Vish Mishra

Vish Mishra is a Venture Partner at Clearstone Venture Partners based in Silicon Valley, USA. At Clearstone, he focuses on deal flow and portfolio support for a firm that has deployed $700 million across 100 technology companies. Prior to venture capital, he spent four decades operating in the technology sector, serving as the CEO of five startups and co-founding Excelan in 1983. His executive career includes tenures as a Vice President at Novell following its $225 million acquisition of Excelan, and as an Executive Vice President at iPlanet, a joint venture between Sun Microsystems and AOL. He has also held board positions guiding multiple acquisitions, including Telera's $140 million sale to Alcatel and Ramp Networks' sale to Nokia. Mishra leverages his extensive operational background to mentor founders and invest in early-stage software, networking, and telecommunications enterprises.