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Karthik Prabhakar is Managing Director and Global Head of Fundraising, at Chiratae Ventures. He has been part of the Indian tech ecosystem since 2005 with experience spanning engineering, rapid prototyping, marketing, fundraising, investment advisory and portfolio management. Karthik has led with investments in NestAway, PlaySimple (acq by MTG), PlayShifu, EarlySalary, Blowhorn, Living Consumer (stake sold), Tamasha.live, GoodMeetings.ai and part of the deal team in Newgen (BSE: NEWGEN), Manthan Systems (stake sold), AgroStar and Vayana Networks.
Karthik was recognized as one among the 40 Under 40 in the alternative investments space in India by AAAIF. For three consecutive years from 2016 to 2018, Karthik was recognized as one among the global top 100 Rising Stars in the venture industry by Global Corporate Venturing, held in California, US.
Prior to Chiratae Ventures, Karthik worked with Intel in their Ideas to Reality team, a technology incubator focused on building IoT products around the Intel Atom processor. As a tech marketing person, he played a key role in rapid prototyping, conceptualizing field trial plans and creating Go-To-Market strategies for new product ideas in retail, digital advertising and video surveillance. Karthik was also actively involved in recruiting and mentoring new members for the group. Prior to that, he worked in the embedded systems team building security software for network processors.
Karthik has also worked on developing innovative IoT/embedded solutions and has co-authored a patent in the area of Wireless Networks.
Karthik holds a Bachelors degree in Information Science from RV College of Engineering and a PGDM from IIM Bangalore.
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Asia
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Karthik Prabhakar is the Executive Director & Global Head - Fundraising at Chiratae Ventures, based in India, Asia. With a background in Financial Services, Karthik Prabhakar has a rich history of leadership and innovation. Karthik Prabhakar studied BS Science @ R.V. College of Engineering. Explore their detailed professional journey, key connections, and contributions to the industry on our platform.
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Annouced Date | Organization Name | Funding Round | Money Raised |
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Jan 17, 2022 | nCore Games | Series A - nCore Games | 10.0M |
Nov 14, 2022 | Landmark Games | Seed Round - Landmark Games | 4.6M |
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Annouced Date | Organization Name | Funding Round | Investor Name | Money Raised |
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Jul 21, 2020 | - | Series A - Play Shifu | Chiratae Ventures | 3.4M |
Apr 06, 2021 | - | Series B - Play Shifu | Chiratae Ventures | 17.0M |
Aug 06, 2021 | Goodmeetings | Seed Round - Goodmeetings | Chiratae Ventures | 1.6M |
Oct 20, 2021 | Tamasha | Seed Round - Tamasha | Chiratae Ventures | 3.0M |
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