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

Founder Interview: Gaurav Bhattacharya. Co-founder and CEO, InvolveSoft

Gaurav Bhattacharya acknowledges he didn’t make the best impression on his co-founder, Saumya Bhatnagar, when they met in a high school coding class in New Delhi. Out of 160 students,...

Founder Interview: Susanne Mitschke, co-founder and CEO, MindMate

Santa Monica-based MindMate has come a long way since launching in co-founder Susanne Mitschke’s two-bedroom Glasgow apartment in early 2015. Less than four years later, the popular healthy living...

Founder Interview: Alex Canter, Co-founder and CEO, Ordermark

If Alex Canter’s last name sounds familiar, it’s because his family owns the iconic deli of the same name that has been serving up matzo ball soup and pastrami sandwiches...

How to Become a Midas VC: Just The Data

By William Hsu The annual Forbes Midas list just came out. Which reminded me that I put together the following data for last years list for a blog post...

Encyclopedias are moving to the blockchain. Everipedia, joined by Wikipedia’s co-founder, is leading the charge.

Mucker portfolio company Everipedia, the “encyclopedia of everything,” announced today that it is creating the world’s first encyclopedia on the blockchain, and that Wikipedia co-founder Dr. Larry Sanger has joined...

5 Lessons for Startups from Edison’s Invention of the Phonograph

by Erik Rannala Real innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum, a lesson that the famed inventor Thomas Edison understood better than most. Throughout his life, Edison revealed that great ideas...