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Ramneek Gupta

Founder and Managing Partner at PruVen Capital. Venture Investor in Square, Docusign, Honey, Jet.com, Pismo, Grab Holdings, Datarobot, Feedzai, Homelight & Angel investor in Robinhood, Checkr, Ipsy and Vicarious

Palo Alto, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Founder and Managing Partner

    2020

    PruVen Capital is an independent venture and growth equity platform created in partnership with Prudential Financial as our single LP. Our first fund is a $300M multi stage investment vehicle focused on verticals including Insurance, Fin services, Healthtech, Real estate and prop tech and enterprise IT. Led PruVen's investments in: - Newfront Insurance - Pismo - Contabilizei - Lifepal - Avibra - Datarobot - GovPort - Focalpoint

  • Angel Investor

    2010

    - Robinhood - Commission Free, Mobile First retail brokerage - CheckR - Automated background checking thru RESTful APIs - Ipsy - Largest online beauty community with a personalized, monthly Makeup & Beauty Sample Subscription business - Gridspace - Automated voice analytics that makes voice data searchable (tech from SRI Labs) - Vicarious - Next generation of AI to help machines see, think and perceive like humans - Pointr Data - Zappedy (acq by Groupon) - Cardspring (acq by Twitter)

2011 - 2020

  • Managing Director, Co-head Global Venture Investing

    2011 - 2020

    Co-lead Citi's Venture Capital group and drive venture investing activities globally. Focused on the following key themes: - Big Data, Analytics & Machine learning - Info/cyber Security - Enterprise IT (Cloud, Mobility and Network/storage virtualization) - Commerce and Payments - Next gen Fin Services and Fin Tech - Regulatory and compliance Tech - Digital media and advertising Led Citi Ventures' investments in: - Square (NYSE: SQ) - Jet.com (Acq by Walmart for $3.3B) - Docusign (NASDAQ: DOCU) - Honey (Acq by Paypal for $4B) - Grab Inc. (NASDAQ: GRAB) - Udaan - Datarobot - Feedzai - Homelight - Scratch - Immuta - Anvil - Anaconda - Ondot Systems (Acq by FiServ) - Zum - Fastpay - Kinetica - Chain.com - Ujet - Flybits - Stoic Systems - Ayasdi - Platfora (Acq by Workday) - Jumio - Pepperdata - DB Networks - Datameer - TradeIt - LiveNinja (Acq by IDT)

2010 - 2011

  • Business Lead

    2010 - 2011

    Zappedy was one of the first to close the online to offline loop in the daily deals space. The company's technology leveraged the payment rails data to track redemption, upsell and repeat purchase activity for daily deals customers. The company was acquired by Groupon to become the nucleus of Groupon Rewards

2006 - 2011

  • Partner

    2006 - 2011

    Digital Media and Financial services investor. Helped build Battery's investment practice and team in India and also focused on the intersection of commerce, payments and digital media in the US.

2002 - 2006

  • Principal

    2002 - 2006

2001 - 2001

  • Design Engineer

    2001 - 2001

2000 - 2001

  • Design Engineer

    2000 - 2001