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Rob Chandra Managing Partner Bessemer Venture Partners
Rob Chandra is a Managing Partner in Bessemer's Menlo Park office. Since entering the venture capital industry in 1996, Rob has been involved with 19 early-stage investments that have gone public or have been acquired by public companies.
Rob is the founding managing partner of the firm's investment practice in China and India where he recruited an experienced local team, established the offices, led investments in Anant Raj, BA Systems, Rico Auto, Motilal Oswal Financial Services, New Vernon Capital, Sarovar, and Shriram EPC, and contributed to the firm's investment in FG Wireless. Rob is active in the semiconductor industry and led the firm's investments in Avnera, Berkeley Design, PA Semi, and Summit Micro. Rob is also interested in printed electronics, alternative energy, and consumer driven health care and led the firm's investments in Kovio and Miasolè and is involved with IPC – The Hospitalists Company.
Prior to joining Bessemer, Rob was a general partner with Commonwealth Capital Ventures, which he joined after 10 years of industry experience. Rob was an engagement manager with McKinsey & Company in their Los Angeles and then Palo Alto offices where he served high tech and health care related clients. Previously, Rob spent three years with Accenture working in their San Francisco, London, and then New York offices where he served financial services and high tech clients. Rob worked for IBM in sales and marketing where he focused on the Unix workstation product line. Early in his career, Rob worked in the strategic planning department for Lucky Stores which was acquired by Albertsons, the nation's second largest grocery chain.
Rob holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from University of California at Berkeley. |
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