Amit Somani is currently a Managing Partner at Prime Venture Partners, an early-stage VC firm
based out of Bangalore.
Over the past 10 years, Prime has been the first institutional investor in several category
defining companies in India including WheelsEye, Quizizz, Niyo, MyGate, Dozee, Bolt, PlanetSpark
and many more. Prime is currently investing out of its fourth fund of US$120 million across
multiple sectors including Fintech, EdTech, HealthTech, Consumer Internet, Global SaaS, Gaming,
and Climate/EV plays. The fund has also recently had a spate of portfolio exits including Recko
to Stripe, Happay to Cred, Ezetap to Razorpay and Perpule to Amazon.
Amit brings over 25 years’ of global experience in technology and internet industries. He has
held Product and Tech Leadership roles at Google, Makemytrip and IBM including over a dozen
years at Silicon Valley. As the Chief Products Officer for MakeMyTrip, Amit led the entire
online product portfolio and was a part of the leadership team that took the company public on
NASDAQ in 2010. Prior, one of the Ads products Amit led at Google went on to win the Founders
Award. Amit has also been named LinkedIn India TopVoices in 2018 and 2019.
Amit holds a B.S Computer Science (Gold medalist) from Indian Institute of Technology Varanasi
and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Amit loves to
travel around the world, is a sports enthusiast, enjoys reading and is a fusion chef!
