Abhishek Lahoti

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Abhishek Lahoti is the head of platform at Highland Europe, the growth-stage venture capital firm based in London and Geneva. Hired in 2023 as the first person in the role, he runs the firm's network of advisors and operating experts, helping portfolio companies with senior hiring, US expansion and business development.

Lahoti spent the previous decade in operating and platform roles in Silicon Valley and Europe. He was VP of Business Development and head of Sapphire Ventures' International Centre of Excellence until 2023, where he supported European founders entering the US market. Before Sapphire he spent close to seven years at Dropbox in enterprise solutions architecture and distribution partnerships, and earlier worked in sales engineering at Thismoment and as an optimisation manager at Adobe.

He also angel-invests in early-stage companies including CLIDE and CreditEnable and advises portfolio operators on go-to-market. Born and raised in Ohio, he holds a BA in economics and psychology from Northwestern University and is now based in London.