▶︎ Mr. Shankar Chandran serves as a Partner at Walden Catalyst. Over the last 23 years as a venture capitalist, he has supported more than 75 company founders, venture capital funds, and break-out technologies and products that have impacted the way people live, work, and play. 

As a partner at Walden Catalyst, Shankar works with an outstanding group of partners including Young Sohn, Lip-Bu Tan, Andy Kau, Roni Hefetz, Francis Ho and Nicolas Autret. Walden Catalyst Ventures focuses on early stage deep-tech (where there's a breakthrough in science or technology) and on data/AI infrastructure start-ups and founders. Shankar currently serves as a Director or Observer on the boards of Galileo, MindsDB, Ati Motors, VirtueAI, Voltron Data, Opaque Systems and 3DGS.

 Previously, he served as Senior Vice President, Managing Director, and Head at Samsung Catalyst Fund. He was also part of the founding team at Panorama Capital. Prior to Venture Capital, he has held various engineering, business development and management roles at Applied Materials, Inc., and has been granted eight patents as the primary inventor. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an M.S. in Materials Science from Arizona State University, and a Bachelor of Technology degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), India.