Prathamesh Shah

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Angel Investor at Independent · Developer infrastructure · open source, developer tools

Independent
Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
14+ years experience
IIT Guwahati
English, Hindi, Marathi
Investing
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Overview

21 years around startups; now investing in developer infrastructure. Backed 27 founders at pre-seed and seed. Most at home with open source and developer tools. Former debater; now I argue with spreadsheets.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in developer infrastructure
  • Working sessions on venture capital
Please don't message about
  • Fund-of-funds solicitations
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Decks without a clear ask

Checks messages twice a week

Skills
open sourcedeveloper toolsventure capital
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $500k cheques into pre-seed developer infrastructure in the US

Cheque size
$500k
Stages
Seed, Series A
Sectors
Developer infrastructure, climate
Geographies
India and Southeast Asia
Lead or follow
Lead
Decision time
One meeting and a partner call
How I help
Fundraising strategy for the next round

Usually the first cheque in. We reply to every founder.

Mumbai, Indiaopen sourcedeveloper toolsventure capital
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Experience

  1. Angel Investor
    Feb 2025 - Present
    Independent · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Led or co-led 37 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Sit on 4 boards.
    • Previously an operator for 6 years before investing.
  2. Staff Data Engineer
    Mar 2022 - Feb 2025
    JPMorgan Chase · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Built the marketing science models now used in 3 product decisions a quarter.
    • Replaced 86 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  3. Full-Stack Engineer
    Jan 2019 - Mar 2022
    Tata Motors · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Shipped 24 launches on the Android team without a rollback.
  4. Principal Engineer
    Nov 2015 - Dec 2018
    Groww · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Sit on 7 boards.
  5. Director of Engineering
    Jul 2012 - Nov 2015
    Intuit · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Led the migration of 41 services to venture capital.

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Education

  1. IIT Guwahati
    B.Tech, Computer Science
    2001 - 2005

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