Somesh Dash, IVP GP: Backing Enterprise, Consumer & Digital Health Leaders
Episode description
Somesh Dash is a General Partner at IVP. He has been an investor at IVP for 19 years, where he focuses primarily on growth investments in enterprise software, consumer and digital health companies. He led or actively participated in IVP's investments in Accompany Health, Aledade, Amplitude, Brex, Business Insider, Datadog, Discord, Expanse, H1, Hello Heart, Humu, Lime, Klout, Lyra Health, Perplexity, Pindrop Security, Pure Storage, Qubole, Rubrik, Snap, SoundCloud, Tanium, Thrive Global, Uber, Uproxx, Walker and Company, and Whisper. Outside of his work with IVP, he also serves as a board member of the Advisory Council at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business (GSB) and the US India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF). He is a life member of the Council of Foreign Relations and on the Advisory Board of Malaria No More. Topics:
- Decision-making process for growth-stage investments
- Evaluates opportunities across different sectors (enterprise, consumer, digital health)
- Evolution of enterprise software and SaaS business models
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