Amit Somani
Managing Partner @ Prime Venture Partners
Bengaluru, India
Amit Somani is a seed investor at Prime Venture Partners in Bengaluru focused on Education and Internet. Amit is our CTO - chief travel officer and is always thinking of some staycation, workcation, jobbatical or helping us with our travels!Amit has more than 20 years of experience in technology and internet industries and is also deeply engaged with the early stage ecosystem in India. In his previous role as the Chief Products Officer forMakeMyTrip, Amit led the entire online product portfolio. He was a part of the leadership team that took the company public on NASDAQ in 2010. Amit has also been the head of various teams focusing on search, mobile and advertisement products at Google. One of his products (the search‐based keyword tool) won the Google founder's award. Prior to his role at Google, Amit was the Director for the Enterprise Search and Discovery business at IBM San Jose, California.Amit holds a B.S Computer Science (Gold medalist) from Indian Institute of Technology Varanasi and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published several papers and holds seven US patents. When he is not busy mentoring and working with entrepreneurs, Amit loves to travel around the world, is a sports enthusiast, enjoys reading and is a fusion chef!
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 91%
Last updated:
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Industries Amit Somani invests in
Stages Amit Somani invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Education 3 (27%)
- Internet 2 (18%)
- E-Learning 2 (18%)
- Human Resources 2 (18%)
- SaaS 1 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (36%)
- Series A 3 (27%)
- Series B 1 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (9%)
Country
- India 6 (55%)
- United States 2 (18%)
Investments
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| Klaar provides a personalized employee performance, learning, development, talent, and experience platform for hybrid and remote teams. Their products include mentoring and social learning, belonging and inclusion, workforce management, and employee engagement. They help to drive direct business outcomes by concentrating on the areas critical forpeople success in future work. | $5M / Series A / Sep 10, 2025 | ||
| Elchemy is your high-trust gateway to Indian chemical manufacturers. We offer the best payment terms, seasoned chemical consultants, the fastest turnaround times and minimum supply chain risks. | $5.6M / Series A / Nov 25, 2024 | ||
| Poshn agri platform enable wholesale buyers and sellers to discover prices, trade online, assist in logistics and flexible payments. | $4M / Seed / May 06, 2024 | ||
| PlanetSpark is a scientifically designed English and Math program, exclusively for pre-teens kids and aligned with the school curriculum. The program is based on our proprietary STEPS Methodology (Spark Think Explain Practice Share) that ensures a very strong foundation for conceptual understanding. It has been designed by educationists from XLRIJamshedpur and draws its inspiration from child cognitive psychology, and learning pedagogy, and presents it in an engaging and gamified way to make students fall in love with academics.Planet Spark partners with qualified homemakers who are passionate about teaching, have a great personality, skills, and relevant teaching experience, and turn them into “Teach from Home” Mompreneurs. The Teachers are trained to start their own home-based learning centers that are fully powered by PlanetSpark Content, Marketing, and Technology. | $17.1M / Series B / Mar 08, 2024 | ||
| Poshn agri platform enable wholesale buyers and sellers to discover prices, trade online, assist in logistics and flexible payments. | $3.8M / Seed / Apr 27, 2022 | ||
| PlanetSpark is a scientifically designed English and Math program, exclusively for pre-teens kids and aligned with the school curriculum. The program is based on our proprietary STEPS Methodology (Spark Think Explain Practice Share) that ensures a very strong foundation for conceptual understanding. It has been designed by educationists from XLRIJamshedpur and draws its inspiration from child cognitive psychology, and learning pedagogy, and presents it in an engaging and gamified way to make students fall in love with academics.Planet Spark partners with qualified homemakers who are passionate about teaching, have a great personality, skills, and relevant teaching experience, and turn them into “Teach from Home” Mompreneurs. The Teachers are trained to start their own home-based learning centers that are fully powered by PlanetSpark Content, Marketing, and Technology. | $13.5M / Series B / Dec 07, 2021 | ||
| Hiration is an AI-powered recruitment marketplace helping job seekers in each step of their job search process. The platform enables users to create, optimize, and manage their professional identities. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $2.9M / Seed / Aug 18, 2021 | ||
| CollPoll integrates an intuitive interaction model with artificial intelligence system and advanced analytics to help stakeholders in an education institution communicate, collaborate and make timely well-informed decisions. powers up every part of an institution, be it academics, admissions, campus life or placements. | $2.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 05, 2021 | ||
