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Aparna Chaganty
Aparna is an early-stage investor in Bessemer’s India office where she focuses on cloud software (enterprise & SMB), internet marketplaces, and ML platforms.
Prior to joining Bessemer, she was a lead data scientist and product manager at Salesforce’s Infrastructure Analytics team in San Francisco. She also worked at Alcatel Lucent on transmitting internet data over cellular networks. Her research on Wireless Sensor networks has been published in IEEE & Springer.
She holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated as a Beyond Yourself Fellow. She also holds a Master’s in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications Engineering from IIITDM, Jabalpur.