Ramneek Gupta
Ramneek is the Founder and Managing Partner of Pruven Capital, an independent, returns driven venture firm. He brings a unique experience base from his past as a traditional venture investor, an early startup employee and a corporate venture investor to the mission of creating an investment platform - designed to help founders’ dramatically accelerate their go to market, by leveraging the unprecedented scale of our LPs.
Prior to founding Pruven, Ramneek was the Co-founder and co-lead of the venture investing platform at Citi, which he helped build into a leading investing program that delivered both strategic and financial returns for Citi. At Citi Ventures, he led all aspects of the platform's buildout including definition of the focus areas, hiring & development of the team, global expansion into Asia as well as commercialization of portfolio companies with Citi. He led investments in over 25 companies across fintech, ecommerce, payments, digital customer experience, digital servicing and enterprise IT that represent over $75B in market cap. Some of his notable investments included Square (NYSE: SQ), Jet.com (Acq by Walmart for $3.3B), DocuSign (NASDAQ: DOCU), Honey (Acq by Paypal for $4B), Grab (NASDAQ: GRAB), Datarobot, Feedzai, Zum, Homelight & Udaan.
Prior to Citi Ventures, Ramneek led business development at Zappedy (Acq by Groupon), was a Partner at Battery Ventures where he led the build out of their investment practice in India and held various product development roles at PMC Sierra and TiVo.
He is also an angel investor and has had the opportunity to partner with founders through early investments in companies like Robinhood (NASDAQ: Hood), CheckR, Ipsy, Vicarious (Acq by Alphabet), Maxxa and Gridspace.
Ramneek received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, where he graduated at the top of his class and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.