Deep Nishar has departed from his SBIA senior managing partner role to help develop enterprise software, biotech and life sciences pipelines at the venture firm.

US-based venture capital firm General Catalyst has hired Dipchand ‘Deep’ Nishar, previously an Americas-focused senior managing partner at telecommunications and internet group SoftBank’s fund management subsidiary, SoftBank Investment Advisers (SBIA).

Nishar announced his intention to depart from SoftBank in September this year, having joined SBIA in 2015 to invest in enterprise software, healthcare and frontier technology developers on behalf of the corporate’s Vision Funds.

During his time working with the Vision Funds, Nishar led investments in portfolio companies including…

Edison Fu

Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.