Our Team

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Abhinav Gupta

Venture Partner
Abhinav co-founded Rocket Fuel (NASDAQ: FUEL), the leading provider of artificial intelligence advertising solutions. Prior to that, he was an engineering director at Yahoo!, where he led the development of their next-generation behavior-targeting platform. As a founding member of the behavioral targeting group at Yahoo!, he helped cultivate a start-up environment, building the team and platform from scratch. He holds a B. Tech in computer science from the IIT Delhi, and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin. He has co-authored almost twenty patents in the areas of database queries and optimization, behavioral targeting, and web-based user analytics. Abhinav combines an acute sense of business acumen and technology depth, to mentor our portfolio companies on their path to scale-up. https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhinav-gupta-b1977

Abhishek Jain

CFO & Partner
Abhishek has over 12 years of experience in the areas of investment banking and working with startups. He has had a rich experience in the public equity market and is well entrenched in the startup ecosystem. He has looked at the startup journey through various lenses as an entrepreneur, advisor to both venture funds and startups, investor, banker and employee. In his last role he was the CFO of YourStory. At Pravega, Abhishek guides our portfolio companies in the areas of finance and strategy. He is a CA and has done his MBA from IIM Lucknow. https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhishekjain81

Mukul Singhal

Co-founder & Partner
Mukul has over 10 years of venture investing experience in India. In the past, he has led investments and served on the boards of companies like UrbanClap, Industry Buying, TravelTriangle, NoBroker, AutoNinja, PropTiger, Bobble App and Tracxn. He invests in Consumer Internet, Mobililty and Marketplaces. He holds a B.Tech from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from ISB, Hyderabad. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mukuls97

Rohit Jain

Co-founder & Partner
Rohit has 15 years of technology & product experience in companies like Google, Microsoft, and IBM Research. He holds multiple patents and has published a number of research papers. In the past, he has led investments and served on boards of companies like CoverFox, TravelTriangle, Walnut, AutoNinja, Nobroker, Qikwell, and Zoomo. He invests in the Fintech, Marketplaces, Mobility & Enterprise sectors. He holds a B.Tech in computer science from IIT Delhi & a master's in computer science from the University of North Carolina. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohit-jain-323a703/

Ruchira Sharma

Associate
Ruchira holds a B.Tech & M.Tech from IIT Delhi. In the past, she has been a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, where she supported clients across the Finance, Industrial Goods and Consumers Goods sectors. She has also served as the Executive Aide to the President of the Public Health Foundation of India - a not-for-profit organization supported by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Prior to joining Pravega, she was with Helion Advisers, an early stage Indian venture capital fund. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruchira-sharma1008

Vinay Menon

Co-founder & Partner
Vinay has over eighteen years of Investment Banking experience with JPMorgan and Kotak Mahindra, where he has held multiple leadership roles including Managing Director, Head Of ECM and Co-Head of Investment Banking Coverage, JPMorgan. He has helped build the market-leading Capital Markets Franchise. He has led numerous marquee capital raising and advisory transactions across private and public sector. He has been an active angel investor across sectors like Big Data Analytics, Logistics, Vertical E-Commerce, among others. https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinay-menon-15476a12