Nagaraja Prakasam
Lead Angel Investor and Founding Angel @ IAN Group
Bengaluru, India
Nagaraja Prakasam is a seed investor at IAN Group in Bengaluru focused on E-Commerce and Machine Learning. Nagaraja (Naga) Prakasam is a versatile and passionate leader with 26 years of global experience (a decade in the USA and a decade+ in India). As a full time angel investor, he has invested in 21 start-ups, serves 12 boards, has seen 5 exits 1 write-off. He spearheaded Impact thinking in Indian Angel Network and co-founded IAN Impact. His personal mantra is “Start-ups should focus on India’s strength – people, problems, tech”. He believes in a hands on approach and travels extensively in rural areas understanding the need first hand. He is sought after as a thought leader in the impact space and has inspired many students as a motivational speaker in a number of colleges. Featured by Forbes magazine as Social investor engineering social change. Delivered C.K.Prahalad memorial lecture at WorldCoCreationDay. Chaired “Green Revolution 2.0 – Food Security and the role of innovation” at 10th CII Innovation Summit. Spoke at launch of Bank of Innovations and Ideas (BII) by Ministry of Rural Development along with Dr.Abdul Kalam. Awarded “Successful Person 2015/Vetri Tamilar” by Sangam4, Chennai. Proud to join CM of Rajasthan to unveil the state startup policy. Partner at Acumen – New York based $100M impact venture fund and serves as an independent director in one of its portfolio company, Guardian – a micro finance venture working in Water and Sanitation. Founder Chairman of Native Angels Network (NAN) by Nativelead foundation (NLF) – enables entrepreneurship in non-metros of Tamilnadu, with the vision to Enable, Nurture, Incubate, Invest. NAN grown into 220 angels in Madurai, Trichy, Coimbatore, Erode, Tuticorin, Karur, Tirunelveli with 6 investments, touching 120 startups, 37 colleges. Advisor and Mentor-in-Residence at NSRCEL, IIMB; Investment Committee, IIT Madras Incubator; Mentor at CIIE, IIMA; Board Member, Madurai Agri-Business Incubator, TNAU-NABARD. Expert jury panel at Karnataka Government Elevate, Forbes 30 under 30. Advisor – aIdea, NAARM Agri Incubator; Startup Oasis; Change Alliance; VIT – TBI; CARE School of Business, Trichy; IIHR-Bangalore. 21 Investments: Carbon Masters, Nativespecial, Neurosynaptic, Lumiere Organic, Guardian (exited), SP Robotics, Saahas, Freshworld (series A), Uniphore (series B, partial exit), GoCoOp (series A), Happy Hens, Rain Stock, Sattva Consulting, GramVaani (merged with OnMobile), Consure (series A) , Orangescape, Gamiana (exited), Stayzilla (partially exited), UnBxd (exited), Druva (series D), Solaron (exited). 15 boards: Carbon Masters – Waste to bio-CNG/Organic fertilizer, Neurosynaptic – telemedicine; Enabling access to quality and affordable healthcare to masses in rural and remote areas through technology, GoCoOp – online market place for co-operatives, Uniphore – voice recognition for 60+ languages and 100+ dialects. Pushes valuable information to 45Lakhs farmers a day. Freshworld – Farm to Home vegetables using cleantech smart carts. Saahas – Zero Waste Management; recycling 30 tons of waste a day. Rain Stock – affordable RWH, Gray/Black water recycling in Madurai, Guardian, SP Robotics, Lumiere Organic, Sattva Consulting, Happy Hens, Madurai Agri Incubator – TNAU-Nabard, Industree Skills Transform, Nativelead Foundation Served as President of Atlanta and San Diego Chapters for the Association for India’s Development (AID). AID received Times of India Social Impact award in 2011 from the Prime Minister. Earlier in his career, as President of CDC Software (world’s 12th largest enterprise software company) South & Southeast Asia, managed sales and India Engineering Centre of Excellence. During the 16 years tenure, grew from Systems Engineer to President involved in growing the company from $50M to $400M with ups and downs. At the age of 35, youngest executive to be given country head responsibilities. Intrapreneurial culture that he inculcated made the company to be shortlisted for prestigious NExT Practices Award for “Promoting Innovation & Entrepreneurship” by NASSCOM. Currently residing in Bangalore, Naga holds a B.E. degree from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India and an MBA degree from the San Diego/Kennesaw State University, United States.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 73%
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Industries Nagaraja Prakasam invests in
Stages Nagaraja Prakasam invests in
Countries Nagaraja Prakasam invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $340k–$813k
- Angel
- $434k–$458k
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 3 (20%)
- Machine Learning 2 (13%)
- SaaS 1 (7%)
- Fruit 1 (7%)
- AgTech 1 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (40%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (20%)
- Angel 2 (13%)
- Series A 1 (7%)
Country
- India 7 (47%)
- United States 1 (7%)
- United Kingdom 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Boson White Water is a sustainable water management company increasing your water availability. | $411K / Seed / Feb 24, 2022 | ||
| Boson White Water is a sustainable water management company increasing your water availability. | $457.5K / Angel / Feb 24, 2022 | ||
| FarmersFZ represent the union of farmers. They represent the collapsing agricultural sector of our nation!!. They represent the suffering lives of farmers.They understand the poor customers who are compelled to buy the toxic vegetables and fruits by paying high price. They pity the helpless state of million people who are struggling to find outthe natural sources of fresh and pure vegetables. | $812.9K / Seed / Sep 08, 2021 | ||
| SP Robotic Works is India's #1 Edutainment Company that bundles Learning Robotics, Coding & other New age technologies with fun! Digital Learning Platform(AI assisted) coupled with Hands-on Kits helps students learn various Technologies like Robotics, Coding, Internet Of Things(IoT), Drones, Android App Building, Virtual Reality and manymore!! They deliver courses both on Online & Offline Smart classes mode via SP Robotics Maker Labs spread across 83 dedicated centres in 32 cities and 13 states. | $3M / Series A / Jul 30, 2021 | ||
