Kishen Mangat is a General Partner at Boulder Ventures who co-founded BroadHop (acquired by Cisco) and later served as VP/GM for Mobility & Automation at Cisco, giving him rare experience both building telco software companies from scratch and running large-scale 5G and network automation businesses inside a major equipment vendor. He leads Boulder Ventures' enterprise 5G investment strategy and sits on boards of companies like Spectrum Effect and ng-voice, focusing specifically on cloud-native telco software and next-generation networking rather than taking a generalist venture approach. Kishen Mangat is a General Partner at Boulder Ventures who co-founded BroadHop (acquired by Cisco) and later served as VP/GM for Mobility & Automation at Cisco, giving him rare experience both building telco software companies from scratch and running large-scale 5G and network automation businesses inside a major equipment vendor. He leads Boulder Ventures' enterprise 5G investment strategy and sits on boards of companies like Spectrum Effect and ng-voice, focusing specifically on cloud-native telco software and next-generation networking rather than taking a generalist venture approach.