Ashwin Shashindranath

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Biography

Mr. Ashwin Shashindranath serves as Board Observer at 6K. He served as a Board Observer at Tomorrow.io. He serves as a Partner at Energy Impact Partners. He serves as a Board Member at KCRise Fund & 6K and Metafuels. He served as Managing Director at Evergy Ventures. He serves as a Board Observer at ClimaCell. He served as the Board Observer of Omnidian. He also serves as a mentor and advisor for Techstars Kansas City. Previously, he worked in the investment team at OpenAir Equity Partners. Prior to that, he served as the Head of Mobile Advertising at OneLouder Apps. He served as a Board Observer at Claroty and Adaptive. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Missouri Institute of Science and Technology. He brings a unique combination of 15 years of investment experience and hands-on entrepreneurial experience at startups. He looks for and works with entrepreneurs who are genuinely excited about being agents of change in the climate tech landscape. Prior to joining EIP, he was a Managing Director in Macquarie Capital's Green Investment group leading venture capital and growth equity investments in energy and mobility transition. Prior to Macquarie, he was at Evergy Ventures, the venture capital arm of Evergy Inc (An investor-owned regulated electric utility) leading over a dozen successful investments in companies focused on Digital Transformation, Energy Storage, and Distributed Energy Resources. He is a Kauffman Fellow (class 24) and serves as a mentor for Techstars Kansas City and Techstars - Heritage Group programs. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Missouri Institute of Science and Technology.