GSV Ventures onboards PhysicsWallah’s Abhishek Mishra as partner

Abhishek Mishra, chief strategy officer at PhysicsWallah, joined the company four years ago

Venture capital firm GSV Ventures has onboarded PhysicsWallah’s executive Abhishek Mishra as partner.

He will cover GSV investments in the US and India, the VC firm said in a LinkedIn post. The IPO-bound edtech major is a portfolio company.

“We are thrilled to announce that Abhishek Mishra has joined GSV Ventures as our partner based in India. We have known and admired Abhishek since our first interactions with him in 2022 when he was at GSV’s leading portfolio company PhysicsWallah,” the post read.

Mishra, chief strategy officer at PhysicsWallah, joined the company four years ago. He was the head of finance operations at the fintech unicorn Slice.

GSV Ventures focuses on tech start-ups, primarily in the education and digital learning sector. The San Francisco-based firm counts some major edtech players among its portfolio, including Coursera, Class Dojo, Degreed, Outlier, Remind, Course Hero, Master Class, among others.

The development comes at a time when the edtech unicorn PhysicsWallah reportedly filed its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for an ₹4,600 crore initial public offering (IPO) via confidential filing route last month.

Besides, in notable shuffles in the VC and venture debt firms of India, Trifecta Capital onboarded its investor Saurabh Singh as partner in February.

In December last year, Elevation Capital roped in former Meta executive Krishna Mehra as partner to lead SaaS and AI investments for the fund.

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Published on May 1, 2025