Prashant Shah

Partner

2014

Monta Vista Capital is a VC that invests in early stage teams who have the domain and technical wherewithal to upheave enterprise markets. Small and nimble, the firm makes quick investment decisions and puts its deep network into action for the benefit of entrepreneurs we back.

Venture Partner

2020

Early stage venture capital firm focused on InsureTech

Managing Director

2013

TiE LaunchPad is an accelerator for enterprise-focused startups. Working with up to 8 startups at a time, TiE LaunchPad provides seed capital, dedicated mentorship, and TiE resources. As Managing Director, my role is to manage the fund that provides the capital, recruit great entrepreneurs to join the accelerator, and help them succeed by tapping into the deep TiE network. For more details, see www.tielaunchpad.com.

Board Observer

2012

Represent TiE Angels as a board observer. PubNub enables software developers to rapidly build and scale real-time apps by providing the cloud infrastructure, connections and key building blocks for real-time interactivity. Developers can build real-time apps like live dashboards and data streams, real-time collaboration, 2nd screen synchronization and machine-to-machine signaling for any device. With PubNub, developers can dramatically reduce the cost, complexity and time to deliver real-time experiences.

Steering Committee

2010

TiE Angels is an angel investment group comprised of Silicon Valley TiE charter members. As a part of the steering committee, I helped launch this group that successfully began investing from its onset. See www.tiesv.org for more information.

Head of TiE Angels

2013 - 2018

Co-chair TiE Angels, the angel forum at TiE Silicon Valley. This group consists of over 150+ active angels with investments in enterprise, mobile, energy, medical devices and some consumer companies. For details and to apply, see www.tieangels.com.

Member, Board of Directors

2012 - 2016

Director and Charter Member Chair for TiE Silicon Valley chapter. Since being elected to this position, I have helped TiE Silicon Valley successfully recruit and increase the number of charter members at our chapter by 50%.

Board of Directors

2011 - 2013

(Acquired by VMware, September 2014) Formerly known as SnapVolumes, CloudVolumes was founded in early 2011 by virtualization, security and datacenter luminaries from VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, Symantec, RSA, Sun (Oracle) and Virident to provide IT with new enterprise class solutions for instant-workload management that takes full advantage of virtualization, supports legacy applications, eliminates the need for re-architecting or rewriting existing software, and works with existing policies and management solutions in datacenter and clouds by virtualizing everything above the OS. The company is headquartered in Los Altos, California. For more information, visit http://www.cloudvolumes.com.

Chair, Board of Trustees

2007 - 2011

Astia - formerly the Women's Technology Cluster - is a community of experts committed to building women leaders and accelerating the funding and growth of high-potential, women-led technology start-ups. As a Member of the Board of Trustees, I help guide the organization in achieving its mission.

Board of Directors

2009 - 2010

Board of Directors

2008 - 2010

Investor

2000 - 2010

Premiere venture capital firm with a focus on early stage software startups. Have been instrumental in many investments including Baynote, Bridgestream, Cenzic, InMage, Jareva Technologies, Krillion, Scalent, SyncVoice, Tizor and Voltage Security. Titles varied from Associate to Managing Director.