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Priyanka Agarwal Chopra

Managing Partner at IIMA Ventures

Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Overview 

Priyanka Agarwal Chopra is a Managing Partner at IIMA Ventures in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, with a background in product management and cloud computing. She has held leadership roles at prominent organizations like Bharat Innovation Fund and Piramal Sarvajal, showcasing expertise in venture capital and operational management. Priyanka's career highlights include serving as COO, CTO, and CFO at Piramal Sarvajal, as well as her current position as Managing Partner at IIMA Ventures, where she focuses on investing in early-stage companies in sectors like AgTech and Digital Health.

Work Experience 

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IIMA Ventures

  • Managing Partner

    2024 - Current

  • Managing Partner, Seed Investing

    2019

  • Chief Operating Officer

    2017

    CIIE is India's premier seed-investor and entrepreneurship centre housed at IIM Ahmedabad. Our mission is to identify and plug gaps in the Indian innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. We back innovative ventures across technology and impact areas such as energy, environment, agriculture, healthcare and affordable technologies by providing policy insights, market access, capital and operating support. We run incubators, accelerators and venture funds across sectors in India and actively work on converting our insights into knowledge that can influence the practice of incubation and entrepreneurship in India.

  • Director Portfolio

    2014 - 2016

    Providing strategic, advisory and fund-raising support to 80+ companies in the CIIE portfolio.

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Bharat Innovation Fund

  • Venture Partner

    2018

    Bharat Innovation Fund is a pre-Series A and Series A fund set up to catalyse IP-driven disruptive technology ventures in large emerging sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, renewables and advanced technology solutions.

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Piramal Sarvajal

  • COO, CTO, CFO

    2010 - 2014

    Piramal Sarvajal is an innovative social impact startup in the community-based drinking water space seeking to provide access to clean, drinking water to India’s underserved using technology and community engagement. I joined Piramal Sarvajal as the joint COO with a mandate for building systems and processes that would organize it for growth and market leadership. As the CTO I led the teams responsible for designing, developing and commercializing key technology disruptors including Soochak (remote management and monitoring systems for Filtration Plants) and the world’s first Water ATM – a cloud-based, solar-powered cashless vending ecosystem that enables 24/7 availability of clean drinking water at the last mile. I was also responsible for all financial processes including planning, budgeting, reporting and Key Results Area (KRA) setting for the entire organization as it's CFO.

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IBM

  • Senior Consultant, Strategy and Change, Internal Practice

    2009 - 2010

    Advising Senior Executives at IBM on business and operational issues as part of the Corporate Strategy team at IBM.

IBM is an IT technology and consulting firm providing computer hardware, software, infrastructure, and hosting services.

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Sun Microsystems

  • Member of Technical Staff, Solaris Network Performance Team

    2000 - 2006

Sun Microsystems is a multinational vendor of computers, computer software and hardware, and information technology services.

Raised $1,700,000.00 from Kleiner Perkins.

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