| FreshWorld offers a farm to home concept by organizing fruits and vegetables (FnV) retailing.FreshWorld having revolutionized and upgraded the time tested street vending format aims to reach the Customers in this unique delivery format in order that they experience the ease and convenience of quality FnV purchase right at their doorstep. Thetransparency of pricing and an automated digital bill for every purchase embellishes the Freshworld story of providing a supermarket experience for the Customers while the digital weighing scale, with Customer friendly dual display, provides ample testimony to the accuracy of the weight of FnV purchased. The freshness of the FnV coupled with ‘touch and feel ‘as well as ‘pick and choose’ format of purchase enables our customers to have this unique experience at their doorstep paralleled only in a super market of this age. | Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 26, 2020 | ||
| Carbon Masters helps organisations to measure, manage, reduce and report their carbon emissions, Our raison d´etre is a passion to help people in both their professional and personal lives reduce their carbon impact and to adapt to inevitable climate change. Carbon Masters two founding partners bring a range of complementary skills andcapabilities, youthful enthusiasm and experience, and an understanding of both the developing and developed worlds. Passion, global insight, and technical mastery are the values they aspire to bring to the company. Carbon Masters was established in 2009 and has since worked with a wide range of organisations in both the public and private sector to help them take steps to reduce their carbon emissions. The company now has offices in Edinburgh (UK), Bangalore (India) and Quito (Ecuador) and plans for a Carbon Masters USA are also on the horizon. | Seed / Jan 28, 2020 | ||
| Saahas Zero Waste provide end-to-end waste management services based on the principles of circular economy. We handle waste sustainably & responsibly for MNCs, tech parks, residential communities and other bulk generating organizations and institutions. Are you a bulk waste generator? Connect with us to ensure that your brand becomes zero wasteto landfill. | $864.4K / Venture - Series Unknown / May 06, 2019 | ||
| FreshWorld offers a farm to home concept by organizing fruits and vegetables (FnV) retailing.FreshWorld having revolutionized and upgraded the time tested street vending format aims to reach the Customers in this unique delivery format in order that they experience the ease and convenience of quality FnV purchase right at their doorstep. Thetransparency of pricing and an automated digital bill for every purchase embellishes the Freshworld story of providing a supermarket experience for the Customers while the digital weighing scale, with Customer friendly dual display, provides ample testimony to the accuracy of the weight of FnV purchased. The freshness of the FnV coupled with ‘touch and feel ‘as well as ‘pick and choose’ format of purchase enables our customers to have this unique experience at their doorstep paralleled only in a super market of this age. | Seed / Jan 01, 2019 | ||
| FarmersFZ represent the union of farmers. They represent the collapsing agricultural sector of our nation!!. They represent the suffering lives of farmers.They understand the poor customers who are compelled to buy the toxic vegetables and fruits by paying high price. They pity the helpless state of million people who are struggling to find outthe natural sources of fresh and pure vegetables. | $340.3K / Seed / Oct 16, 2018 | ||
| Carbon Masters helps organisations to measure, manage, reduce and report their carbon emissions, Our raison d´etre is a passion to help people in both their professional and personal lives reduce their carbon impact and to adapt to inevitable climate change. Carbon Masters two founding partners bring a range of complementary skills andcapabilities, youthful enthusiasm and experience, and an understanding of both the developing and developed worlds. Passion, global insight, and technical mastery are the values they aspire to bring to the company. Carbon Masters was established in 2009 and has since worked with a wide range of organisations in both the public and private sector to help them take steps to reduce their carbon emissions. The company now has offices in Edinburgh (UK), Bangalore (India) and Quito (Ecuador) and plans for a Carbon Masters USA are also on the horizon. | Seed / Jun 29, 2017 | ||
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Co-Investors
About IAN Group
Started in April 2006, the Indian Angel Network is a unique concept which brings together highly successful entrepreneurs and CEOs from India and around the world who are interested in investing in startup / early stage ventures which have the potential of creating disproportionate value. The Network, in addition to money, provide constant access to high quality mentoring, vast networks and inputs on strategy as well as execution. The Network members, because of their background are better able to assess the potential and risks at the early stage.
IAN Group Contacts
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Mohit Goyal
Founding member and Director
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Rajnish Kapur
Managing Partner ( IAN Fund )
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Ajay Gupta
Investor
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Chintan Thakkar
Group CEO
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Dave Banerjee
Director
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FAQ
What does Nagaraja Prakasam invest in?
Nagaraja Prakasam invests primarily in E-Commerce, Machine Learning and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Nagaraja Prakasam invest in?
Nagaraja Prakasam typically joins rounds of $340k–$813k at Seed and $434k–$458k at Angel. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Nagaraja Prakasam's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Nagaraja Prakasam took part in.
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When did Nagaraja Prakasam last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Nagaraja Prakasam closed in Feb 2022. Shizune tracks 15 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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