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Amit Somani

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Managing Partner at Prime Venture Partners
📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Amit Somani is the Managing Partner at Prime Venture Partners, focusing on early-stage disruptive product companies. His extensive background includes leadership roles as Chief Products Officer at MakeMyTrip and Group Product Manager at Google, where a product he led won the Founders Award. People who have worked with him describe him as a competent, top-notch, and amazing leader.

Outside of his venture capital role, Amit is a sports enthusiast, enjoys reading, traveling, and is a self-described fusion chef. He is also a Founding Angel at The/Nudge Institute, an organization committed to poverty alleviation in India, and actively volunteers with groups like TiE and NASSCOM to support the startup ecosystem.

Unique fact: He holds a patent for a data recovery method in transactional databases using write-ahead logging and file caching.

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Experience
24 Years
Current Role
Managing Partner
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Early-Stage Investing
As Managing Partner at Prime Venture Partners, he focuses on being the first institutional investor in high-potential, category-creating tech startups.
AI Adoption
He actively writes and speaks about the importance of professionals using AI tools to innovate and disrupt their own jobs to stay adaptable.
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Career

Work history

1-2015
Managing Partner
Prime Venture Partners
1-2022
Founding Angel
The/Nudge Institute
5-2014 - 5-2016
Advisory Board Member
MakeMyTrip.com
1-2010 - 5-2014
Chief Products Officer
MakeMyTrip.com
1-2009 - 1-2010
Group Product Manager, Google AdWords Keyword Recommendations
Google, Inc
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Education
8-1993 - 5-1995
MS
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1989 - 1993
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)
Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi
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