Vish Mishra

Vish Mishra is Venture Director at Clearstone Venture Parnters, where he focuses on deal flow, syndicate networking, portfolio company support and executive coaching. He has over 30 years of experience in the high tech industry including software, Internet, networking and telecommunications. He is a founder and served as a board member of Telera, a voice web infrastructure company which was sold to Alcatel for $140 million in 2002. Vish was also co-founder of Excelan (1983), which went public in 1987 and sold for $225 million in 1989. Vish sits or has sat on boards of venture-backed companies such as Abeama, Cofix, Onjibe, PostMedia Group, Quantros, Ramp Networks (sold to Nokia), SloMedia, Verano, and Xalted IP Networks. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Technology at Benares Hindu University, an MS in Electrical Engineering from North Dakota State University and an MBA from the University of Minnesota. He is an active Director and Charter Member of TiE.