Vishal Verma

Managing Partner at Edgewood Ventures

Panellist

Vishal Verma is a General Partner at Edgewood Ventures, LLC. ( a single family office - www.edgewoodvp.com) and Redwood Collective, LLC. (a fund of funds for venture - www.redwoodcollective.net).

Vishal has invested in 17 top tier venture capital and private equity firms including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst, KPCB, 8VC and more. He has also holds stakes in over 20 private companies including Wiz, Andruil, Antropic, Glean, Mistral and more.

Vishal is a Senior Advisor to Honorable Dick Gephardt and Honorable Secretary Michael Chertoff on their International Strategy.

Vishal is also the founder of Sidebar Summit a leading networking platform based in Silicon Valley (www.sidebarsummit.com)

Vishal continues to be an active member of The Chicago Club and The Indus Entrepreneurs. Vishal is a member of the US India Cyber-security Track 1.5 Dialogue hosted by the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) and Observer Research Foundation (ORF).

Vishal is passionate about building strong education systems for our future. Vishal is an active member on the Board of Trustees of the University of California at Merced (Merced, California). Vishal is a member of the Leadership Council at the RFK Foundation and a member of Best Buddies.

While pursuing his MBA at Chicago Booth, Vishal founded the Hyde Park Angels to promote entrepreneurship in the Chicagoland area.

Vishal holds a B.S. degree in Marketing from Santa Clara University and a Masters of Business Administration in Finance from the University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business.