Pawan Deshpande

Pawan Deshpande is a Venture LP at Stage2 Capital based in Boston, United States. He previously served as the Founder and CEO of Curata, a content marketing software startup that he successfully scaled to 50 employees and over 1,000 customer deployments, including 20 percent of the Fortune 100. Following his tenure at Curata, Deshpande held product leadership roles managing artificial intelligence initiatives at high-growth technology companies Scale AI and Domino Data Lab. His early career included engineering positions at Microsoft and Google, where he secured patents in machine translation and social networking. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from MIT, where he received departmental awards for his thesis work. Deshpande currently focuses on venture investing and advising B2B startups, leveraging his extensive background in natural language processing, machine learning, and go-to-market strategy.