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SANAT RAO

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Sanat Rao is a venture capital investor and M&A executive with 20 years of experience across investments,M&A, strategy,consulting,business development and operational roles.Sanat started his career as a chip design engineer at Intel where he was a member of the Pentium IV and Core microprocessor design teams.He has held several operational roles at Intel and led Intel's $100M embedded & IOT business in emerging markets covering India,Latin America and South East Asia.Sanat started his investing career at Intel Capital,where he held roles on both the investment and corporate development teams and led/supported transactions including PCCW (HK: IPO) and Infineon ($1.4B M&A).He was a partner and founding member at iSPIRT, where he led 12 M&A transactions in the Indo-US corridor.Most recently, Sanat was a venture partner at IDG Ventures India and led investments in the fintech, SaaS and AI/ML space. He also led IDG Ventures exit activities via secondary sales and M&A. Sanat is a founding partner at Shyn Capital,a quant fund focused on the blockchain and digital asset space.Sanat holds BS & MS degrees in Computer Engineering,an MBA degree and has been a visiting faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.He is currently a visiting faculty at the Duke Fuqua School of Business where he co-teaches classes in venture capital and strategy for the MBA and EMBA programs.