With a broad range of hands-on experience founding, funding and supporting early-stage technology companies, Alok Mittal joined Canaan in March 2006 to lead the firm’s India operations. In India, Alok focuses on investments in digital media and mobile companies, as well as innovators in managed software services.
Prior to Canaan, Alok was an entrepreneur and private investor, and was a founding member of Indian Angel Network (formerly, Band of Angels India). Committed to working hand-in-hand with entrepreneurs to build the next generation of successful Indian technology companies, Alok was instrumental in Canaan’s investments in BharatMatrimony, the world’s largest consumer Internet site for matrimonial services, and iYogi, which leverages the power of the Internet to offer high-quality, low-cost tech support to global consumers, and Cellcast, Asia’s leading participation content company.
Previously, Alok led the technology practice at Baring Private Equity Partners India, where he focused on investments in software services, BPO, the Internet and telecom. He was also co-founder of JobsAhead.com, a web-based recruitment business that was later acquired by Monster.com. Previously, he worked for Hughes Software Systems, the leading provider of telecom software and systems in India. He currently serves on the boards of Bharat Matrimony, Cellcast, iYogi and UnitedLex.
Alok earned a BE in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and a MS in computer science from UC Berkeley.
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