Yashwanth Prakash is a seasoned entrepreneur and business leader with over 15 years of experience in launching and scaling businesses in various technology industries. He has played leadership roles across product strategy, business operations, go-to-market planning, and more, with P&L responsibilities. Yashwanth is currently a Venture Partner and Advisor at MFV Partners, where he mentors various startups. He is also the Vice President at Mapped, where he leverages his extensive expertise in product strategy, GTM, financial planning, and corporate development.

Prior to his current roles, Yashwanth served as the Vice President of Operations and General Management at Smart Energy Water, where he led teams across sales operations, finance, GTM partnership, legal, service delivery, training, customer support, and compliance. He was also a Director of Strategy & Operations at Cisco and played a key leadership role in defining, planning, launching, and growing Cisco Kinetic IoT Edge SaaS product platform. Besides, Yashwanth co-founded and ran a successful VC funded technology startup, Snapbizz Cloudtech Pte Ltd, and scaled the business across 12 cities with a team of 100+. He has also worked at Qualcomm, where he managed and led strategic initiatives and corporate development activities, incubated Qualcomm Automotive infotainment platform (ADP) and spun it into a product BU that now generates over $100M in revenue.

Yashwanth's interests and skills include Smart Homes, IoT, Enterprise SaaS, Autonomous Machines, Computer Vision, and Applied AI. He is a mentor at Alchemist Accelerator and has over 7 patents approved or pending to his name. Yashwanth holds a Master's degree from Arizona State University and a Bachelor's degree from Bangalore University.