Pankaj Mitra

Biography

Pankaj Mitra is a partner in Bessemer’s Bangalore office. He is primarily focused on investments in enterprise tech, AI, and cybersecurity.

With more than 25 years of experience, Mitra joined Bessemer after serving on Cisco’s corporate development team, where he led investments and M&A activity for the global customer experiences portfolio and for India over seven years. His investments at Cisco included Fiddler (AI observability), Uniphore (contact center AI) and Whatfix (digital adoption). Previously, he worked at Infosys in a similar role and was part of the founding team for its $500 million innovation fund, investing in companies such as Ideaforge (NSE: IDEAFORGE) and Whoop.

Earlier in his career, Mitra helped launch VMware’s first cloud services as a product manager and was a management consultant at Deloitte.

Mitra holds a degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.