Abhi Mukherjee

Partner at CIVC

Speaker

As a seasoned Corporate Strategy Executive turned successful Tech Entrepreneur and now a Venture Capitalist, Abhi, a Lifelong Learner and Experimenter, is passionate about nurturing the innovation ecosystem and ushering the next wave of digital revolution by harnessing advancements and emerging trends in the arena of Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Technologies, and other frontier science that are - Expediting The Inevitable! Abhi has been a featured speaker at several events and conferences.

Across the spectrum of 28 years of his industry experience in senior business executive and technology leadership roles at Infosys (Rev: $20B), Wipro (Rev: $11B) and UST (Rev: $2B), Abhi has orchestrated and managed over $1.2 Billion in Enterprise Innovation and Digital Strategy engagements with Fortune 500 and G2K behemoths. He was also the founding member of UST's Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) team that gave 9X in 5 years. In 2021, Abhi sold his Enterprise AI startup, Nirveda Cognition, for an allstock deal. This diverse experience makes Abhi an innovation evangelist focused on growth strategy.

As a Partner at CerraCap Impact Venture Capital (CIVC), Abhi is on a mission to identify and foster avant-garde ideas rooted in ethos, pathos and logos to drive business success and community well-being. Abhi firmly believes the fabric of a resilient organization focuses on disruptive industry offerings and innovative digital solutions, while creating an impact that transforms lives by aligning - people, purpose and profit. Abhi finds himself at the
intersection of innovations and investments to support, advise and mentor category-defining entrepreneurs that are industrializing Purposeful Innovation and orchestrating Sustainable Value Creation.

Abhi has been serving the coveted New Mexico LEEP's Strategic Leadership Council as their Advisor to drive collaboration between Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories. Apart from this, he has been serving as a Board Member for several portfolio companies across all funds. Currently, Abhi is also an Advisor to the HBR Advisory Council.

Abhi holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India, and has completed his Executive Education at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His sphere of
influence ranges from enterprise businesses to startups and carries a distinct global footprint of ecosystem across five continents.