Prime Venture Partners Podcast

Taavet Hinrikus , Co-Founder Transferwise , chats with Sanjay Swamy Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Taavet has been building internet businesses since 1997. He has been Skype's director of strategy until 2008, joining the company as its first ever employee. And then he moved on and found his own venture Transferwise . Listen to the episode to learn about: 2:05 - Why Estonia has been...

Ajay Hattangdi is the co-founder & Managing Partner at Alteria Capital . Ajay is one of the early pioneers of the Indian venture ecosystem and has worked with startups for over 20 years. He started the country’s first venture debt program in 2005. He is currently the co-founder and managing partner at Alteria Capital. Prior to co-founding Alteria Capital in 2017, Ajay was the founding CEO of S...

Paddy Upton is a celebrated cricket coach, a mental performance coach and a business leader who coaches business leaders as well. Along with Gary Kirsten as Head Coach, Paddy Upton was appointed Mental Conditioning and Strategic Leadership Coach of the Indian National cricket team in 2008. Under Kirsten and Upton, the team attained the  ICC top test team ranking for their first time (2009), and we...

Ankur Warikoo , Co-founder Nearbuy chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners. Ankur Warikoo is an  Internet entrepreneur, motivational speaker and an angel investor. He is the co-founder of  Nearbuy  (where he served as the CEO from 2015-2019). He was previously the CEO of  Groupon  India + APAC, MD of Rocket Internet  India, Co-founder at Accentium Web, and a management co...

Kabeer Biswas , CEO Delivery Service Dunzo , chats with Sanjay Swamy , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Starting in 2014, with just WhatsApp, Kabeer Biswas has successfully taken Dunzo to another level. Kabeer is a graduate in Computer Engineering and has worked with companies like Airtel and Videocon. Time Stamps: 1:49- Kabeer Biswas on starting Dunzo 5:31- Kabeer Biswas on scaling up, k...

On this episode, Sanjay Swamy in conversation with acclaimed neurosurgeon Dr. Satish Rudrappa Dr. Satish Rudrappa is one of the most eminent and distinguished Senior Neurosurgeons in India. He has done his M.B.B.S from Karnataka Medical College, Hubli in the year 1990. He completed M.Ch (Neurosurgery) at the prestigious National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in the year 19...

On this episode Amit Somani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesomani/) in coversation with Arjun Sethi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/asethi/) and Jake Ellowitz (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-ellowitz/) , partners at Tribe Capital (https://tribecap.co/)A Quantative Approach to Product Market Fit (https://tribecap.co/a-quantitative-approach-to-product-market-fit/)Listen to the episode to learn about...

Ashish Gupta (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashish-gupta-9632571/) , Serial Entrepreneur chats with Amit Somani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesomani/) , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .Ashish Gupta is a well-known and highly respected figure both in the Indian startup ecosystem and in Silicon Valley. He is a Kauffman Fellow, holds a Ph. D. in Computer Science from St...

Vijay Arisetty (https://www.linkedin.com/in/a-vijay-kumar/) , Co-founder and CEO MyGate (https://mygate.com/) chats with Sanjay Swamy, (https://www.linkedin.com/in/theswamy/) Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .Vijay is an alumni of National Defense Academy (NDA) and Indian School of Business (ISB) with 15 years of experience. He served as a VP at Goldman Sachs for 4 yea...

Mohit Gupta (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mogup/) , CEO Food Delivery Zomato (https://www.zomato.com/) chats with Amit Somani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesomani/) , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .Mohit is a business leader with experience in scaling & running leading food delivery & travel e-commerce businesses. He currently leads the food delivery busine...

Prasad Kompalli (https://www.linkedin.com/in/prasadkompalli/) , Co-founder and CEO mfine (https://www.mfine.co/) chats with Shripati Acharya (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shripatiacharya/) , Managing Partner at Prime Venture Partners on evolving telemedicine industry in India. Having been the CBO at Myntra and Senior VP at SAP Labs, Prasad Kompalli believes in leveraging technology for innovation a...

Ashu Garg, (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashugargvc/) General Partner Foundation Capital (https://foundationcapital.com/)   chats with Shripati Acharya (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shripatiacharya/) , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .Ashu was the General Manager for Microsoft's online advertising business and he led field marketing for the software business. Previ...

