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Deep Nishar
Member of the Management Committee at General Catalyst
Mountain View, California
Overview
Deep Nishar is a Product Strategist, Investor, and Entrepreneur based in Mountain View, California. He has held significant roles at LinkedIn as Senior Vice President of Products & User Experience and at Google as Senior Director of Products, showcasing his expertise in global product management and product strategy.
Nishar's career highlights include managing director at General Catalyst and senior managing partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, where he invested in various companies such as Modular, Adept AI, and Deep Genomics, demonstrating his success in the venture capital space.
Work Experience
Managing Director and Member of the Management Committee
2022 - Current
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.
General Catalyst partners with ambitious founders to drive resilience and applied AI from seed to growth.
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
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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)
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Founder & Vice President of Products
1999 - 2001