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Hemant Taneja

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“It is a real privilege to support entrepreneurs that are leveraging innovation to build businesses that make a difference in society. Once in a while, I also moonlight as an entrepreneur to start a project (for-profit or not-for-profit) if it intrigues me. Lastly, I am very passionate about helping young technical minds embrace entrepreneurship as a lifestyle for having an impact.”

If you think Hemant’s background can help you develop an early-stage idea, or grow a more mature business, Submit Your Idea to him after reading our Elements of a Strong Business Plan.

As a Managing Director General Catalyst Partners, Hemant invests in early stage companies. His areas of special interest include disruptive energy solutions, and next generation mobile platforms.

Before joining General Catalyst in 2002, Hemant was founder and CEO of Isovia, a Boston-based mobile software and applications company that merged with JP Mobile in 2002, and was subsequently acquired by Good Technology in 2005. Hemant recently founded "Advanced Energy Economy", a non-profit organization focused on catalyzing regional energy innovation clusters across America. This work is based on the pioneering work that he did in founding the New England Clean Energy Council, which received an award from the Department of Energy. Hemant actively lectures at MIT and Stanford to inspire technical students on entrepreneurship as a vehicle for technical impact.

Hemant is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning an M.S. in Operations Research, an M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, a B.S. in Mathematics, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and a B.S. in Biology & Biomedical Engineering.

Board memberships

Clean Energy: ARC Energy, C12 Energy (Observer), CLEAResult, Mascoma, Modular Wind, Stion (Observer), and SunBorne Energy.
Information Technology Investments: Jumptap (Observer), Humedica, Sand9 and SynapDx,
Former board member of m-Qube (acquired by VeriSign in May 2006, Observer), SiteAdvisor (acquired by McAfee in April 2006) and Hunch (acquired by eBay in November 2011)