Prime Venture Partners
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Throughout his career, be it as a business lead at Cisco or as a co‐founder of Snapfish, the world's largest photo site acquired by HP or at Transarc, which was acquired by IBM, Shripati has combined his passion to build great teams, an extraordinary desire to excel and a keen eye for spotting the tales. He is known for being astute with a razor sharp intellect and a Zen‐like devotion to data driven decision‐making.
Shripati has also worked alongside Mr. Nandan Nilekani on the UIDAI project. Having spent substantial parts of working career in the United States and India addressing worldwide markets, Shripati brings a global management perspective. His passion for Indian business was seeded when he interned for Boston Consulting Group in India and has grown through investments in and mentoring of Indian online startups over the last decade. Shripati enjoys the great outdoors and has hitchhiked through Europe and trekked the wind swept mountains of the Himalayas and the Andes.
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Prime Venture Partners
Prime Venture Partners is an early-stage VC fund led by Sanjay Swamy, Shripati Acharya & Amit Somani. The fund also has well-known serial entrepreneur, investor and Aadhaar volunteer, Raj Mashruwala, as a Partner Emeritus. Started in 2012 with the objective of bringing Silicon Valley style professionalism to venture investing and building world class companies out of India, Prime is often the first institutional investor in category-creating technology startups. With more than 25 companies in its portfolio, Prime is addressing a much-needed gap in the Indian startup ecosystem by bringing a combination of first-hand entrepreneurial experience, operating expertise and meaningful capital. With the addition of Ashish Gupta, Prime is looking to further boost its portfolio with early-stage investments in Fintech, SaaS, Enterprise, Healthcare, Education and Logistics.