Sharat Raghavan is a lecturer at the Haas School of Business. He also has held faculty positions at INSEAD and the National University of Singapore. His areas of focus include venture capital, financing contracts, and the application of data science to both public and private investing. Previously, Raghavan co-founded Ericsson Venture Partners, a venture capital fund backed by Ericsson and Merrill Lynch. He currently is working in the technology industry leading economic research for an internet marketplace.