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Mishra is a Venture Director at Clearstone Venture Partners. He was listed as one of 51 most influential global Indian men. San Jose Mercury News listed him among the 10 most influential people in Silicon valley

A respected philanthropist, Mishra is dedicated to several social causes. He is the recipient of the prestigious Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation's Heritage Award and Asian Pacific American Leadership Institute's Civic Leadership award. He joined Clearstone in 2002 with over 30 years of leadership and management experience in the high tech industry including software, Internet, networking and telecommunications. Clearstone has nearly $700M in committed capital with notable portfolio companies like PayPal (eBay), Rubicon Project (RUBI) BillDesk (India), The Hive and The Fabric. Mishra prides himself on being a "mentor capitalist" who sits or has sat on boards of many venture-backed companies including Telera, Quantros, Novariant and CloudVolumes.

Described by the San Jose Mercury News as "Silicon Valley personified," Mishra came to the United States from India 47 years ago to attend North Dakota State University and then moved to Minneapolis for a job with Control Data. He moved to the Valley in the late 1970s, where he went to work for Amdahl and National Semiconductor and started organically building the kind of support network that TiE now tries to jump-start for entrepreneurs looking for help. He is a co-founder of Excelan, a networking company that sold in 1989 for $225 million, and then went on to launch a series of companies and sit on a long list of company boards.
Mishra is also a member of TiE, The Indus Entrepreneurs since inception and has served as president and global board of trustees and remains very active with TiE.

Mishra holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Benares Hindu University, and an MS in Electrical Engineering from North Dakota State University.