MNW: Mahesh Muralidhar, Phase One Ventures

MNW: Mahesh Muralidhar, Phase One Ventures
Mahesh Muralidhar, founder and CEO of Phase One Ventures.
Jacques Steenkamp
Mahesh Muralidhar is the chief executive and founder of Phase One Ventures, a venture capital firm supporting early-stage startups. He's been involved with steering companies such as Canva and Airtasker to success and has spent the last several years nurturing new startup talent in New Zealand. Muralidhar is married, and the couple have no children.I was born into a lower-middle-class family in India. My early childhood was in Singapore, where I moved from age two. My parents eventually moved from Singapore to France and then to t...

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