Deep Nishar, formerly an Americas-focused senior managing partner at SoftBank’s Investment Advisers subsidiary, has announced his plans to leave the parent firm at the end of this year.

Dipchand ‘Deep’ Nishar has revealed he will leave telecommunications and internet group SoftBank’s fund management subsidiary SoftBank Investment Advisers (SBIA) at the end of 2021.

SBIA hired Nishar as a senior managing partner of Americas in 2015 to help the corporate identify and support developers of enterprise software, healthcare and frontier technologies through its Vision Funds.

Nishar has been involved in investments in some three dozen companies including 10x Genomics, Automation Anywhere, Cohesity and Collective Health.

Edison Fu

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