Shaunish Mookerji stands out among venture investors for staying hands-on with data himself, building projects like a full analytics pipeline on Olist data using dbt and DuckDB and running text analysis on customer reviews to find the real causes of churn, a technical habit that traces back to his Georgia Tech research work on application-aware computing. He also brings a cross-border view to his role at Silicon Road Ventures, which has a presence in both Atlanta and Mumbai, giving him more of an ecosystem-connecting role than a typical sector-focused investor.