Harsh Shah

Past

• Marketing/Strategy Intern at Mahalo.com Inc
• Summer Analyst at Hercules Technology Growth Capital
• Summer Intern at Houlihan Lokey Howard and Zukin

• Research Assistant at UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management

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Education

• University of California, Los Angeles
• Universiteit Utrecht

Connections

77 connections

Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Websites

• My Blog

Harsh Shah’s Summary

Looking to work with hungry and creative people with the vision of disrupting industries.

I like nimble companies that can out execute.

Harsh Shah’s Experience

• Marketing/Strategy Intern

  Mahalo.com Inc

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  February 2008 — May 2008 (4 months)

  A human-powered search engine backed by Sequoia Capital, CBS, Newscorp, Elon Musk and Fred Wilson.

• Summer Analyst

  Hercules Technology Growth Capital

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; HTGC; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)

  Debt and equity investing in early and mid-stage companies in the technology, clean tech and the life sciences space.
  
  Some portfolio companies include: Hi5, Glam Media, Sling Media (acquired by EchoStar), Wild Tangent and Compete Inc. (acquired by TNS).

• Summer Intern

  Houlihan Lokey Howard and Zukin

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Investment Banking industry)

  June 2006 — August 2006 (3 months)

  Mergers and Acquisitions Group.

• Research Assistant

  UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  September 2005 — June 2006 (10 months)

Harsh Shah’s Education

• University of California, Los Angeles

  BA, Communication Studies, 2004 — 2008

  Activities and Societies:

  Sailing Team, Purple Tongue Society (Wine Club)

• Universiteit Utrecht

  Semester Abroad, Art History, 2006 — 2006

Additional Information

Harsh Shah’s Websites:

• My Blog

Harsh Shah’s Interests:

Sailing, Distance Running (SD '08), Social Entrepreneurship, Scuba Diving, Digital Media, Traveling, Wine, Art, Global Health

Harsh Shah’s Groups:

•    Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières member
•    Obama for America member

Harsh Shah’s Honors:

Top 15% of graduating class at UCLA

Harsh Shah’s Contact Settings

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