Hemant Mohapatra

Hemant Mohapatra serves as a Partner at Lightspeed India Partners Advisors since August 2018, specializing in investments across various sectors and stages of startups. Currently, Hemant is involved as a Series A investor in Marqo, a seed investor in multiple companies including Mitti Labs, Thena, p0, and CommandK.Dev, and has made investments in Sarvam AI at both seed and Series A stages. Additionally, Hemant is a Series B investor in Supabase and has been an investor in Solana Labs since 2021. Hemant's academic background includes an MBA in Corporate Strategy and Arts Management from the University of Cambridge, a Bachelor's in Engineering from IIT Bombay, and a Master's in Computer Science/Engineering from the University of Cincinnati.