Arati Prabhakar
Venture Partner, U.S. Venture Partners
Arati Prabhakar is a venture partner at U.S. Venture
Partners in Menlo Park, California, where she focuses
on early-stage technology companies. From 1986 to
1993, Arati worked at the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency, initially as a program manager and
subsequently as director of the Microelectronics Technology
Office. In 1993, President Clinton appointed Arati
as the director of the National Institute of Standards
and Technology.
Arati Prabhakar then joined Raychem Corporation as
senior vice president and chief technology officer,
and she was subsequently vice president and then president
of Interval Research Corporation. Arati received her
B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University.
She received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and
a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the California Institute
of Technology. Arati began her career as a Congressional
fellow at the Office of Technology Assessment. She
is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers.
