Sanjay Swamy
Managing Partner & Co-Founder; Managing Partner @ Prime Venture Partners
Bengaluru, India
Sanjay Swamy is a seed investor at Prime Venture Partners in Bengaluru focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Sanjay loves his wacky sense of humour ‐ entrepreneurs who work with us will have to deal with a handful of self‐graded B‐grade puns!Sanjay is well known for his founding role at ZipDial (now acquired by Twitter) and his role at mChek, the path breaking startup in secure payments, Sanjay has trodden the path of an entrepreneur all through hiscareer. After completing his bachelor's degree in engineering, Sanjay headed to Paris where he earned his Master's degree.After a stint at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, Sanjay embarked on a journey to build world class teams and products that took him through startups like Ketera and Portal Software, mChek, Zipdial & Ezetap which he co‐founded in 2010.An active member of the community, Sanjay is a Rotarian and a charter member of TiE, a volunteer at iSPIRT, and organizes the Fintech Panel at the Nasscom Product Conclave. He also played a prominent role on the UIDAI project under the leadership of Nandan Nilekani. He is a frequent speaker and evangelist in the entrepreneurship and payments circuits in the country. Sanjay loves to blog ‐ anything you say that is half‐way intelligent will turn into a subject for his blog.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 47%
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Industries Sanjay Swamy invests in
Stages Sanjay Swamy invests in
Countries Sanjay Swamy invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 4 (27%)
- FinTech 3 (20%)
- Apps 2 (13%)
- Finance 2 (13%)
- SaaS 1 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (33%)
- Series A 4 (27%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (13%)
- Series B 1 (7%)
- Series C 1 (7%)
Investments
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| OTO Capital is a software platform that helps people to own or buy a car. The platform works in partnership with various banks and NBFCs to provide financing options to its customers. It also provides full auto lifecycle management, from credit underwriting to insurance, maintenance, and eventual resale of the vehicle. | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 06, 2024 | ||
| Dozee was founded by Mudit & Gaurav in 2015, with a vision to Simplify Healthcare to make it more accessible.Across the world, we follow a reactive approach to healthcare. Only when things go wrong we take a clinical intervention. Early intervention has the power to save countless lives and increase the quality of life. With a strongmotivation to move a brick in this direction, Mudit decided to quit his work as a race car engineer. However, he didn't leave the race cars behind. His inspiration from the sensing technology used in race cars led the foundation for Dozee. He then teamed up with Gaurav to build and evolve Dozee into India’s first contactless health monitor.After a series of intense R&D activities, partnering with premium research institutions such as NIMHANS, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular and Research, Dozee was proven to be 98.4% as accurate as medical grade devices and Dozee was launched in India in 2019. | $6M / Series A / Apr 04, 2023 | ||
| FinAGG is a Fintech company that offers stock now pay later or invoice finance/credit line, allowing repayment flexibility within the loan tenure.The company uses AI-enabled analytics to gain insights into sales and operations, determines funds, and provides loans without collateral, allowing clients to apply for loans by providing thenecessary business information and documents. | $3M / Seed / Sep 06, 2022 | ||
| NiYO is a fintech company that helps salaried employees access company benefits and other financial services.Founded in 2015, NiYO partners with companies (employers) and banks to offer employees the opportunity to access their benefits, such as healthcare or food allowances, through a digital platform. That includes a mobile app for submittingclaims, and the option of a credit card. | $100M / Series C / Feb 23, 2022 | ||
| Dozee was founded by Mudit & Gaurav in 2015, with a vision to Simplify Healthcare to make it more accessible.Across the world, we follow a reactive approach to healthcare. Only when things go wrong we take a clinical intervention. Early intervention has the power to save countless lives and increase the quality of life. With a strongmotivation to move a brick in this direction, Mudit decided to quit his work as a race car engineer. However, he didn't leave the race cars behind. His inspiration from the sensing technology used in race cars led the foundation for Dozee. He then teamed up with Gaurav to build and evolve Dozee into India’s first contactless health monitor.After a series of intense R&D activities, partnering with premium research institutions such as NIMHANS, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular and Research, Dozee was proven to be 98.4% as accurate as medical grade devices and Dozee was launched in India in 2019. | $9.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 18, 2022 | ||
