Name : Deepak Jeevan Kumar
Designation : Principal
Company Name : General Catalyst Partners
Topic: VC investment trends in SDI
Bio:
Deepak Jeevan Kumar is a Principal at General Catalyst Partners, where he focusses on helping entrepreneurs with disruptive ideas in big data, cloud computing, data center infrastructure, cyber-security and clean energy. He has been with General Catalyst since 2010, first in Boston and later in the firm’s Palo Alto office. He specializes in incubating and launching big data and cloud computing startups. Deepak has been closely involved in General Catalyst’s investments in AltiScale, DataGravity, ParElastic, Push Computing, Sunglass.io and Virtual Instruments. Prior to joining GC, Deepak led Sun Microsystems’ high performance computing practice in the Asia-Pacific region. He has the distinction of being a key architect of a few top 10 supercomputers in the world. He was had a short stint at the Yale Investments office. Deepak is a graduate of the National University of Singapore, earning a B.Eng. in Computer Engineering; the Singapore-MIT Alliance, earning a S.M. in Computer Science; and the Yale School of Management, earning an M.B.A.