# Prakash Ramamurthy > Prakash Ramamurthy is a funding round investor at Freshworks backing SaaS and Sports. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [Freshworks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/freshworks) - Location: San Francisco, United States - Total investments: 4 - Last investment: Feb 2020 - Lead investor: 75% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prakashramamurthy/ - X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/prakashramam - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/prakash.ramamurthy Prakash Ramamurthy is a funding round investor at Freshworks in San Francisco focused on SaaS and Sports. Prakash is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of experience leading product strategy and technology vision in startups and high growth companies. Prior to joining Trinity, he was most recently the chief product officer at LifeLock where he was instrumental in driving member and revenue growth resulting in a successful IPO in 2012.Prakashserved as the senior VP of product management and engineering for Gaia Online, a teen and young adult avatar-based social gaming and community website. During his time there, he helped Gaia Online become one of the leaders in virtual goods and microtransactions.Before working for Gaia Online, he was the VP of identity management and security products for Oracle, the world’s largest business software company. In the nine years before representing Oracle, he served as senior VP of products and technology at Oblix, whose products have been deployed by Fortune 500 companies to protect and secure mission-critical applications.Prior to joining Oblix in 1996, Prakash held senior technical and management positions at C*ATS Software, Mentor Graphics, and Verity. He holds an MS in computer engineering from Boston University and a BE in computer science and engineering from Anna University in Madras, India.He and his wife Pavi have two teenaged kids who keep them plenty busy. ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | SaaS | 1 | 25% | | Sports | 1 | 25% | | Content | 1 | 25% | | Podcast | 1 | 25% | | Big Data | 1 | 25% | 15 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Funding Round | 2 | 50% | | Seed | 1 | 25% | | Series A | 1 | 25% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Blue Wire | Blue Wire is an audio-centric media company hosting podcasts with athletes, influencers, and professional sports franchises. It acquires and launches podcasts about one team or one specific topic. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $1.2M | Seed | Feb 19, 2020 | | | Preact | Preact (formerly Less Neglect) is a cloud-based customer success service that helps subscription software companies maximize customer lifetime value by reducing churn, acquiring new paid customers, and increasing user revenues. Preact provides health metrics tailored to each user and account by tracking detailed session-level usage of web andmobile applications and server APIs. Preact predicts and informs which customers are likely to churn, renew, or upgrade by modeling usage and behavior patterns using big data analytics, behavioral science, and machine learning. In addition, Preact provides deep, real-time visibility into product usage to dramatically improve customer support and product quality. Preact integrates with Gmail, Salesforce, Stripe, Zendesk, Desk.com, Helpscout, Mixpanel, and Marketo, and other leading cloud-based apps. | $7M | | Jun 10, 2015 | | | dotloop | dotloop is the largest network in real estate, where more than 900,000 professionals come together to get work done. dotloop enables agents, brokers and other professionals to complete an entire real estate transaction from start to close, via a workspace called a ‘loop,’ which brings people, documents and tasks into one online experience. dotloopallows brokers to run a better business, by increasing visibility, retaining top talent and reducing operating costs. Agents use dotloop to provide a better experience to their clients and close more deals. | $2M | | Oct 17, 2014 | | | dotloop | dotloop is the largest network in real estate, where more than 900,000 professionals come together to get work done. dotloop enables agents, brokers and other professionals to complete an entire real estate transaction from start to close, via a workspace called a ‘loop,’ which brings people, documents and tasks into one online experience. dotloopallows brokers to run a better business, by increasing visibility, retaining top talent and reducing operating costs. Agents use dotloop to provide a better experience to their clients and close more deals. | $7M | Series A | May 22, 2012 | | 4 of 4 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Accomplice](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accomplice-atlas-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [boldstart ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boldstart-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [DOT Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dot-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Forty5 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forty5-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Harmony Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harmony-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together ## About Freshworks VC Fund · San Mateo, United States Freshworks provides innovative customer engagement software for businesses of all sizes, making it easy for teams to acquire, close, and keep their customers for life. Freshworks SaaS products provide a 360-degree view of the customer, are ready to go, easy to use, and offer quick return on investment. It was founded in 2010 and Headquartered inSan Mateo, USA. 5 contacts available at Freshworks. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Adit Parekh | Director Corporate Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adit-parekh | | Bobby Jaffari | President, North America | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bobby-jaffari | | Dennis Woodside | Chief Executive Officer & President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dennis-woodside | | Pradeep Rathinam | Chief Customer Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pradeep-rathinam | | Prakash Ramamurthy | Chief Product Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prakash-ramamurthy | ## Similar investors ### Similar stage - [Bpifrance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpifrance) — VC Fund - [SFC Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startup-funding-club) — VC Fund - [HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-tech-gr%C3%BCnderfonds) — VC Fund ## FAQ ### What does Prakash Ramamurthy invest in? Prakash Ramamurthy invests primarily in SaaS, Sports and Content startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 4 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 Prakash Ramamurthy last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Prakash Ramamurthy closed in Feb 2020. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly. ### Is Shizune's investor data accurate? Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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