ABOUT AKASH BHAT:

Akash Bhat features prominently on the investment and venture studio teams at Scrum Ventures, a VC firm investing between the US-Japan corridor.

He is a 0-1 person with prior experience founding and working at early-stage startups in India and the United States. Most recently, he was the Head of Operations at Mentorcam (YC S21).

Prior to Scrum, Akash worked at Aser Group, where he was part of the Strategy team helping launch and manage digital products and later part of the the investments team sourcing deals across media & entertainment verticals.

Before moving to the US, he co-founded a non-profit in India called Shiksha, led community & operations at NASSCOM 10K Startups, and was the first-hire at a food delivery startup called Dazo, where he led business development and partnerships.

He’s an alumnus of PES Institute of Technology (BLR) & Columbia Univ. (NYC).