Shrikant Lohokare

Dr. Shrikant Lohokare is the President of DeepTech Ventures and Advisory and the Chief Executive Officer of the Open Source FPGA Foundation. He previously held senior executive positions at Fortune 500 semiconductor corporations Lam Research and KLA, and served as the Chief Executive Director of the Global Semiconductor Alliance. As a General Partner at 21Ventures, he managed investments for an early stage venture capital fund with $300 million in assets under management. Lohokare also cofounded the IoT startup Tantiv4, where he remains on the board following its acquisition, and established a biomedical innovation center anchoring a 440 acre healthcare hub at the Medical Center of Americas. He holds a doctorate from the University of Illinois and completed management training at Stanford University. His current focus centers on commercializing frontier technologies across the semiconductor, edge computing, and biomedical sectors.