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Pranay Desai

Managing Director at Z47 (fka Matrix Partners India)

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Overview

Work Experience

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Z47 (fka Matrix Partners India)

  • Managing Director

    2021 - Current

    I lead B2B Software investments at Z47 (fka Matrix Partners India). If you are working on an idea, drop me a message! Z47 has been backing ambitious founders since 2006, building for India and for the globe. We have invested $1.5 Billion and invest in early-stage businesses (seed to series B) and have backed companies like Ola, Razorpay, Dailyhunt, Ofbusiness, OneCard and MoEngage. I invest in AI applications, vertical software, and developer tools and have invested in and/or supported the following: Moengage, Toddle, Rocketlane, 100ms, Murf AI, Atomicwork, Sifthub, Greylabs AI, and one in stealth.

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GreyLabs AI

  • Investor

    2024

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SiftHub

  • Investor

    2023

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Atomicwork

  • Investor

    2022

MA

Murf AI

  • Investor

    2022

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100ms

  • Investor

    2022

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Rocketlane

  • Investor

    2021

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MoEngage

  • Investor

    2021

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Freshworks

  • Director, Growth Marketing

    2019 - 2021

    Led a team of 40+ marketing and creative professionals and owned revenue-focused marketing objectives for our customer service products.

  • Head of Enterprise Marketing

    2018 - 2019

    Led the 20-member global enterprise marketing team at Freshworks. Supported 150% YoY growth of the enterprise business.

  • CEO's office

    2014 - 2017

    As the first member of the CEO's office, I worked on new initiatives and org building. - Setup sales operations and international sales offices - M&A - Acquired 9 companies - 1click, Konotor, Frilp, Framebench, Chatimity, Airwoot, Pipemonk, JoeHukum, Mobiopush - Investor relations and fundraising - $50M USD in 2015, and $55M USD in 2016 from Sequoia, Accel, Tiger Global and Google Capital

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