Nami Zarringhalam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/namizarringhalam/) , Chairman Truecaller (https://www.truecaller.com/) chats with Amit Somani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesomani/) , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .Nami, Born in Tehran (Iran) and moved to Stockholm (Sweden) at the age of 3. Studied Computer Science (M.sc.) at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). He...

Stephen Wunker (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenwunker/) Managing Director New Markets Advisors (https://www.newmarketsadvisors.com/) chats with Shripati Acharya (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shripatiacharya/) , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .Steve Wunker led development of one of the world’s first smartphones, has built and sold several successful businesses, and...

Nivruti Rai (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nivruti-rai-0a56a916/) , Country Head, Intel India (https://www.intel.in/content/www/in/en/homepage.html) and VP Data Center Group, at Intel Corporation chats with Sanjay Swamy, (https://www.linkedin.com/in/theswamy/) Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .Nivruti is a global leader with 20+ years of technical and business leadership...

Manik Gupta (https://www.linkedin.com/in/manikg/) , Co-founder CVKey (https://www.cvkeyproject.org/) and former Cheif Product Officer at Uber chats with Amit Somani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesomani/) , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .Manik currently serves as an advisor and investor to startups based in the US and India. Manik has built the products that have h...

Sachin Gupta (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachingupta006/) , Co-founder and CEO HackerEarth (https://www.hackerearth.com/) chats with Shripati Acharya (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shripatiacharya/) , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .Sachin Gupta is a graduate of IIT Roorkee where he majored in Computer Science. He worked at Google before starting his own venture. Prio...

Nakul Shenoy (https://twitter.com/NakulShenoy) , Mindreader and mystery entertainer chats with Amit Somani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesomani/) , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .In this conversation they discuss science and magic, how magic can be used in persuasion and in business, customer discovery process and connecting with people. With his imagination kindl...

Rajesh Magow (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajesh-magow-9278094/) , Co-founder and Group CEO MakeMyTrip (https://www.makemytrip.com/) chats with Amit Somani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesomani/) , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .In this conversation, they discuss the travel industry post-COVID era, private vs public fundraising and dealing with the crisis. Rajesh M...

Sanjeev Bikhchandani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjeev-bikhchandani-501261/) Founder and Vice Chairman of Naukri (https://www.naukri.com/) chats with Amit Somani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesomani/) , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .In this conversation, they discuss raising funds, customer insights, capital efficiency and international competition. Sanjeev Bi...

Miten is Chief Strategy Officer at Times Internet chats with Amit Somani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesomani/) , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .In this conversation, they explore the opportunities on Future internet landscape. Listen to the podcast to learn about1:15 - Times internet & Times Bridge7:45 - People reading e-papers in the age of apps11:43 - Build...

Paras Chopra, (https://www.linkedin.com/in/paraschopra/) Founder & Chairman, Wingify (https://wingify.com/) chats with Amit Somani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesomani/) , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .Paras Chopra, Founder & Chairman - Wingify - With a background in machine learning, Paras started Wingify in early 2009 to enable businesses design and dep...

Sanjay Jain (https://www.linkedin.com/in/snjyjn/) , Partner at Bharat Fund chats with Shripati Acharya (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shripatiacharya/) , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .Sanjay was the Chief Product Officer at UIDAI. Before that, he ran product at Google Map Maker, a crowdsourced mapping product that helped to build Google Maps Data for over 170 countri...

Sangeet Paul Choudary (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sangeetpaul/) , Best-selling Author of Platform Scale (https://amzn.to/2VgkDfm) and Platform Revolution (https://amzn.to/34HqgpS) chats with Amit Somani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesomani/) , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .Sangeet Paul Choudary is a C-level executive advisor and an international best-selling aut...

Padma Parthasarathy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/padma-parthasarathy-427a04/) ,  SVP and Global Head, Consulting and Digital Services at Tech Mahindra (https://www.techmahindra.com) chats with Sanjay Swamy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/theswamy/) Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .Padma Parthasarathy heads the global consulting team at Tech Mahindra – a team engaged in b...