Rohini Chakravarthy is a Venture Investor with 15+ years’ experience and a technology background spanning over two decades.
As a general partner at NGP Capital, she leads the Intelligent Enterprise investment area. Previously, Rohini was an investing partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), where she led software, systems and technology investments, sat on 13 boards, and nurtured several companies to successful exits. She also held investment and corporate development leadership roles at Intel Capital and Cisco, was co-founder and CEO of a startup, Inksedge, and started her career as a design engineer at Bay Networks.

Rohini received an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an MS from Case Western Reserve University and a B.Tech from IIT Madras. She is deeply involved in alumni giving as a Board Member of the IITM Foundation and a Dean’s Circle member at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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