Pradeep Tagare Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Woodinville, Wa, Us

Buffalo, Ny, Us

London, London, Gb

Leading the Venture Capital investments team at National Grid Partners, the CVC arm of National Grid, one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the world operating in the UK and US. National Grid Partners invests in enterprise technology companies that disrupt the energy business to create a clean, fair, affordable, and safe energy future. Our portfolio includes:1TouchAporeto (acquired by Palto Alto Networks $150M)AutoGridCarbon LighthouseClimaCellCNI GuardCopper LeafDragosEdcastGo CardlessLeapOmnidianPixeom (acquired by Siemens)Risk IQSitetrackerSparkcognitionUniphoreUrbintas well as the following Fund investmentsEnergy Impact PartnersJerusalem Venture PartnersIQ CapitalIQ Capital Growth

New York, Ny, Us

Huntington Beach, California, Us

Palo Alto , California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Foster City, Ca, Us

Cambridge, Cams, Gb

Menlo Park, California, Us

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

New York, New York, Us

Redwood City, California, Us

Venture Capital investments in Indian technology companies in the enterprise software and consumer internet sectors. Stage and $$ agnostic. Responsible for entire lifecycle of investments from sourcing to exit. Additional responsibilities included marketing and brand promotion of $250M Intel Capital Technology Fund in India. Key spokesperson for Intel Capital India at many industry forums in India and Asia.Notable Portfolio and Board representation:• PayTM / One97 (Series B): Mobile Internet payments / commerce. $2.5B investment by Alibaba• Intrasoft Technology (Series A, IPO): e-commerce• What’s On India (Series B, M&A by Tribune Media): Digital TV Program Guide• WSO2(Series A, secondary sale): Sri Lanka/US company providing Enterprise Middleware SW• Nxtgen Datacenter(Series A): Greenfield datacenter and cloud services• Peerpetuuiti(Series A): Software platform for automating data centers• Hungama.com(Series A): Digital Media for consumers• Healthkart.com: (Series B) Healthcare e-commerce• 1mg.com (Series A): Consumer healthcare app for Rx, Patient / Lab appts.• Global Talent Track(Series A): Vocational Education• Grameen Intel Social Business: CSR investment; JV between Intel /Grameen Co-investors included Sequoia, Nexus, SAIF, Bessemer, Omidyar, Kae, Helion, Cisco, etc.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Responsible for early/mid stage Venture Capital investments in software companies in Silicon Valley. Pioneered investment strategy and investments in Open Source Software companies Investment Portfolio and Board representation in Silicon Valley• JBoss(Series A, M&A by RedHat $420M): Open Source Enterprise Application Server• MySQL(Series D, M&A by SUN $1B): Open source database• WSO2(Series A; secondary sale): Enterprise middleware for Services Oriented Architecture• Centeris(Series A, M&A by EMC $32M): Enterprise migration tools• Zend(Series C, M&A by RogueWave): PHP language tools• SpikeSource(Series A, Asset sale): Open source integration stack• CollabNet(Series C, Asset sale): Software development tools• BlackDuck(Series A): Open Source Software development toolsCo-investors included Matrix, Accel, Kleiner Perkins, Index, Norwest, Highland, Fidelity, IgnitionStarted a seed-stage accelerator to focus on open source opportunities in emerging countries

Xdrive was the largest online storage company (10 Million users) for consumers and enterprises. • As a member of the executive team, was involved in various corporate activities such as product and sales strategies, sales calls, funding activities, etc. • Business Unit was responsible for Product Strategy, Pre-sales, Marketing Requirements, Product roadmaps, Pricing, Collateral, etc. for Xdrive’s enterprise software product lines – storage management and interactive voice/wireless content notification and transactions

Margate Beach, Queensland, Au

Founded Yopa with funding from Dr. Pehong Chen, CEO BroadVision. Yopa developed a mobile Push platform, which enabled users to receive information and complete transactions from Web, Voice, and Wireless devices. • Initiated and drove the acquisition of Yopa by Xdrive TechnologiesAs VP Product Management• Managed a group to define product, provide competitive analysis sales support• Initiated sales leads and traveled extensively in Europe on sales calls to companies such as British Telecom, Telenor, Bertelsmann, Orange, etc.As Founder and CEO• Raised $7M in venture funding in two rounds (DynaFund Ventures/Sun America)• Grew the company to 20 employees including sales and marketing• Was responsible for all operations of starting and running a software startup

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Healtheon was the first company to address the healthcare industry in the US with Internet solutions. It was later acquired by WebMD.• Responsible for deployment of Healtheon’s software at large insurance companies • Worked with physicians at Healtheon to define the first version of their Healthcare portal. Site was later chosen as the default Health channel for Yahoo and later merged with WebMD• Participated in business model development, and site promotion strategies

Redwood City, California, Us

• Product definition, sales support, technical implementation, and deployment of online banking, and e-commerce applications with Global 1000 clients. • Defined BroadVision’s first financial product, which was co-developed with Europe’s 2nd largest bank. This product line accounted for nearly 50% of revenues 2 years after launch. Also defined deployment strategy including configuration, support services, etc. • Participated in BroadVision’s IPO in June 1996

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Developed advanced distributed computing software to increase test productivity of Intel's hardware components; tools resulted in decreasing test time from weeks to days• Headed the technical team to evaluate Object Databases. Recommendation resulted in Intel participating ($2M) in Series D funding of the leading vendor, Object Design Inc.

Inference was the leader in Artificial Intelligence technologies in the early 90s. • Developed infrastructure software for Artificial Intelligence applications targeting financial services and retail industries• Assisted in the design of an Object-Oriented Programming Language (similar to Java) for rule engines

Kauffman Fellow, Venture Capital

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Beee, Electrical Engineering