Nitesh Banta

Nitesh Banta is Co-founder & CEO at B12, Angel Investor at Stellar Capital, Co-founder & Advisor at Rough Draft Ventures, Advisor & Founding Team Member at Getaround. He focuses on investments in early-stage technology businesses. His areas of special interest include financial services, enterprise IT, consumer services and new media. Before joining GC, Nitesh was the Founder and CEO of Summer Workation, a social enterprise matching teachers with enriching summer opportunities. He has extensiveexperience in education and online media, including work with the Connecticut State Department of Education, the Greek Ministry of Education, Teach for America and The Gates Foundation. Nitesh previously worked on a number of education and business strategy consulting cases as an associate at The Parthenon Group. Prior to that he worked with the Customer Insights and Business Analytics team at Google. Nitesh is a graduate of Harvard University, earning a B.A. in Social Studies and Singularity University where he was on the founding team of Getaround, a peer-to-peer car sharing company.