Ravi Mhatre

Biography

Ravi Mhatre is the Co-Owner of Mhatre Investments LP. Mr. Mhatre serves as the Founding Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He serves as Founding Partner of Lightspeed Venture Partners VI, L.P., Lightspeed Venture Partners I, L.P., Lightspeed Venture Partners VII, L.P. and Lightspeed Venture Partners VIII, L.P. Mr. Mhatre focuses primarily on software infrastructure, enterprise IT, mobility, internet, cloud-based services and applications investments. Mr. Mhatre served as Managing Director of Lightspeed Venture Partners. He was employed at Lightspeed-Gemini Internet Lab. He was employed at Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners, joining in 1999. Prior thereto, he served as an Investment Professional of Bessemer Venture Partners. Prior to entering the venture capital industry, he served as a Product Manager at Silicon Graphics, where he later directed the engineering workstation market development efforts. Previously, he served in the technology investment banking group at Lehman Brothers Inc. He also served as an Executive Officer of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. and Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation. He also worked in management consulting at Booz Allen. He served as an Executive Officer of Graphics Properties Holdings, Inc. He began his career as a Software Engineer at BDIS. He serves as Trustee of Mhatre Investments LP. He has been a Director of Nutanix, Inc. since July 2010 and has been its Lead Independent Director since August 2015. He serves as a Director of CloudPassage, Inc. He has been a Director of Exabeam, Inc. since February 07, 2017. Mr. Mhatre has been a Director of AppDynamics, Inc. since April 2008, MuleSource, Inc. since May 2007 and MuleSoft, Inc. since May 2007. He serves as Director of Clever Inc. He serves as Director at Omni Science Technology, Inc., KIXEYE Inc. He serves as a Director at WalmartLabs, Inc. and Virsa Systems, Inc. He served as a Director of OpTier, Inc., ThoughtSpot, Inc., EdgeSpring, Inc., SailPoint Technologies, Inc. and Kosmix Corporation. He served as a Director of Skybox Security, Inc., and Verizon Remote IP Application Management. He served as Director of Heighten Software, Inc. He served as a Director of Totality Corporation and Waveset Technologies, Inc. He served as a Director of TheFind, Inc. since February 16, 2005. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Blue Beacon Capital LLC. He serves as an Observer of NuMedii, Inc. He has also served as a Board Member or Board Observer for numerous successful venture-backed companies including net.Genesis (NTGX), Verio (VRIO), Riverbed (RVBD), Lifeminders (LFMN), TutorVista (acquired by Pearson), Rapsphere (acquired by Appsense), Masergy (acquired by Abry) and Webspective (acquired by Inktomi), and has been recognized on the Forbes Midas List of top venture capital investors. He has also served as a Member of the Board of Directors of The Indus Entrepreneurs Group (TiE) in Silicon Valley and as a VC Advisory Board Member to DeVenCI. He has been recognized as a Top 100 dealmaker on Forbes' Annual VC Midas List and has served as a Judge for the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Competition. He has 17 years of venture capital experience and six years of operating experience. Mr. Mhatre earned M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1993. He earned B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University.

Research Interest

Engineering