Vish Mishra

Vish has built a Silicon Valley career over more than 40 years. He is the founder of Telera and Excelan and has also been the CEO of five start-ups.

Vish is also a renowned venture capitalist with Clearstone Venture Partners, with notable portfolio companies such as PayPal (eBay), Rubicon Project (RUBI), BillDesk (India), SupplyFrame, User Testing, The Hive, and The Fabric. He sits or has sat on boards of many companies and is a respected philanthropist dedicated to several social causes.

He is a former president and trustee of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) Silicon Valley, a director at India Community Center and advisor to Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship at San Jose State, a founding board member of San Francisco-Bangalore Sister City Initiative and the Bay Area co-chair for Akshaya Patra, a midday school meal program in India serving 1.7 million meals daily.