Amit Somani

Managing Partner

2015 - Current

We typically invest in 6-8 companies per year. All partners work with all entrepreneurs for the first 12-18 months of the journey. As a firm, we have invested in over 40 companies in the last 9 years. What we offer: (1) We prefer to be the first institutional investor in your company so can be helpful as you build out your company. (2) All partners work actively with the entrepreneurs post-investment for 12-18 months post-investment. (3) We move quickly and deliberately, whether we invest or not. Even if we say no, we will give you 3 reasons why we are choosing to pass on the investment (knowing fully well that we can often be wrong). Some of our companies include WheelsEye, MyGate, KredX, Niyo, Happay, Sunstone, Quizizz and more. Please give us a call or drop us an email if we meet your criteria and you meet ours :) We would be delighted and privileged to play a part in your entrepreneurial journey!

Founding Angel

2022

The Nudge Institute is an action institute that works with governments, markets, and civil society to build resilient livelihoods for all. One of its main goals is to eliminate poverty in India by 2047.

Advisory Board Member

2014 - 2016

Chief Products Officer

2010 - 2014

Delight travelers who want to research, plan and book travel online. MMYT is largest OTA in India and now listed on NASDAQ. Responsible for the next generation of the Makemytrip.com web site (also called 3.0), end to end P&L for several business including Hotels, Mobile; also own the Innovation initiatives, Content and User Experience.

Group Product Manager, Google AdWords Keyword Recommendations

2009 - 2010

Global responsibility for all keyword recommendations for Google's advertisers for Search (think SEM and a bit of SEO from the horse's mouth). One of the flagship products that I own is the Search-based Keyword tool (www.google.com/sktool). This tool is at the two key pieces of Google's business - Search & Ads. Read more about this tool at http://bit.ly/sbkt - This product won the Google Founders' Award (Given less than 10 times in the entire history of Google).

Head of Mobile Products, Asia-Pacific

2008 - 2009

Leading product management for Mobile Products for Asia-Pacific market for Google. Responsible for Product Strategy, Roadmap, and Business relationships for the region.

Product Management Head, Search, Consumer & Infrastructure

2007 - 2008

Leading Product Management for Web Search (http://www.google.co.in/), Consumer Applications including GMail, News, etc. and Infrastructure efforts for India market.

Director, Discovery Products

2001 - 2007

Director of Development for IBM's Discovery portfolio which includes our Search (OmniFind), Content Discovery (iPhrase acquisition) and Content Integration offerings. Responsible for WW engineering and product management for this portfolio.

Software Engineer

1995 - 2001

Software Engineering and Research in the areas of Data driven E-commerce applications, Peer-to-Peer architectures, Database Query and Transaction Processing and Database performance.