| Dozee was founded by Mudit & Gaurav in 2015, with a vision to Simplify Healthcare to make it more accessible.Across the world, we follow a reactive approach to healthcare. Only when things go wrong we take a clinical intervention. Early intervention has the power to save countless lives and increase the quality of life. With a strongmotivation to move a brick in this direction, Mudit decided to quit his work as a race car engineer. However, he didn't leave the race cars behind. His inspiration from the sensing technology used in race cars led the foundation for Dozee. He then teamed up with Gaurav to build and evolve Dozee into India’s first contactless health monitor.After a series of intense R&D activities, partnering with premium research institutions such as NIMHANS, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular and Research, Dozee was proven to be 98.4% as accurate as medical grade devices and Dozee was launched in India in 2019. | $5.9M / Series A / Jul 21, 2021 | ||
| Dozee was founded by Mudit & Gaurav in 2015, with a vision to Simplify Healthcare to make it more accessible.Across the world, we follow a reactive approach to healthcare. Only when things go wrong we take a clinical intervention. Early intervention has the power to save countless lives and increase the quality of life. With a strongmotivation to move a brick in this direction, Mudit decided to quit his work as a race car engineer. However, he didn't leave the race cars behind. His inspiration from the sensing technology used in race cars led the foundation for Dozee. He then teamed up with Gaurav to build and evolve Dozee into India’s first contactless health monitor.After a series of intense R&D activities, partnering with premium research institutions such as NIMHANS, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular and Research, Dozee was proven to be 98.4% as accurate as medical grade devices and Dozee was launched in India in 2019. | $1.5M / Sep 15, 2020 | ||
| Dozee was founded by Mudit & Gaurav in 2015, with a vision to Simplify Healthcare to make it more accessible.Across the world, we follow a reactive approach to healthcare. Only when things go wrong we take a clinical intervention. Early intervention has the power to save countless lives and increase the quality of life. With a strongmotivation to move a brick in this direction, Mudit decided to quit his work as a race car engineer. However, he didn't leave the race cars behind. His inspiration from the sensing technology used in race cars led the foundation for Dozee. He then teamed up with Gaurav to build and evolve Dozee into India’s first contactless health monitor.After a series of intense R&D activities, partnering with premium research institutions such as NIMHANS, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular and Research, Dozee was proven to be 98.4% as accurate as medical grade devices and Dozee was launched in India in 2019. | $1.7M / Seed / Sep 15, 2020 | ||
| Recko is on a mission to automate every reconciliation flow in the transaction lifecycle, resulting in massive efficiency and accuracy gains. With the sudden blast of digital transactions, Enterprises, Banks and Financial institutions are finding it difficult to keep track of the money flowing across the organization. They are building productsthat enable them to handle and monitor massive volumes of transactional data without writing a single line of code and ensure money is flowing between the right beneficiaries, with right deductions, and at the right time. | $6M / Series A / Apr 02, 2020 | ||
| MyGate is a mobile-based society management app for gated communities, now simplifying the everyday lives of the managing committees, RWA, residents, visitors, service/facility providers, and security personnel across the country. Packed with community management features, it reduces many hassles—authorizing entry of delivery executives,paying society maintenance bills, raising a ticket to the facility manager, amenities booking—to a single click. Its product like MyGate ERP manages society accounting and payments, resolves complaints, and keeps the community up-to-date through a digital notice board. It was awarded as the best community management solution by Times business Awards and also named as one of India’s most innovative start-ups in 2018, the company today augments security and enhances convenience for over 3.5 million+ homes in 18 Indian cities. | $56M / Series B / Oct 17, 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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Shripati Acharya
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