Sumanta Pal

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Experiences

Key Responsibilities: technology scouting, deal sourcing, open innovation, evaluation of investment proposals, business plans, market research, due diligence, portfolio management, controlling, operation support and strategic support for portfolio companies, preparation of contracts, managing intellectual property rights, assisting in fund raising and investor relationship.
Working on cool new concepts and projects.
Investment manager, in a fast growing venture capital firm with a one-of-its-kind fund OSTF (Open Sky Technologies Fund) in collaboration with ESA (European Space Agency) commercializing space technologies on Earth based applications.

Participating board meetings, and participating actively in company operations, strategy decisions and assisting in hiring key management.
Member of the Board of Directors (voting) at semafora systems GmbH, a 'Big Data' company, and a leading provider of products, solutions and services in the area of semantic technologies

Key responsibilities include brainstorming, legal and regulatory framework, technology selection, market research, competitor analysis, project planning, marketing and advertising, workflow definition, defining process, trademark registration, and talent acquisition.
Currently managing outsourced developers to launch the platform soon, campaign acquisitions and marketing.
CTO (Chief Technology Officer), in a financial startup i.e. crowd-funding firm leveraging on the VC experience and offering a range of financial instruments (quasi-equity, lending and donations) to the crowd.

Participating board meetings, and participating actively in company operations, strategy decisions and assisting in hiring key management.
Member of the Board of Directors (voting) at iPharro Media GmbH, a media content analytics company. Currently engaging on a hands-on basis with C-level management.

Participating board meetings on a non-voting capacity and engaging with C-level management on a hands-on basis
Board Guest (non-voting) at iOpener Media GmbH, an innovative real-time content provider for applications in real-time gaming and second screen media applications.

Currently assuming the responsibilities of deal sourcing, technology scouting, market research, due diligence and portfolio management.
Assisting in fund raising activities and investor relations.
Junior Investment manager, in a fast growing venture capital firm with a one-of-its-kind fund OSTF (Open Sky Technologies Fund) in collaboration with ESA (European Space Agency) commercializing space technologies on Earth based applications.

Completed the project successfully by providing a fixture modification that increased the productivity and allowed better truing of the job.
Extended the scope of project with the application of the methods of TPM (Total Productivity Management) and TQM (Total Quality Management).
Project trainee and team leader of a group for productivity and quality improvement of aerospace components one of the largest privately-held diversified industrial corporations in India.

Education

Space sciences

Mechanical Engineering

Skills

Interests

Investment Manager (Venture Capital)