Pulakesh Mukherjee

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Imperative Science Ventures

Role: Associate

Site: CDL-Toronto

Stream: Matter

Pulakesh Mukherjee is co-founder and managing partner at Imperative Science Ventures. Before Imperative, Pulakesh spent 10 years at BASF Venture Capital sourcing and executing investments in the energy, agriculture, chemical, and industrial sectors. During that time, he served as a director or observer on the boards of early-stage technology companies. Prior to his role in venture capital, Pulakesh gained over 10 years of experience in international business development, sales, marketing, and chemical process scale-up while working at BASF. He serves on the NREL Investor Advisory Board and also on the advisory board of the Stanford Energy Club. Pulakesh has a PhD from Stanford University and a master’s from IIT Kanpur, India. He has published in peer-reviewed journals and has co-authored more than 15 patents.