Deep Nishar

Managing Director and Member of the Management Committee

2022

At General Catalyst, we invest in powerful, positive change that endures - for our entrepreneurs, our investors, our people and society. We support founders with a long term view who challenge the status quo; partnering with them from seed to growth stage and beyond to build companies that can become enduring institutions. Led investments in Adept, Cellanome, Dewpoint, Eikon, FarMart, Georgiammune, Latent, Maze Therapeutics, Modular, SonarSource, TenSixty Bio, Upside, Variant Bio and Vevo.

Senior Managing Partner

2015 - 2021

Responsible for SoftBank Vision Fund's global investments in software, frontier tech and healthcare. Led 36 investments resulting in 10 IPOs and 4 M&A. Investments include 10X Genomics (Nasdaq: TXG), Attentive Mobile, Cohesity, Collective Health, Deep Genomics, Eightfold AI, Elevate Bio, Encoded, Formlabs, Fungible (Nasdaq: MSFT), Grofers (NSE: ZOMATO), Guardant Health (Nasdaq: GH), Improbable.io, Insitro, IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), Karius, Mapbox, Nauto, OneTrust, OSIsoft (LSE: AVV), Pantheon, Pear Therapeutics (Nasdaq: PEAR), Petuum, Qualtrics (Nasdaq: XM), Redis Labs, Relay (Nasdaq: RLAY), SambaNova Systems, Seer (Nasdaq: SEER), SendBird, Slack (NYSE: WORK), Symbotic (Nasdaq: SYM), Vianai, Vir (Nasdaq: VIR), Vividion (BAYN.de) and Zymergen (NYSE: DNA)

University Lecturer

2015 - 2018

Co-teacher of a class on Product Management Fundamentals for graduate students in engineering. The course is aimed at students aspiring to start product-centric companies or taking on a product manager role in technology companies.

Board Of Trustees

2011 - 2017

Castilleja School educates motivated young women to become confident thinkers and compassionate leaders with a sense of purpose to effect change in the world.

Senior Vice President, Products & User Experience

2009 - 2014

Led a global organization of about 500 people which encompassed several functions including product management, data science, user experience, web development, business development, and online sales. Key team accomplishments during my tenure -- - Global membership increased from 32 million to 347 million - Annual revenue increased from USD 78 million to USD 2.22 billion - LinkedIn became a top 20 US and top 25 global site as measured by Comscore

Senior Director of Products

2003 - 2009

Led Google’s Product division for the Asia-Pacific region. (2007-9) Launched and led global mobile initiatives. (2005-7) Built back-end systems to manage company’s worldwide customer base. (2003-5) Won Google’s Founders Award for innovations in the AdWords system. (2004)

Founder & Vice President of Products

1999 - 2001