About me
Deep Nishar is a managing director at General Catalyst, a global investment and transformation company, partnering with founders from seed to growth stage and beyond to seek to build companies that withstand the test of time. At GC, Deep focuses on investing in growth-stage companies in artificial intelligence, enterprise software, biotech, and life sciences, working with the next generation of forward-thinking founders, and helping to guide a transformational change in technology and investing.
Prior to joining GC, Deep was a founding team member and leader helping to build the Softbank Vision Fund into a $100B global platform. He has emerged as a successful growth-stage investor respected by founders and fellow investors alike, having created strong outcomes in the enterprise software, healthcare and biotech sectors. In particular, he foresaw the potential for computational biology and genomics and led SoftBank’s investments in 10X Genomics and Guardant Health, establishing the firm as an early leader in this category. Deep also led SoftBanks investments in category-leading enterprise software companies such as Slack, Cohesity and OSIsoft as well as the buyout of Arm. Prior to Softbank, as Chief Product Officer, Deep led LinkedIn’s product management, data science, user experience, web development, business development, and online sales globally, contributing to both a significant increase in the company’s global membership and revenues. Prior to that, Deep joined Google in 2003 and helped start and scale its mobile business, and established and led its product and technology centers in Asia. Deep was awarded the Google Founders Award, given to employees who have made extraordinary contributions to the company.
Since joining GC, Deep has led our investments in Adept, Armis, Cellanome, FarMart, Modular, Parabillis, SonarSource, and Upside amongst others. Deep has also been an angel investor in a number of GC portfolio companies including Stripe, Figma, Eightfold.ai, Coda and Glean. Deep has a strong belief in multidisciplinary innovation and strong systems of leadership as the foundational pillars for building enduring companies.
Deep holds an MBA with highest honors (Baker Scholar) from Harvard Business School, a MSEE from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a B. Tech with honors from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He has been awarded 14 US patents.
