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Hemant Mohapatra is an Indian poet writing in English. He is featured in the 2011 Best New Poets series distributed by University of Virginia Press.[1] His work has been published in some international journals such as Eclectica, BrinkLit, Asia Writes and the Paterson Literary Review as part of the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards series. Expressed his views on how India can become a leader in AI.[2][3] Hemant is a partner at Lightspeed India.[4] After graduating from IIT Bombay,[5] he reinvented himself several times as a hardware, then a software engineer, a product manager and later, a deal-maker for Google.[6]

He is also the winner of the second Srinivas Rayaprol Award [7] and the HarperCollins Poetry Prize. He is currently based in India.

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  1. ^ "Best New Poets: Best New Poets 2011 Final Fifty". 6 August 2011.
  2. ^ "India must choose: Import AI breakthroughs or create them, says Lightspeed's Hemant Mohapatra". India Times. 4 February 2025.
  3. ^ "'India needed to start yesterday': Venture capitalist urges India to act now to lead in AI". Business Today. 31 January 2025.
  4. ^ "Hemant Mohapatra - Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners". Bloomberg News. 30 August 2005.
  5. ^ "HEMANT MOHAPATRA". 31 January 2022.
  6. ^ "MoneyBall: Lightspeed India's Hemant Mohapatra Is Not Shy Of Chasing Down 'Compelling' Deals". 5 June 2018.
  7. ^ "Rayaprol prize announced". The Hindu. 12 October 2010.
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