9ce863

Pepper

Board Observer

Sep 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 6 mos

Pixxel

Investor

Mar 2020 – Present · 6 yrs

https://medium.com/@MohapatraHemant/pixxel-comes-out-of-stealth-with-34m-seed-series-a-a3d8de73ddca

Nextbillion.ai

Investor

Mar 2020 – Present · 6 yrs

Yellow.ai

Board Observer

Dec 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 3 mos

Acceldata

Board Observer

Aug 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

Rephrase.ai

Investor (acqd by Adobe)

Jul 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 8 mos

Lightspeed india partners advisors

Partner

Aug 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore, Delhi, San Francisco

Investing in all sectors and all stages of startups.
About image: Chopin's Prelude Opus 28, No. 15 in D♭ major, signifying that the path to perfection is messy and non-linear.

InvestingStartupsStrategic PartnershipsInvestment StrategyVenture Capital

Andreessen horowitz

Partner

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

Investing in the next generation of software infrastructure tech.

Digitalocean

Board Observer

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr

InvestingSoftware InfrastructureInvestment StrategyVenture Capital

Actifio

Board Observer

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr

Cumulus networks

Board Observer

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr

Drishti

Board Observer

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr

Onshape inc.

Board Observer

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr

Various early stage companies

Angel Investor / Advisor

Jan 2016 – May 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

at Google:
series E for Avere Systems (acqd by Microsoft)
Angel/Seed investor
Springboard
Globevestor

Chabao

Co-Founder

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

3 foodie googlers with a few phds and masters in eating & computer sciences tried to start a company in AI + food/palate-tech and failed (but not before having a gala time).

Strategic PartnershipsBusiness DevelopmentPartnership ManagementBusiness Strategy

Google

Product Partnerships and Strategic Business Development

Jan 2012 – Jan 2017 · 5 yrs

partnerships with some m&a and investing mixed in. major deals: NetApp, EMC/Dell, Verizon, TATA, Avere, Equinix, and more.

InvestmentAdvisoryVenture CapitalStartup Advisory

Amd

Engineer and Product Manager

Jan 2006 – Jan 2011 · 5 yrs

Engineer (sw & hw) role focused on CPU architecture, power & core performance. Product Management role focused around power consumption for AMD's low-power segment. Part of the core team that launched the world's first APU (CPU+GPU on the same die): Fusion/Desna/ Ontario and more.

EntrepreneurshipAIStartup DevelopmentAI Technology