| Sunstone Eduversity is an academic institution that aims at creating industry ready professionals with our unique pedagogy and technology-enabled education delivery. We partner with existing colleges who have a well-equipped infrastructure to run and manage an AICTE approved, PGDM program by leveraging the use of modern-day technology and thusensuring that the students are provided with the highest level of education quality across all our campuses. All our students are imparted with the desired skill sets that are in sync with the corporate environment and given practical training on various corporate domains that exist in an organization.The faculty at Sunstone realized that there was a huge disconnect between the present education system and the dynamic demands of the employment industry. Students these days have immense subject matter knowledge which is imbibed in them throughout their foundation years which begins right from their schooling and continues until they complete their post-graduation and so on!Broadcasting information on various subject matters does not really comply with the current industry requirements and hence the students really struggle when it comes to acing certain tasks at work. They lack the basic skill set that is considered to be a pre-requisite by most of the corporates and are not considered industry ready professionals.We envision in bringing about a paradigm shift in the present higher education system by equipping the students with various skill sets so that they are easily absorbed by the recruitment companies. Till date, Sunstone Eduversity has a 100% placement record with over 200 different recruitment companies impaneled with us. We take full responsibility of your career as we believe that all education institutes should provide its students with the confidence to be placed right after acquiring the desired skill sets and hence are delighted to procreate this framework! | $3.3M / Series A / Sep 30, 2020 | ||
| Sunstone Eduversity is an academic institution that aims at creating industry ready professionals with our unique pedagogy and technology-enabled education delivery. We partner with existing colleges who have a well-equipped infrastructure to run and manage an AICTE approved, PGDM program by leveraging the use of modern-day technology and thusensuring that the students are provided with the highest level of education quality across all our campuses. All our students are imparted with the desired skill sets that are in sync with the corporate environment and given practical training on various corporate domains that exist in an organization.The faculty at Sunstone realized that there was a huge disconnect between the present education system and the dynamic demands of the employment industry. Students these days have immense subject matter knowledge which is imbibed in them throughout their foundation years which begins right from their schooling and continues until they complete their post-graduation and so on!Broadcasting information on various subject matters does not really comply with the current industry requirements and hence the students really struggle when it comes to acing certain tasks at work. They lack the basic skill set that is considered to be a pre-requisite by most of the corporates and are not considered industry ready professionals.We envision in bringing about a paradigm shift in the present higher education system by equipping the students with various skill sets so that they are easily absorbed by the recruitment companies. Till date, Sunstone Eduversity has a 100% placement record with over 200 different recruitment companies impaneled with us. We take full responsibility of your career as we believe that all education institutes should provide its students with the confidence to be placed right after acquiring the desired skill sets and hence are delighted to procreate this framework! | $1.6M / Seed / Nov 13, 2019 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Prime Venture Partners
Formerly known as AngelPrime. Prime Venture Parnters is a Bangalore-based seed fund led by serial entrepreneurs Sanjay Swamy, Shripati Acharya and Amit Somani. The fund is focused on building disruptive product companies out of India, and addresses a much needed gap in the Indian startup ecosystem - by bringing a combination of first-hand entrepreneurial experience, operating expertise and meaningful capital. Prime Venture Partners have incubated exciting startups including ZipDial (acquired by Twitter), Ezetap, SmartOwner, Synup, HackerEarth, happay, Vidgyor, Maya, KredX, MoneyTap & NiYO.
Prime Venture Partners Contacts
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Sanjay Swamy
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Sanjay Swamy
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Shripati Acharya
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Amit Somani invests primarily in Education, Internet and E-Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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