The Making Of A Clearstone Venture Capitalist – with Sumant Mandal

Sumant Mandal, Funding, Hiring

I’ve known Clearstone Venture Partners for about 5 years and watched them help entrepreneurs think through and launch their businesses. Like Rahul Sonnad, who I met when he worked out of Clearstone’s offices while he created Geodelic, the location discovery app.

I invited Sumant Mandal to talk about how he went from being an entrepreneur who never heard of venture capital, to becoming the firm’s Managing Director. And to ask him about how Clearstone helps new tech companies launch and grow.

Sumant Mandal

Sumant Mandal is a Managing Director at Clearstone Venture Partners. He represents or has represented Clearstone on the boards of Ankeena Networks, DiVitas Networks, Geodelic (observer), Mimosa Systems (sold to Iron Mountain), Billdesk (India), Games2win (India), Apture, The Rubicon Project, ThisNext and Kazeon Systems (sold to EMC). Sumant initiated and is responsible for Clearstone’s investment activities in India.

 

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