Ben Bayat

Ben Bayat is an Active SV Advisor at Interstate Fusion. Prior to this, they were a Partner at Illuminate Ventures, a early stage VC firm in the San Francisco Bay Area that focused on North American-based high growth, "lean startups" in the high-tech landscape, with a particular focus on Enterprise cloud computing. Before Illuminate Ventures, Ben was the Cofounder & COO at GuideRide, a peer-to-peer ridesharing mobile app connecting locals to tourists. Ben also has experience as the Sr. Manager of Engineering and Sales at IBM.

Ben Bayat has a MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business and a BS from Case Western Reserve University.