Ishita Yadav

Investor

Based in Los Angeles, Ishita Gupta is an emerging investor interested in fintech and climate tech.

Prior to joining Mucker, Ishita worked at Forum Ventures and the Environmental Financial Consulting Group. She has also supported the United Nations clean energy ecosystem and served as a Student Ambassador for Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

Ishita has a background in Economics and Information Science at Cornell University. Ishita can be reached at ishita at mucker dot com.

Articles by Ishita Yadav

Our Investment In Emotive

Mucker’s first meeting with Emotive happened in November of 2018, though our initial investment wouldn’t happen until 18 months later in May 2020 when we would lead their Series A....

Save America. Start A Company.

This post originally appeared in Forbes. America recently celebrated Memorial Day to honor military men and women who paid the ultimate price to secure and defend liberty. In a country...

Why More Funding Won’t Magically Fix Your Startup

This post originally appeared in TechCrunch. Some entrepreneurs think that (more) money will solve all their company’s problems. It won’t. Like a teenager with a million-dollar allowance and an identity...

Thriving As A Post-Coronavirus Startup

This post originally appeared in Forbes. Startups are uncertain, high-risk exercises under any circumstance. When investors make available capital, it’s possible to mitigate some of that risk by extending runway...

COVID-19

Our team at Mucker is honored to support our portfolio through the unprecedented set of challenges facing the global community with COVID-19. Here is a compilation of products, services, and...

Venture Capital for the Rest of Us

The seed from which Mucker grew came forth from the ripples of the Great Recession As the rest of the tech world flooded toward Silicon Valley in search of millions...