Managing Partner at Prime Venture Partners (PVP) which is a Bangalore-based early-stage fund led by serial entrepreneurs Shripati Acharya, Sanjay Swamy, and Amit Somani. We are investing from our new fund which has a corpus of US $100M.We are a high conviction, high support investor. We believe in backing star teams with differentiated ideas. We go an inch-wide and a mile-deep both before and post our investments. We are focused on investing in disruptive product companies out of India. We bring a combination of first-hand entrepreneurial experience, operating expertise and meaningful capital. We are looking for:(1) Unique differentiated ideas that solve 'real' problems (no copycats please)(2) Powered by Technology and Product(3) Serving Big MarketsBefore PVP, I have held leadership roles for ~20 years in leadership roles at Makemytrip (NASDAQ: MMYT), Google, IBM Silicon Valley Labs and IBM Almaden Research Centre. I was a part of the leadership team that took Makemytrip public on NASDAQ in 2010. I was also the head of various teams focusing on search, mobile and advertisement products at Google. One of my products (the search-based keyword tool) won the Google founder's award. Prior to my role at Google, I was the Director for the Enterprise Search and Discovery business at IBM San Jose, California.I tweet actively @amitsomani and blog on LinkedIn.Key Global Awards:- Best Global Innovation Award in B2C category for RoutePlanner at PhocusWright Miami 2013- Part of team that eventually won Google Founder's Award for Search-based Keyword Tool (given less than 10 times in the history of Google) in 2010- Best Product Award for IBM's Search appliance across IBM Software Group (in 2007)- International Exposure - traveled to over 50 countries and worked with and managed folks in several countries (Silicon Valley, India, China, Japan, Germany, Israel, etc).- 8 Granted US Patents- M&A expertise through acquisitions including Venetica, iPhrase, FileNET, Ascential, Ixigo, HotelTravel and EasyToBook.
Listed skills include Product Management, E Commerce, Strategy, Start Ups, and 13 others.
