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Satish Mugulavalli

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Founder and Managing Partner at Hissa
📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Satish Mugulavalli is the Founder and Managing Partner of Hissa Fund. With over 25 years of experience as a deep-tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist across Silicon Valley and India, he is focused on private markets. He holds a Bachelors Degree from SJCE, Mysore.

His career has been a journey from building hardware and software products to venture capital. He is driven by the mission to ensure that the equity and ownership employees and founders have in startups converts into tangible wealth, seeing firsthand the need for predictable, timely liquidity.

Unique fact: Satish founded Hissa Fund, which is Indias first dedicated fund focused on providing liquidity for Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs).

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Experience
8 Years
Current Role
Founder and Managing Partner
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Personality Overview

How Satish shows up

Friendly But Fast
Driven But Considerate
Decisive But Friendly

If they are convinced, they can become very strong champions for your product They have the unique ability to win both love and respect from their team (or outsiders) They combine a unique set of diverse traits where they are fast and friendly but can slow down to be thorough when needed

Priorities

Topics Satish cares about

ESOP Liquidity
He founded India's first fund dedicated to ESOP liquidity, aiming to help startup employees and founders realize the value of their equity faster.
Private Markets Evolution
He actively comments on the "unbundling and re-bundling of private markets, " indicating a focus on transforming how private assets are managed and traded.
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Career

Work history

1-2024
Founder and Managing Partner
Hissa
2-2019
Founder
Hissa
3-2017 - 4-2021
Venture Partner
YourNest Venture Capital
3-2019
Board Member
Lavelle Networks
4-2018
Board Member
Miko
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Media appearances

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Education
1989 - 1993
Bachelor's Degree
SJCE, Mysore
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