Ex-Facebook exec Kirthiga Reddy becomes first female investing partner at SoftBank’s Vision Fund
Kirthiga Reddy, a former executive with Facebook, has taken the role and, in doing so, she becomes the first female investing partner with SoftBank’s Vision Fund team
She will be based in San Carlos, Silicon Valley.
Reddy spent eight years at Facebook, mostly as managing director for its business in India and Southeast Asia before a two-year stint in the U.S. leading global partnerships.
In her new role, she will work closely with Deep Nishar, senior managing partner at SoftBank Investment Advisors who is located in the Bay Area and was previously an exec at Google and LinkedIn .
Reddy said her focus will be frontier technologies such as AI, robotics, health, bio engineering, IoT and more.
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