Prashant Shukla

Prashant is a Partner at Origin Ventures, joining the firm as Senior Associate in May 2017 and becoming partner in July 2021. He serves as a board director for Origin portfolio companies BlackCart and Hammoq and board observer for 15Five, Blueboard, Glimpse, Everee, Pronto, Measured Insurance, and Trala.

Prashant started his career at Bain & Company. During his time at Bain, he advised telecom, healthcare, & education clients, but spent most of his time on a large technology client dealing with strategic questions around emerging technologies.

After Bain, he joined San Francisco-based startup Metromile in 2012 as the first product manager, building a pay-per-mile auto insurance product. Prashant helped scale the company to over three hundred employees as it took in over $200m in venture capital financing.

Prashant holds an MBA and MPP from the University of Chicago, and undergraduate degrees in Economics, Business, and Environmental Economics & Policy from the University of California at Berkeley.