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Amit Somani

Managing Partner, Prime Ventures (Backing insightful entrepreneurs!)

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $4,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Managing Partner

    2015

    We typically invest in 6-8 companies per year. All partners work with all entrepreneurs for the first 12-18 months of the journey. As a firm, we have invested in over 40 companies in the last 9 years. What we offer: (1) We prefer to be the first institutional investor in your company so can be helpful as you build out your company. (2) All partners work actively with the entrepreneurs post-investment for 12-18 months post-investment. (3) We move quickly and deliberately, whether we invest or not. Even if we say no, we will give you 3 reasons why we are choosing to pass on the investment (knowing fully well that we can often be wrong). Some of our companies include WheelsEye, MyGate, KredX, Niyo, Happay, Sunstone, Quizizz and more. Please give us a call or drop us an email if we meet your criteria and you meet ours :) We would be delighted and privileged to play a part in your entrepreneurial journey!

  • Founding Angel

    2022

    The Nudge Institute is an action institute that works with governments, markets, and civil society to build resilient livelihoods for all. One of its main goals is to eliminate poverty in India by 2047.

2010 - 2016

  • Advisory Board Member

    2014 - 2016

  • Chief Products Officer

    2010 - 2014

    Delight travelers who want to research, plan and book travel online. MMYT is largest OTA in India and now listed on NASDAQ. Responsible for the next generation of the Makemytrip.com web site (also called 3.0), end to end P&L for several business including Hotels, Mobile; also own the Innovation initiatives, Content and User Experience.

2007 - 2010

  • Group Product Manager, Google AdWords Keyword Recommendations

    2009 - 2010

    Global responsibility for all keyword recommendations for Google's advertisers for Search (think SEM and a bit of SEO from the horse's mouth). One of the flagship products that I own is the Search-based Keyword tool (www.google.com/sktool). This tool is at the two key pieces of Google's business - Search & Ads. Read more about this tool at http://bit.ly/sbkt - This product won the Google Founders' Award (Given less than 10 times in the entire history of Google).

  • Head of Mobile Products, Asia-Pacific

    2008 - 2009

    Leading product management for Mobile Products for Asia-Pacific market for Google. Responsible for Product Strategy, Roadmap, and Business relationships for the region.

  • Product Management Head, Search, Consumer & Infrastructure

    2007 - 2008

    Leading Product Management for Web Search (http://www.google.co.in/), Consumer Applications including GMail, News, etc. and Infrastructure efforts for India market.

IBM Silicon Valley Lab

2001 - 2007

  • Director, Discovery Products

    2001 - 2007

    Director of Development for IBM's Discovery portfolio which includes our Search (OmniFind), Content Discovery (iPhrase acquisition) and Content Integration offerings. Responsible for WW engineering and product management for this portfolio.

  • Software Engineer

    1995 - 2001

    Software Engineering and Research in the areas of Data driven E-commerce applications, Peer-to-Peer architectures, Database Query and Transaction Processing and Database performance.