# Ankur Prakash

> Ankur Prakash is a Series A investor at Liberty Global Ventures backing Software. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Liberty Global Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liberty-global-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Jul 2023
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankurp4517/

Ankur Prakash is a Series A investor at Liberty Global Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Cloud Security. Ankur Prakash - Partner @ Liberty Global Ventures

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 50% |
| Cloud Security | 3 | 21% |
| Analytics | 2 | 14% |
| Cyber Security | 2 | 14% |
| Network Hardware | 2 | 14% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 29% |
| Series B | 3 | 21% |
| Series C | 3 | 21% |
| Series D | 2 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nexla | Nexla is a data operations platform that helps teams create scalable, repeatable, and predictable data flows for any data use case. Analysts, business users, and data engineers use Nexla to integrate, automate and monitor their incoming and outgoing data flows. The end result is predictable and reliable data access inside and outside theorganization. | $18M | Series B | Jul 25, 2023 |  |
| Nexla | Nexla is a data operations platform that helps teams create scalable, repeatable, and predictable data flows for any data use case. Analysts, business users, and data engineers use Nexla to integrate, automate and monitor their incoming and outgoing data flows. The end result is predictable and reliable data access inside and outside theorganization. | $18M | Series A | Jul 25, 2023 |  |
| Ahana | Ahana was founded as the first company focused on bringing PrestoDB-based ad hoc analytics offerings to market and working to foster growth and evangelize the Presto community. While Presto is in large-scale production deployment at large internet companies like Facebook, Uber, and Twitter, Ahana’s mission is to simplify ad hoc analytics fororganizations of all shapes and sizes. We are an “All Remote” company, from the start. | $7.2M | Series A | Jun 16, 2022 |  |
| Lacework | Lacework is a security platform for cloud generation that provides automated threat defense and intrusion detection for cloud workloads. Its platform automates every aspect of security, including configuration assessment, behavior monitoring, anomaly, and threat detection as well as incident investigation and provides continuous monitoring of allcloud components such as workloads, applications, processes, containers, machines, users, and accounts that enable security teams to protect data and workloads in the cloud and maintain continuous compliance.The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California. | $1.3B | Series D | Nov 18, 2021 |  |
| Nexla | Nexla is a data operations platform that helps teams create scalable, repeatable, and predictable data flows for any data use case. Analysts, business users, and data engineers use Nexla to integrate, automate and monitor their incoming and outgoing data flows. The end result is predictable and reliable data access inside and outside theorganization. | $12M | Series A | Oct 13, 2021 |  |
| Arrcus | Arrcus offers hyper-scale networking software that provides software-powered network transformation for the interconnected world. The company's software improves human experiences by connecting people, machines, and data, and it provides simple-to-use software that spans the infrastructure, from routers to switches to servers, allowingbusinesses to unify manageability and control with the ease of a single network solution that works across the entire network infrastructure and simplifies operations.Arrcus was established in 2016 in San Jose, California by Devesh Garg. | $28M | Series C | May 21, 2021 |  |
| Lacework | Lacework is a security platform for cloud generation that provides automated threat defense and intrusion detection for cloud workloads. Its platform automates every aspect of security, including configuration assessment, behavior monitoring, anomaly, and threat detection as well as incident investigation and provides continuous monitoring of allcloud components such as workloads, applications, processes, containers, machines, users, and accounts that enable security teams to protect data and workloads in the cloud and maintain continuous compliance.The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California. | $525M | Series C | Jan 07, 2021 |  |
| Arista NDR | Arista NDR is the only advanced network traffic analysis company that delivers a privacy-aware solution capable of detecting and visualizing behavioral, mal-intent and compliance incidents with full forensics context. Powered by Ava, Arista NDR security expert system, the Arista NDR platform combines federated machine learning, threat intelligenceand human expertise. The platform analyzes billions of communications to autonomously discover, profile and classify every device, user and application on any network. Through automated hunting and investigation, Arista NDR platform uncovers malicious intent from insiders and external attackers alike. The company was acquired by Arista Networks in 2019. | $36M | Series C | Apr 15, 2020 |  |
| Plume Design | Plume is a software-as-a-service platform for communications service providers (CSPs) that enables the delivery of services for connected homes. Its platform serves connected homes, delivering features like optimum Wi-Fi, parental controls, and motion sensing to smart home residents while giving communication service providers back-end applicationsto provide support.Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $60M | Series D | Feb 25, 2020 |  |
| Lacework | Lacework is a security platform for cloud generation that provides automated threat defense and intrusion detection for cloud workloads. Its platform automates every aspect of security, including configuration assessment, behavior monitoring, anomaly, and threat detection as well as incident investigation and provides continuous monitoring of allcloud components such as workloads, applications, processes, containers, machines, users, and accounts that enable security teams to protect data and workloads in the cloud and maintain continuous compliance.The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California. | $42M | Series B | Sep 12, 2019 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sutter Hill Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sutter-hill-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Blumberg Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blumberg-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Engineering Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/engineering-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Industry Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/industry-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Storm Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/storm-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Liberty Global Ventures

VC Fund · Englewood, United States

Liberty Global Ventures is an investment fund owned by Liberty Global. Its existing portfolio consists of companies in the content, technology, internet, and distribution space. These investments are managed by a dedicated team of professionals located in Denver, Palo Alto, London, and Amsterdam.

5 contacts available at Liberty Global Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ankur Prakash | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ankur-prakash-d8ed |
| Bruce Dines | Senior Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruce-dines |
| John H. Gowen | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-h-gowen |
| John Paul | Managing Director, Emerging Business | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-paul-96d4 |
| Charles H. R. Bracken | Executive Vice President and Co-Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-h-r-bracken |

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## FAQ

### What does Ankur Prakash invest in?

Ankur Prakash invests primarily in Software, Cloud Security and Analytics startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ankur Prakash last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ankur Prakash closed in Jul 2023. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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