Parikshit Sharma

Partner

2021 - Current

Accelerate deep technologies with an 8-person team administering accelerator programs and managing a portfolio of 140 deep tech startups. $4B raised and $9B enterprise value realized by portfolio since 2015.

Principal

2019 - 2021

• Invest follow-on funds in the portfolio at Pre-Seed to Series-B stage via investment committee. • Author scientific and market research memos, sector decks, and playbooks. • Promote IndieBio by facilitating tours and panels for VCs, corporations, and government delegations.

Analyst

2017 - 2019

• Lead analysis and reporting for the IndieBio portfolio. • Author pitch books and investment theses for LP fundraising efforts. • Support portfolio companies with machine learning projects and financial modeling. • Due-diligence on computational biology and consumer biology companies. • Conduct rigorous industry research, assessing underlying technology, growth, gathering key operating metrics and speaking with experts to understand trends.

Board Observer

2023

Board Observer

2021

Director Board of Directors

2020

Director Board of Directors

2021 - 2024

Quantitative Skills Study Group Leader

2017 - 2017

Study Group leader in class analyzing economic issues in professional and amateur sports. Topics include the economic objectives of sports teams, the industrial organization of sports leagues, the public financing of sports, the labor economics of sports including discrimination, sports in the non -profit sector, and in-game strategy, including performance metrics and behavioural decision theory. I assist students by answering questions on R programming language as well as on general statistical and data presentation and economic theory questions.

Student Manager

2013 - 2017

• Supervised cash register, grill operations and miscellaneous operations. • Managed head chef and student employee engagement

Research Assistant

2015 - 2017

• Implemented machine learning based approach to investigate how seasonality and region affect the likelihood of finding fishing spots in the Gulf of Maine. • Conducted statistical analysis to estimate the likelihood that a particular region in the Gulf of Maine was a fishing spot in the past. Was awarded Roberts Fund mini-grant for the project. • Specified and estimated the many factors affecting the productivity of historic Gulf of Maine fishing spots. • Co-author of academic paper that builds on research conducted. Currently in submission.

Teaching Assistant

2015 - 2015

Taught a brief course on elementary Hindi grammar, socio-cultural evolution and historical trends of the Indian subcontinent.

Member , Common Good Grant Committee

2014 - 2015

The Common Good Grant Program is a facilitator between local non-profits and philanthropic endeavors of Bowdoin College alumni and other donors. The program enables students to learn about the motivations and logistics behind the workings of both non-profits and donors. In addition, community engagement for students through active participation lies at the heart of program. As a member of the Grant Committee I evaluated grant proposals from local non-profits and allocated funds through a process of site visits and collective decision making. The program successfully allocated over $22,000 to 11 non-profits in the Brunswick area.

Summer Intern

2016 - 2016

• Assessed risk and regulatory factors of credit enhancement instruments for solar-rooftop. • Identified regulatory and financial risk factors and stakeholders in the Indian solar sector. • Evaluated funding rooftop solar energy generation in the Indian Smart Cities Program. • Introduced Behavioral Economics framework for solar adoption. • Presented findings on the financial health of banks and distribution companies.

Research Assistant

2016 - 2016

•Automated search and verification processes of emission reduction from around 1750 wind energy farms in India. The automation method successfully reduced data collection timeframe of project from months to one week. •Researched data and summarized trends on global adoption and implementation of automobile emission standards.

Summer Intern

2015 - 2015

•Studied and summarized trends, policy environment, stakeholder ecosystem and opportunity outlook for financing Solar Parks in a rapidly emerging renewable energy sector in India. •Examined financial and regulatory risks to conduct cost-benefit analysis for prospects of long-run inclusion of energy storage infrastructure to the Indian power grid. •Analyzed value chain links and certification processes to specify best practices to accelerate the National Policy on Organic Farming of the Indian Government.