Debanjan Mukherjee

Debanjan Mukherjee is an engineer, innovator and technologist. He has diverse background in consumer electronics, embedded software and mobile product development. At Apple, he co-invented force sensing multi-touch trackpad with haptic feedback which adds a new dimension to human-computer interaction. He also built the first prototype of Apple pencil. At Amazon, he led early development of sensor technologies for Amazon Go stores and built new category of internet connected consumer devices like Dash wand and Dash button, which simplify shopping. Currently he leads sensor and health technology development for consumer products at Google. Debanjan is an active angel investor with 1 in every 3 investments currently at $100M+ valuations. Notable investments: Instacart, Grubmarket, Triller, Flutterwave, Plastiq, Billiontoone. Debanjan received MS in electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and BTech in electronics from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He has 50+ US patents and 40+ pending. He enjoys learning new things, mentoring and playing with his kids.