Amish Parashar

Mr. Parashar is the CEO of Explorers’ Lab, a firm which works to understand, build, and fund technologies which disrupt and create industries.  

Mr. Parashar has been an inventor, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and university lecturer.  He was a founder and Partner at Yamaha Motor Ventures, the global investment and innovation office of Yamaha.  Mr. Parashar led the company’s first startup investments in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Autonomous Systems, Exoskeletons, Blockchain, and other strategically important areas.  As a Board Member or Board Observer for portfolio companies, he advised management on startup growth and technology commercialization while contributing to a the public company's global corporate strategy.  For this work, he was awarded a Top 100 Rising Star by Global Corporate Venturing (2017).  Prior to his Venture Capital roles, he was Director of Innovation at Triple Ring Technologies, a Silicon Valley based technology creation company.  

Mr. Parashar earned a Bachelor of Arts in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College, a Bachelor of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, and a Master of Science from the University of London.  He has held lecturing appointments at Stanford’s d.school, Dartmouth’s Thayer School, and Singularity University.  He has served on the Dean’s Council of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth and as a Fellow of the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego.   He routinely advises startups, public company innovation groups, and non-profit organizations.