Sumant Mandal has incubated more than 25 companies, often staying involved through to acquisition or IPO, and built two Bay Area incubators, The Hive and The Fabric, focused on AI, blockchain, cloud, and infrastructure technology. He has also invested in India's digitization for over a decade, serves on the board of the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, and has a track record of early infrastructure investments that led to acquisitions by companies like VMware, Cisco, and EMC.