Deep Nishar
Managing Director and Partner @ General Catalyst
Mountain View, United States
Deep Nishar is a Series A investor at General Catalyst in Mountain View focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Deep Nishar is based out of Mountain View, California and is the Managing Director and Partner of General Catalyst. Deep previously worked at SoftBank as a Senior Vice President. Deep Nishar attended Harvard Business School, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Indian Institutes of Technology, Kharagpur. Deep Nishar has been receivedGoogle Founders Award in their career.
- Total investments:
- 45
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 58%
Last updated:
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Industries Deep Nishar invests in
Stages Deep Nishar invests in
Countries Deep Nishar invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $600k–$20M
- Series A
- $5.7M–$100M
- Series B
- $32M–$412M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 18 (40%)
- Software 15 (33%)
- Information Technology 11 (24%)
- Machine Learning 10 (22%)
- SaaS 6 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 9 (20%)
- Seed 8 (18%)
- Series B 8 (18%)
- Series D 5 (11%)
- Series C 4 (9%)
Country
- United States 30 (67%)
- India 3 (7%)
- Canada 1 (2%)
- Singapore 1 (2%)
- Switzerland 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Modular
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Modular provides an AI infrastructure platform designed for GPU portability and unparalleled performance in AI workloads. The platform features serverless inference endpoints, fine-tuning services, and training clusters to simplify the journey from AI development to production. Modular offers solutions for high-speed LLM serving and cross-hardwarestack management for NVIDIA and AMD environments. | $250M / Series C / Sep 24, 2025 | |
Tahoe Therapeutics
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Tahoe Therapeutics develops AI-powered tools to simulate human cell responses and guide drug discovery. It operates a platform called Mosaic that produces large-scale single-cell datasets detailing how drug molecules interact with diverse patient cells, with initial applications in oncology. It open-sources its Tahoe-100M dataset, comprisinghundreds of millions of single-cell profiles, to train AI models that build virtual cell models for therapeutic insights. A recent funding round enabled the creation of an even larger dataset, targeting one billion cell datapoints and one million drug-patient interactions, designed to fuel next-generation precision medicines | $30M / Series A / Aug 11, 2025 | |
Verkada
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Verkada builds modern security solutions that help enterprises run safer, smarter buildings. Our mission: Modernize the world of enterprise building security.Verkada’s enterprise security solution combines easy to install security cameras, environmental sensors, alarms and access control with intelligent, cloud-based software—all in a scalable,user-friendly system. More than 7800 organizations, including 40 Fortune 500 companies, use Verkada to protect people and assets, secure facilities, and gain new insights that improve the efficiency of their operations. Verkada’s vision is to be the operating system that runs every building in the world.The company was founded by computer scientists and security experts from Stanford University, and Hans Robertson, the former co-founder and COO of Cisco Meraki. Verkada is headquartered in San Mateo, CA with offices in London and Sydney. | $200M / Series E / Feb 19, 2025 | |
Nurix AI
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Nurix AI promotes data quality and integrity to provide accurate generative AI solutions. | $15M / Series A / Sep 24, 2024 | |
Iru
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Kandji is a next-generation Apple device management platform for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS. The company builds a sophisticated zero-touch device management solution to help larger companies manage their fleet of Apple devices, including keeping them in compliance with a particular set of rules. The company was founded in 2018 and isheadquartered in San Diego, California. | $100M / Series D / Jul 17, 2024 | |
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Modular
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Modular provides an AI infrastructure platform designed for GPU portability and unparalleled performance in AI workloads. The platform features serverless inference endpoints, fine-tuning services, and training clusters to simplify the journey from AI development to production. Modular offers solutions for high-speed LLM serving and cross-hardwarestack management for NVIDIA and AMD environments. | $100M / Series A / Aug 24, 2023 | |
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Modular
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Modular provides an AI infrastructure platform designed for GPU portability and unparalleled performance in AI workloads. The platform features serverless inference endpoints, fine-tuning services, and training clusters to simplify the journey from AI development to production. Modular offers solutions for high-speed LLM serving and cross-hardwarestack management for NVIDIA and AMD environments. | Series A / Aug 24, 2023 | |
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Modular
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Modular provides an AI infrastructure platform designed for GPU portability and unparalleled performance in AI workloads. The platform features serverless inference endpoints, fine-tuning services, and training clusters to simplify the journey from AI development to production. Modular offers solutions for high-speed LLM serving and cross-hardwarestack management for NVIDIA and AMD environments. | $100M / Series B / Aug 24, 2023 | |
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Georgiamune
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Georgiamune is a biotechnology company developing next-generation immunotherapeutics for cancer and autoimmune diseases. | $75M / Series A / Aug 09, 2023 | |
Adept AI
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Adept AI is a research and product AI lab that automates software processes for developers. It's similar to robotic process automation (RPA), or software robots that use a combination of automation, computer vision, and machine learning to automate repetitive tasks like filing forms and responding to emails. Adept is creating generalintelligence by allowing humans and computers to collaborate creatively. | $350M / Series B / Mar 14, 2023 | |
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Co-Investors
About General Catalyst
General Catalyst is a global investment firm that supports businesses at every stage, from seed to growth. It focuses on fostering resilience and advancing applied AI through its investments. The firm collaborates with entrepreneurs to provide capital and strategic guidance, enabling innovation across industries such as healthcare, fintech, andconsumer technology.
General Catalyst Contacts
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Christopher Kauffman
Principal
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Erin Schaefer
COO
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Genevieve Kinney
Principal
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Jeremy Goldstein
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Jim Baum
General Catalyst
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FAQ
What does Deep Nishar invest in?
Deep Nishar invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 45 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Deep Nishar's check size?
Deep Nishar typically joins rounds of $600k–$20M at Seed, $5.7M–$100M at Series A and $32M–$412M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Deep Nishar participates in.
When did Deep Nishar last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Deep Nishar closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 45 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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