PartnerLGT Impact Ventures
Mr. Mangat invests in – and enables operations for – sustainability enterprises across global markets. He is Senior Advisor to The Roda Group, a sustainability focused fund based in Berkeley, California. At Roda he enables portfolio companies to access new markets, sources of funding and exit opportunities.
Prior to Roda, Mr. Mangat was a Partner and member of the Investment Committee at LGT Impact Ventures. LGT Impact Ventures is the impact investment arm of LGT Bank, the world’s largest private asset manager. Prior to LGTIV, Mr. Mangat helped set up Omidyar Network (ON) in India, and was senior member of the founding team investing more than $100M in impact investments.
Mr. Mangat has led investments and enabled operations for the world’s leading sustainability enterprises – d.light (ON) and M-Kopa (LGTIV) – as well as several leading AgTech (e.g. Abhay Nutrition), FinTech (e.g. Aye Finance) and Healthcare (e.g. EyeQ; acquired by Japan’s Hoya Corp) impact investments both directly and via funds like SONG and SEAF.
Previous to Impact Investing, Mr. Mangat established the Indian operations for OATSystems, an MIT-spinoff RFID software company acquired by Checkpoint (NYSE: CKP) in 2008. Mr. Mangat has worked as an investment consultant for both The Carlyle Group’s Indian venture capital arm as well as California-based Swander Pace. He began his career as a clean-water R&D engineer at Osmonics, Inc. (acquired by GE Power).
Mr. Mangat holds an MBA from Kellogg, a Master of Engineering in Chemical Engineering from Cornell and a Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay, where he was a National Talent Scholar.
