Praveen Rohith Ganesan

Partner at Cedar Ventures · venture capital, board work

Cedar Ventures

Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

12+ years experience

Delhi Technological University

English, Hindi, Kannada

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Overview

Partner at Cedar Ventures, backing fintech companies. Backed 16 founders at pre-seed and seed. Before that: Nykaa and Razorpay. I mentor first-time managers when I can.

Good reasons to reach out

Working sessions on due diligence
Questions about search and ranking
Thoughtful intros to people in my field

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Agency or outsourcing pitches
Requests to fix your code for free

Slower in the last week of each quarter

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board workventure capitaldue diligence

Experience

Partner
May 2025 - Present
Cedar Ventures · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Reduced cloud spend on search by 20% in two quarters.
- Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion.
Staff ML Engineer
Oct 2021 - May 2025
Nykaa · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
- Caught $7 million of fraud in the first year of the new models.
Staff Backend Engineer
Oct 2018 - Oct 2021
Razorpay · 3 yr · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Shipped 16 launches on the search team without a rollback.
Senior Engineering Manager
Jan 2017 - Jun 2018
BrowserStack · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Led the migration of 41 services to board work.
Senior Engineering Manager
Mar 2015 - Jan 2017
Nvidia · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Moved 71% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

Delhi Technological University
B.Tech, Finance
2009 - 2013

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