Dinesh Maheshwari

Dinesh Maheshwari is a Humanist entrepreneur and Startup Advisor ( Groq, alt-r, Blumind, Prospera, Zinite etc). Dinesh brings over 3 decades of experience to the deep tech entrepreneurial space. He was part of the revolution in High Performance Compute systems in the mid-‘80s; was at the forefront of the EDA software revolution from late ‘80s to mid-‘90s solving NP-complete problems; was part of the revolution in optical communications and networking from late ‘90s to early 2000s, created new compute paradigms and memories for WAN/MAN networking systems in the late 2000s and early 2010s and enabled new solutions for machine learning starting late 2010s until recently. He has worked at 10 startups (3 of which he co-founded), has served on the Board of Advisors of several deep tech startups and was the founding partner of Silicon Catalyst (a seed-VC and incubator for semiconductor startups).

He has 104 published US patents in software, Optical communications, networking, general compute architectures, consumer devices, semiconductor materials/devices and machine learning.