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Vishal Tripathi

Senior Investment Associate at Next Legacy Partners

Palo Alto, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Senior Investment Associate

    2023 - Current

    Next Legacy is on a mission to amplify the impact of our diverse community of philanthropists, athletes, cultural luminaries, venture capitalists, and founders through outsized venture capital returns. Visit nextlegacy.com for more information

  • Senior Investment Associate

    2022 - 2023

    Legacy Venture is the premier path for engaged philanthropists to tap into the best of venture capital. Founded in 1999, Legacy Venture manages nearly $2B in commitments from over 600 investors who intend that all returns, both principal and gains, will be given away to philanthropic organizations of their choice. Beyond superior financial returns, Legacy amplifies the effectiveness of investors’ philanthropy through a unique community of individual philanthropists and select foundations. Investors come from all over the world and so do the causes they support. From the environment to education, economic development to arts and culture, Legacy strives to magnify investors’ positive impact on the world.

  • Portfolio Manager

    2020 - 2022

    Plexo Capital as an institutional investment firm invests in emerging seed-stage VCs led by diverse teams and invests directly into companies sourced from the portfolios of VCs where Plexo Capital has an investment. Incubated and spun out of GV (Google Ventures), investors in Plexo Capital include Alphabet (holding company of Google), Intel Capital, Cisco Investment, the Royal Bank of Canada, Kapor Capital, the Hampton University Endowment (Cambridge Associates client) and the Ford Foundation.

  • Industry Academic Project

    2020 - 2020

    Academic Project for the Berkeley MFE program. Working on daily trading strategies.

  • Associate, Quantitative Research

    2017 - 2020

    Macro Investable Indices and Commodities desk quant.

  • Co-Founder & Co-Convener

    2015 - 2017

    Leading Endeavours to Achieve Progress (LEAP) is an initiative for all the student run social volunteer organisations across the country. It is the society of like-minded organisations bent on bringing upon a change in the social sector. The structure includes 1. Youth Conference - Annual Assemblage of the participating organisations. 2. Mentorship - Provided by some influential organisations in the social sector. 3. LEAP Portal - A platform to bring the entire society together.

  • Senior Executive Member

    2013 - 2017

    Project Lead - Rural Entrepreneurial Division (RED) & Summer in a Startup (SiS) Senior Operations Associate for Conquest 2015 - BITS Pilani's International Statup Conclave Coordinator - BedRock - E-Week 2014

  • Summer Intern

    2016 - 2016

    • Responsible for Inventory Management Study of Crude Oil and Middle Distillates worth more than INR 800 billion. • Assessed the dependence on International Crude Markets and the optimum storage capacity for the Mumbai Refinery.

  • Winter Analyst

    2015 - 2016

    Product development in the space of corporate hiring solutions and skill testing. Side project in 2D animation video making on Adobe After Effects.

  • Summer Intern

    2015 - 2015

    Chemical Engineering Summer Intern in India's oldest and largest textile firm. Working in the Auxiliary section with major responsibilities in the Effluents Treatment Plant.

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