Somesh Dash joined Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) in March of 2005. He focuses primarily on later-stage and public market investments in software, infrastructure and technology-enabled services companies.

Prior to joining IVP, Somesh was an Analyst in the Corporate Finance Division of Credit Suisse's Technology Investment Banking Group. While at Credit Suisse, Somesh focused on strategic financing initiatives for a number of public and private technology companies. His responsibilities included analyzing and executing a variety of financings within the semiconductor, software, Internet, communications, and IT services verticals.

Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Somesh worked for Luxmi Capital, an early stage venture capital fund focused on digital media investments. He also worked for the Corporate Development Division of Sony Entertainment Television in Mumbai, India. His responsibilities included developing strategies for augmenting advertising revenues and establishing partnerships with leading Indian technology and media companies.

Somesh earned a B.S. in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.

Somesh is currently on leave at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.