Aug 2023 – Jul 2024 · 11 mos · Remote

Jul 2021 – Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Remote

Mar 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Remote

• Business | Growth | Customer Success | Whatever it takes
• Heading India Growth, Business Operations, and Revenues

May 2017 – Present · 9 yrs · Bangalore

• Identifying early-stage startups and helping them to grow 10x with our help.
• We also provide angel funding (50-300K USD) for startups
• The angel investors from Eagle10 Ventures include serial entrepreneurs, Corporate senior management and domain experts who can support and mentor the startups for the execution.
• We are over 1500+ HNI global startup network, widely recognized as of the top angel networks in India
• Portfolio includes
• Fynn, Liger Mobility, CricHeros, BlackBow Whiskey, Salt.pe , KWh Motors, Starya. Burger Singh , Life and Pursuits, Piscium and others
• Awign ( acquired by MyNavi ) , ShaadiSaga ( Acquired by Bharat Matrimony)

Apr 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Healthcare startup focusing on connecting patients to the right treatment - Medissist
• Enabling Healthcare providers to enhance their customer (patients) acquisition, retention, revenue expansion. Scaled to 2M Revenues in 12 months through strategic partnerships with key Hospitals such as Manipal, Apollo, Fortis and others
• I lead the business and operations

Aug 2016 – Mar 2017 · 7 mos · Bangalore

• Building strategic partnerships and alliances with key players to boost business growth for Tapzo.
• Tapzo is an all in one app to get more things done: this could be anything - from recharging your phone to tech support, travel booking, holiday guidance, ordering groceries and food at your doorstep, helping you find the best deals & coupons and more. We've raised Rs.100 crore from Sequoia Capital and RuNet in May 2015.

May 2016 – Apr 2017 · 11 mos

• I am responsible for execution, program management of India Operations.
• Strategic Partnerships , Growth , Execution etc of Startup Leadership Program where we have 6 chapters with ~200 entrepreneurs undergoing SLP accelerator program.

May 2015 – Apr 2016 · 11 mos

• Leading Startup Leadership Program Bangalore for 2015-16 Year.
• Responsible for end to end planning,execution of Bangalore SLP.
• Ownership of
• 1. Marketing , Strategic Partnerships, Program Managament
• 2. Selection of 2015-16 startups
• 3. Planning the year program
• 4. Execution of the Program
• The year 2015-16 saw 33 startups graduate from SLP Bangalore, a 6 months accelerator program to mentor startups.
• I was responsible for execution of the program. Following are key initiatives undertaken beyond execution
• Strategic partnership with Google, Amazon, IBM, Societe Generale, Drop Café, NASSCOM and more
• Biggest Demo day in history of SLP worldwide with over 40 investors’ participation and sponsorship.
• First Program to raise funds for execution of Bangalore Demo day and first program chapter to be profitable.
• Fellows spend six months in a rigorous cross-disciplinary entrepreneurial-CEO training program that combines
• Mentoring from successful entrepreneurs
• Extensive participation in active VC, corporate, and entrepreneur network
• Coaching and professional development* fireside chats with entrepreneurs and VCs and
• Focused skill-building workshops for entrepreneurs
• and everything else to make founders learning kick-ass

Sep 2014 – Feb 2015 · 5 mos · Bangalore

• SLP is a highly selective 6-month program that attracts outstanding first-time and future Startup CEOs from diverse backgrounds with a history of achievement or expertise, and the potential to be a successful startup CEO.
• Fellows spend six months in a rigorous cross-disciplinary entrepreneurial-CEO training program that combines
• Mentoring from successful entrepreneurs
• Extensive participation in active VC, corporate, and entrepreneur network
• Coaching and professional development* fireside chats with entrepreneurs and VCs and
• Focused skill-building workshops.

Aug 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore

• Angel Investor in various startups including
• BoloIndya , ZVolv (Zestl) , PIBEAM, Awign (acquired), Matelabs, Salt.Pe, Piscium, Life and Pursuits, Unremot, KWH , ShaadiSaga, BlackBow Whiskey, CricHeroes, Naturally Yours, Glamplus, Liger etc

Feb 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore

• Go to man for fixing things and Growth Hacking. My specialty is figuring out "how to" in case of new initiatives , new challenges and specially when things do not move.
• Growth Hacking for various aspects involving Strategy, Business, Product , Marketing , Customer experience and Operations & Food , Drinks and Fun etc.
• My role involved few, but limited to this, activities like
• 1 Strategies to increase business growth through new initiatives, partnerships and refining existing business.
• 2 Improving customer acquisition channels, new product lines and optimizing current service channels.
• 3 Improving Customer LTV by figuring out how to up-sale products and services. Increased LTV to surpass the customer acquisition costs via Pilgrimage Vertical Strategies
• 4 Converting Customer care team to Customer Happiness Agents.
• I am Usually found giving improvement tips around and bringing smiles on coworkers and customers face in every possible situations.
• P.S. I also coach people to yoga tricks , meditation and sometimes help them play better cricket and have fun.

Sep 2012 – Feb 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

• Playerify is first sports platform which helps you to discover sports in locality.
• Finalist in Two prestigious [ and arguably the best] Startup Incubation Programs in India..
• On mission to change the way sports are played and managed !!
• The venture was founded and was active until March 2015. We are taking a little break to pump up firepower for relaunch later.

Jun 2010 – Sep 2012 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India , Shenzhen China | Chengdu , China | Beijing , China

• End 2 End System Integration Leader for Key Customer(s) in China
• Handled End2end System Integration and Delivery for HD Zapper Hybird VOD [ Cable + IP ] for several projects in China Market.
• Involved in the Downloadable Conditional Access Development and E2E Integration for Chinese Market.
• Managing Multi-Cultural Team [ India and China] for various customers.
• Member in technical setup of China R&D Center and trainings of all upcoming engineers
• Technical initiation and ownership of the NDS revolutionary Evolution KIT for Rapid Deployment of multi vendor STBs in china market.

Jan 2009 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Prashant is leading teams for key projects for largest European Cable Operator.
• Responsibilities include various project management and tracking activities as well as technical leadership.
• Prashant is also member of Quality Task Force which is defining various Quality Processes for PACE India

Feb 2006 – Dec 2008 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Prashant's responsibilities included
• OpenTV Core 2.0 Middleware Adaptation Component Development
• OpenTV PVR middleware Adaptation component Development
• PVR Function Owner
• Network Package Integration
• Technical Leadership
• Member of Technical Interview Panel

Feb 2006 – Apr 2008 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Prashant's responsibilities included :
• BootStrapLoader Development for various projects,
• instrumental in
• getting the BSL testing activities automated
• Design and development of application upgrade through USB interface
• Design of first PVR loader
• Driver Support and Project Integration for key broadcaster in brazil
• OpenTV Core 2.0 Middleware Adaptation Component Development
• OpenTV PVR middleware Adaptation component Development
• Conditional Access adaptation developement/support.
• Contributions for process improvement

Sep 2004 – Feb 2006 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bradford, United Kingdom

• Worked as STB Driver's consultant for PACE UK
• STB Drivers / MiddleWare [ OpenTV Core m/w] consulting to PACE UK Office for various driver supports in STB projects
• Primarily I worked on ST chipset with OpenTV Middleware.

Jul 2001 – Feb 2004 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• DSP Algorithms ,C/Assembly Code Optimizations for 54x/6x DSPs
• Finger Print Sensor Driver Development on TI's 6x/54x/55x processors.
• Finger print recognition and matching algorithm