Karthik Prabhakar
Executive Director & Global Head - Fundraising @ Chiratae Ventures
Bengaluru, India
Karthik Prabhakar is a seed investor at Chiratae Ventures in Bengaluru focused on Gaming and Online Games. Karthik Prabhakar is Managing Director and Global Head of Fundraising, at Chiratae Ventures. He has been part of the Indian tech ecosystem since 2005 with experience spanning engineering, rapid prototyping, marketing, fundraising, investment advisory and portfolio management. Karthik has led with investments in NestAway, PlaySimple (acq by MTG),PlayShifu, EarlySalary, Blowhorn, Living Consumer (stake sold), Tamasha.live, GoodMeetings.ai and part of the deal team in Newgen (BSE: NEWGEN), Manthan Systems (stake sold), AgroStar and Vayana Networks.Karthik was recognized as one among the 40 Under 40 in the alternative investments space in India by AAAIF. For three consecutive years from 2016 to 2018, Karthik was recognized as one among the global top 100 Rising Stars in the venture industry by Global Corporate Venturing, held in California, US.Prior to Chiratae Ventures, Karthik worked with Intel in their Ideas to Reality team, a technology incubator focused on building IoT products around the Intel Atom processor. As a tech marketing person, he played a key role in rapid prototyping, conceptualizing field trial plans and creating Go-To-Market strategies for new product ideas in retail, digital advertising and video surveillance. Karthik was also actively involved in recruiting and mentoring new members for the group. Prior to that, he worked in the embedded systems team building security software for network processors. Karthik has also worked on developing innovative IoT/embedded solutions and has co-authored a patent in the area of Wireless Networks.Karthik holds a Bachelors degree in Information Science from RV College of Engineering and a PGDM from IIM Bangalore.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 69%
Last updated:
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Industries Karthik Prabhakar invests in
Stages Karthik Prabhakar invests in
Countries Karthik Prabhakar invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Gaming 4 (31%)
- Online Games 2 (15%)
- Toys 1 (8%)
- Travel 1 (8%)
- FinTech 1 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (46%)
- Series A 4 (31%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
Country
- India 8 (62%)
- United Kingdom 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Game State Labs is a gaming-focused AI infrastructure and product firm. | $2M / Seed / Nov 06, 2025 | ||
| Redacto is an AI-powered unified privacy platform that automates data discovery, vendor risk management, consent management, and privacy compliance workflows. Leveraging intelligent AI agents, it helps enterprises in banking, finance, insurance, and healthcare streamline privacy operations, reduce risk, and ensure regulatory compliance. | $1.4M / Seed / Oct 30, 2025 | ||
| Landmark a mobile game development studio founded on the principles and value. | $4.6M / Seed / Nov 14, 2022 | ||
| nCore Games is a mobile games and interactive entertainment company. | $10M / Series A / Jan 17, 2022 | ||
| Tamasha offers a platform for influencers to host live, video based, real money contests and games. | $3M / Seed / Oct 20, 2021 | ||
| Goodmeetings operates as an online video and AI enabled platform. | $1.7M / Seed / Aug 06, 2021 | ||
| PlayShifu is an EdTech startup that offers teaching and learning tools for children 4 to 12 years of age. Shifu creates an innovative and immersive learning experience during playtime by bringing board games and mobile devices together through Augmented Reality. Because they believe, children deserve good screen time. | $17M / Series B / Apr 06, 2021 | ||
| PlayShifu is an EdTech startup that offers teaching and learning tools for children 4 to 12 years of age. Shifu creates an innovative and immersive learning experience during playtime by bringing board games and mobile devices together through Augmented Reality. Because they believe, children deserve good screen time. | $3.4M / Series A / Jul 21, 2020 | ||
| PlayShifu is an EdTech startup that offers teaching and learning tools for children 4 to 12 years of age. Shifu creates an innovative and immersive learning experience during playtime by bringing board games and mobile devices together through Augmented Reality. Because they believe, children deserve good screen time. | $7M / Series A / Jul 24, 2019 | ||
| PlayShifu is an EdTech startup that offers teaching and learning tools for children 4 to 12 years of age. Shifu creates an innovative and immersive learning experience during playtime by bringing board games and mobile devices together through Augmented Reality. Because they believe, children deserve good screen time. | Seed / Nov 09, 2017 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Chiratae Ventures
IDG Ventures India is a leading technology venture capital fund in India. The fund is part of IDG Ventures, a global network of technology venture funds with over $6 billion under management with over 220 investee companies and 10 offices across Asia and North America. IDG Ventures has been an investor in companies including Funzio, Ctrip, Tencent, Baidu, Netscape, BabyCenter, Sohu, Vancl and VinaGame. In India, IDG Ventures has invested in companies such as Flipkart, Myntra, Yatra, Newgen, Brainbees (FirstCry.com), Vserv, Manthan Software, Valyoo (Lenskart.com), Actoserba (Zivame.com), NestAway and Hiree. More information about IDG Ventures is available at www.idgvcindia.com [Source](http://www.idgvcindia.com/about_us.htm) (idgvindia.com)
Chiratae Ventures Contacts
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Ranjith Menon
Executive Director
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Sudhir Sethi
Founder and Managing General Partner
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Venkatesh Peddi
Partner, Executive Director and Head of Software Sector
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Karthik Prabhakar
Executive Director & Global Head - Fundraising
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Kriti Gupta
Investment Analyst
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Karthik Prabhakar invests primarily in Gaming, Online Games and Toys startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 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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