Deepak Mishra

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Principal

Hitachi Ventures

Mar 2024 - Current (2 years 8 months)

Hitachi Ventures is a $600M AUM independent financial focus fund of Hitachi Ltd investing in digital, green, and connective industries. I invest in Seed-Series B digital (data and AI) startups globally

Investments:
Ema (Series A - Building universal AI employees)

Sample Writings:
https://medium.com/@HitachiVentures/the-dawn-of-agentic-ai-transforming-enterprise-automation-and-the-future-of-work-e30844d41f1e

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Senior Associate

Avanta Ventures

Sep 2022 - Mar 2024 (1 year 7 months)

Avanta Ventures is a $300M fund that invests $1M-$10M in Seed, Series A and Series B stages, with the ability to lead deals, while also reserving significant capital for follow-on investment. We invest in insurtech, mobility, and risk-adjacent sectors such as fintech, cybersecurity, smart home, and applied artificial intelligence

I support thesis development, investment sourcing, diligence, portfolio support, and board governance

Board Observer:
AccuKnox (Seed/Zero trust cloud-native application protection platform for cloud and on-prem applications)
Exponential Markets (Seed/Derivatives platform to hedge against volatility in the mobility industry)

Selected Portfolio Companies:
Kin Insurance,

Angel Investor

Confidential Company - Tech Startup

Dec 2021 - Current (4 years 11 months)

Work primarily with pre-seed AI companies and help them with hiring and customers/GTM.
Example investments (they are hiring, reach out for details): Martian, Concierge AI, Emissary, Digital Asset Capital

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Associate

MSAD Ventures

Jul 2021 - Sep 2022 (1 year 3 months)

MS&AD Ventures is a $300M early-stage fund set up by MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings as a single LP. The fund invests primarily in Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A startups globally in InsurTech, FinTech, Web 3.0, Climate, Agtech, Cyber Security, Mobility, Digital Health, AI, and Analytics

I helped close $100m Fund 4 and sourced/diligence following selected investments:

Deception and Trust Analysis (US, Seed/Deception detecting platform)
Vizion (US, Seed/ Supply chain visibility platform)
Accelerant (US, PE Growth/Speciality reinsurer)
FloodFlash (UK, Series A/Parametric Flood Insurtech)
Repairsmith (US, Series B/Car repair and maintenance services; $190m acquisition by Autonation)
Redkik (US, Seed/

MBA Venture Fellow

Scout Ventures

Jan 2020 - Jun 2021 (1 year 6 months)

Scout Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm investing in frontier and dual-use technologies built by veterans, intelligence leaders, and premier research labs

I was a venture fellow while pursuing full-time business school. I developed the fund's thesis in quantum computing resulting in investments in Anametric, Agnostiq, Bleximo

UbiQD (advanced materials science)
Anametric (quantum communications hardware)
Voyager Space Holdings (diversified space tech)
Agnostiq (quantum computing software)
Resonant Link (advanced hardware for wireless power)
Bleximo (application-specific quantum computing hardware and software)

FLDP

Amazon Web Services AWS

Jan 2020 - Dec 2020 (1 year)

Finance Leadership Development Program in Amazon Web Services. Identified cost optimization opportunities in $18B+ AWS Infrastructure Capex spend across servers, data centers, networks

Fellow

InSite

Sep 2019 - Mar 2021 (1 year 7 months)

Startup Advisor: WhyHotel, Happied, EliteGaming Live. Helped build the fundraising deck, financial modeling, and product strategy

Senior Data Science Consultant

Capgemini Invent

Feb 2018 - Jun 2019 (1 year 5 months)

Tech Strategy (Data, Cloud, Process Mining, RPA, and AI) Consultant for Wealth Management, Insurance, Reinsurance, and Telecommunication clients.

I developed a resume screening application to extract keywords from resumes leveraging NLP techniques such as latent semantic analysis, entity mapping, and ontology building. Using GraphQL and real-time visualization, I created a knowledge graph tailored for HR use cases. I later spun off the technology into a startup and worked on it till end of business school

Data Consultant

Capco

Oct 2016 - Feb 2018 (1 year 5 months)

Data Strategy, Management, Governance Consultant for GSEs and a Commercial Bank

Data Science Consultant

Booz Allen Hamilton

Jan 2015 - Jun 2016 (1 year 6 months)

Data Scientist in NextGen Analytics, Strategic Innovation Group (SIG). Clients were the Department of Labor, Department of Transportation, SSIP, and the Garage (Innovation Ideas Group)

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