Prasad Vanga

Prasad Vanga is the founder & CEO of Anthill Ventures, a speed scaling platform for early growth stage start-ups in Urban Lifestyle. Anthill Ventures has built a global portfolio of 75 companies across India, US, Europe, Israel and SE Asia. With 1 unicorn, 1 Spac and 1 IPO under its belt, this venture scaler has already scaled to 11.6X multiple over 7 years. In his current role Prasad leads global strategy, fund management and venture building at Anthill Ventures.

Prasad comes with over 20 years of experience in helping senior executives from large organisations such as Nike, Nestle, Novartis and Google to drive business transformations. He specialises in facilitating senior leaders discover the core competence of their organisations and designing effective change management frameworks that allow them to leverage their culture and drive large transformations.

Prasad as an Angel Investor has backed several successful companies like Medplus (IPO), Zenoti (became a unicorn) and Tynker (acquired by Byju’s) that provided exits of >20X.

Prasad’s unique expertise involves combining large corporate consulting, entrepreneurship and start-up investments experience. This experience has enabled him to combine corporate scalability and start-up agility in creating Scalable Companies with Speed.

He was a board advisor to ISB (Indian School of Business) SRITNE centre of excellence and an active Alumni of the Stanford Business School. His achievements have been quoted in several media including CNN, Entrepreneur, Forbes Asia, Business Standard, Economic times and the Washington Post.