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Pankaj Mitra

Partner·Bessemer Venture Partners

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Bio

Professional summary

Pankaj Mitra is a partner in Bessemer's Bangalore office focused on enterprise tech, AI, and cybersecurity. Before Bessemer, he worked on Cisco's corporate development team, where he led investments and M&A activity for the global customer experiences portfolio and India; his Cisco investments included Fiddler, Uniphore, and Whatfix. He previously worked at Infosys, helped found its $500 million innovation fund, helped launch VMware's first cloud services as a product manager, and was a management consultant at Deloitte.

Notable companies

Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed

FiddlerUniphoreWhatfixIdeaforgeWhoop

Background

Career, education, and skills

Career history

  • Bessemer Venture PartnersPartnerPresent
  • CiscoCorporate Development
  • InfosysCorporate Development / Innovation Fund
  • VMwareProduct Manager
  • DeloitteManagement Consultant

Education

  • Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurDegree
  • Haas School of Business, University of California, BerkeleyMBA

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