Founder & CEO, Anthill Ventures

Prasad Vanga founded Anthill Ventures, a speed scaling platform for early-growth stage start-ups. Within two years, Anthill has built a start-up portfolio of 22 companies across India, US and SE Asia that has grown by 3X in portfolio value. In his current role Mr. Vanga leads the strategy, fund management and venture building at Anthill.

Mr. Vanga has over 18 years of experience in helping senior executives from large organizations like Symantec, Nike, Nestle, Novartis, Wachovia, HSBC and YES Bank to drive business transformations. His expertise is to help senior leaders discover the core competence of their organizations and design a change management framework that allows them to leverage their culture to drive large transformations.

Mr. Vanga also has the experience of an entrepreneur who built a $25-million company within three years, and as an investor he has backed several successful companies like Medplus, Zenoti and Tynker which provided exits of >12X.

He brings a unique expertise of combining large corporate consulting, entrepreneurship and start-up investments experience. This experience enables him to combine corporate scalability and start-up agility in creating scalable companies with speed.

He is a board advisor to ISB (Indian School of Business) SRITNE center of excellence, Charter Member (TiE), Member (Hyderabad Angels) and an active alumnus of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. His achievements have been quoted in several media, including Entrepreneur, Forbes Asia, Business Standard, Economic Times and The Washington Post.