Born in Nairobi to Indian parents and raised across Africa, India, and the U.S., Jalak Jobanputra brings a cross-continental perspective to venture investing, consistently reading innovation from the periphery in and backing local founders in emerging markets who understand the pain points of legacy infrastructure firsthand. She has built her career by being early to major technology waves—from wireless spectrum in 1996 to Bitcoin as foundational infrastructure for global money movement—and focuses her fund thesis on Interpretative Intelligence, investing in tools that make data more human and reduce the time people spend interacting with technology. Born in Nairobi to Indian parents and raised across Africa, India, and the U.S., Jalak Jobanputra brings a cross-continental perspective to venture investing, consistently reading innovation from the periphery in and backing local founders in emerging markets who understand the pain points of legacy infrastructure firsthand. She has built her career by being early to major technology waves—from wireless spectrum in 1996 to Bitcoin as foundational infrastructure for global money movement—and focuses her fund thesis on Interpretative Intelligence, investing in tools that make data more human and reduce the time people spend interacting with technology.