Deepak was part of the team that created and operated the CITRIS Foundry deep tech accelerator at UC Berkeley, then spun out to form Blue Bear Ventures specifically to commercialize the frontier technologies and talent they saw there. He serves as Startup Director, Lecturer, and Startup Leadership Coach at UC Berkeley Haas, positioning him as an embedded leadership coach to academic spinouts rather than just an external investor. Deepak was part of the team that created and operated the CITRIS Foundry deep tech accelerator at UC Berkeley, then spun out to form Blue Bear Ventures specifically to commercialize the frontier technologies and talent they saw there. He serves as Startup Director, Lecturer, and Startup Leadership Coach at UC Berkeley Haas, positioning him as an embedded leadership coach to academic spinouts rather than just an external investor.