Pranav Pai Founding Partner, 3one4 Capital
Pranav Pai is the Founding Partner and Chief Investment Officer at 3one4 Capital - an early stage
venture capital fund based in Bangalore, India.
Pranav leads investments and portfolio construction at 3one4 Capital. As CIO at 3one4, he has made
over 60 seed and venture capital investments across several investment categories in India and the
US. He has been integral in leading 3one4’s investments in their category-leading companies that
include Licious, BetterPlace, Open, YourStory, Faircent, DarwinBox, Pocket Aces, Begin, Loantap,
Jupiter, and Tracxn. The fund has been consistently ranked as one of India's top VC firms. Pranav
serves on the boards of several of the companies in the portfolio.
Pranav also leads 3one4’s Corporate Development and Investor Relations efforts. Between 2015 and
2019, 3one4 has closed four funds for a combined corpus of INR 800 Cr/USD 110 Mn and has raised
capital from some of the top institutional pools of capital in India, USA, Japan, and Singapore. Pranav
works closely with institutional and strategic investors to help develop the venture ecosystem in India
and to increase global allocations to the asset class.
Through an independent dedicated LP strategy, Pranav also engages with an extended funding
ecosystem of over 30 different investment vehicles across private equity over different sub assetclasses such as early and growth stage venture capital, public markets, real estate project financing,
and venture debt in India and the US. His engagement with the ecosystem is driven by the objective of
building feed-forward loops from venture to other alternative segments and develop the pipeline for
listings in India.
Pranav is deeply involved with the startup ecosystem in India. As Co-President of the Stanford Angels
and Entrepreneurs network in the country, Pranav continues to help cultivate a cross-border
cooperative system of innovation in the early stage between academia, corporations, market leaders,
investors, subject-matter experts, and tech startup founders. Pranav also served as an Investment
Committee Advisor of the Reliance Jio Gennext Accelerator in Mumbai.
Previously, he was an early employee and Lead Product Manager at EdCast, an education technology
startup in the San Francisco Bay Area. At EdCast, Pranav helped launch multiple products that
continue to serve several Fortune 100 clients and raised capital from top tier venture capital and
corporate investment firms like Softbank, GE Capital, and Menlo Ventures.
Pranav was awarded the “35 under 35” for 2017 by Entrepreneur Magazine and the “40 under 40”
Alternative Investments Professionals of India for 2020 by the Association of International Wealth
Management of India (AIWMI) and the Indian Association of Alternative Investment Funds (IAAIF).
Pranav graduated with a Master's in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and with a
Bachelor's in Electronics and Communications Engineering from RV College, Bangalore
Pranav Pai is the Founding Partner and Chief Investment Officer at 3one4 Capital - an early stage
venture capital fund based in Bangalore, India.
Pranav leads investments and portfolio construction at 3one4 Capital. As CIO at 3one4, he has made
over 60 seed and venture capital investments across several investment categories in India and the
US. He has been integral in leading 3one4’s investments in their category-leading companies that
include Licious, BetterPlace, Open, YourStory, Faircent, DarwinBox, Pocket Aces, Begin, Loantap,
Jupiter, and Tracxn. The fund has been consistently ranked as one of India's top VC firms. Pranav
serves on the boards of several of the companies in the portfolio.
Pranav also leads 3one4’s Corporate Development and Investor Relations efforts. Between 2015 and
2019, 3one4 has closed four funds for a combined corpus of INR 800 Cr/USD 110 Mn and has raised
capital from some of the top institutional pools of capital in India, USA, Japan, and Singapore. Pranav
works closely with institutional and strategic investors to help develop the venture ecosystem in India
and to increase global allocations to the asset class.
Through an independent dedicated LP strategy, Pranav also engages with an extended funding
ecosystem of over 30 different investment vehicles across private equity over different sub assetclasses such as early and growth stage venture capital, public markets, real estate project financing,
and venture debt in India and the US. His engagement with the ecosystem is driven by the objective of
building feed-forward loops from venture to other alternative segments and develop the pipeline for
listings in India.
Pranav is deeply involved with the startup ecosystem in India. As Co-President of the Stanford Angels
and Entrepreneurs network in the country, Pranav continues to help cultivate a cross-border
cooperative system of innovation in the early stage between academia, corporations, market leaders,
investors, subject-matter experts, and tech startup founders. Pranav also served as an Investment
Committee Advisor of the Reliance Jio Gennext Accelerator in Mumbai.
Previously, he was an early employee and Lead Product Manager at EdCast, an education technology
startup in the San Francisco Bay Area. At EdCast, Pranav helped launch multiple products that
continue to serve several Fortune 100 clients and raised capital from top tier venture capital and
corporate investment firms like Softbank, GE Capital, and Menlo Ventures.
Pranav was awarded the “35 under 35” for 2017 by Entrepreneur Magazine and the “40 under 40”
Alternative Investments Professionals of India for 2020 by the Association of International Wealth
Management of India (AIWMI) and the Indian Association of Alternative Investment Funds (IAAIF).
Pranav graduated with a Master's in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and with a
Bachelor's in Electronics and Communications Engineering from RV College, Bangalore
