Prashant K. Gulati
Chief Executive Officer at Optimistix Ventures
Profile
Prashant K.
Gulati is the founder of SmartStartFund.
He is currently the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer at Optimistix Ventures since 2002, the Director at Chalo Mobility Pvt Ltd.
since 2019, the Director at Indian Documentary Foundation since 2012, the Chairperson at Prokraft India Pvt Ltd.
since 2011, the Advisor & Member of the Board at Remitware Payments, Inc. since 2015, the Advisor at Wrappup, Inc. since 2016, and the Advisor at Mistbox, Inc. since 2017.
Mr. Gulati has also held former positions as the Director at ADC Telecommunications, Inc. from 2000 to 2002, the Director at PairGain Technologies, Inc. from 1997 to 2001, the Director at AOL LLC from 2001 to 2006, and as a Trustee at The Indus Entrepreneurs.
He was also the President at TiE Dubai from 2009 to 2010, an Advisor at YouPlus, Inc. from 2015 to 2019, and a Senior Advisor at Dubai Future Accelerators and Dubai Future Foundation from 2016 to 2019.
Prashant K. Gulati active positions
| Companies | Position | Start |
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SmartStartFund
 SmartStartFund Investment ManagersFinance SmartStartFund (SmartStartFund) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Prashant K. Gulati. The firm is headquartered in Mountain View, California. | Founder | 01/09/2012 |
| Prokraft India Pvt Ltd. | Chairman | 01/09/2011 |
Wrappup, Inc.
 Wrappup, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Wrappup, Inc. engages in meeting productivity application services. It uses AI to auto-summarize meetings. The company was founded by Rami Salman, Ayush Chordia, and Rishav Jalan in 2015 and is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. | Consultant / Advisor | 01/07/2016 |
Chalo Mobility Pvt Ltd.
 Chalo Mobility Pvt Ltd. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Chalo Mobility Pvt Ltd. develops public transit mobile application. The firm provides routes for bus, train, metro, auto, and cab???; live timings with ETA???, and ticketing services. The company was founded by Vinayak Bhavnani, Nikhil Aggarwal, and Mohit Kumar Dubey and is headquartered in Mumbai, India. | Director/Board Member | 08/08/2019 |
Remitware Payments, Inc.
 Remitware Payments, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Remitware Payments, Inc. provides cross border foreign currency payment services. It offers Remitr, a money transfer platform for cross-border payments for family expenses, higher education, investments, loan repayments, insurance, utility bills payments and travel bookings. The firm also provides an application that enables the users to use its services through mobile phones. The company was founded by Kanchan Kumar, Sandeep Jhingran and Sandeep Todi in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. | Director/Board Member | 01/09/2015 |
Mistbox, Inc.
 Mistbox, Inc. Electronic Equipment/InstrumentsElectronic Technology Mistbox, Inc. provides smart misting system for air conditioners. It consists of integrated Wi-Fi and a mobile app to manage and track usage and savings, a solar panel, built-in sensors to detect the AC system operation, on board CPU and water treatment system. The company was founded by Josh Teekell and Andrew Parks in 2013 and is headquartered in Houston, TX. | Consultant / Advisor | 01/01/2017 |
| Optimistix Ventures | Chief Executive Officer | 01/04/2002 |
| Indian Documentary Foundation | Director/Board Member | 01/01/2012 |
Former positions of Prashant K. Gulati
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| Dubai Future Foundation | Consultant / Advisor | 31/12/2019 |
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| Private companies | 16 |
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SmartStartFund
SmartStartFund Investment ManagersFinance SmartStartFund (SmartStartFund) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Prashant K. Gulati. The firm is headquartered in Mountain View, California. | Finance |
The Indus Entrepreneurs
 The Indus Entrepreneurs Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services The Indus Entrepreneurs is a non-profit organization. It provides mentoring, networking, education and funding to entrepreneurs. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. | Commercial Services |
PairGain Technologies, Inc.
 PairGain Technologies, Inc. Telecommunications EquipmentElectronic Technology PairGain Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of telecommunications products based on high speed digital subscriber line technology. The company designs, manufactures, markets and supports a comprehensive line of digital communication products. The services of the company enable high speed data transmission for applications such as T1/E1, POTS, high speed internet access, telecomuting, local and wide area networking | Electronic Technology |
| AOL LLC /Bangalore Call Center Bus/ | Commercial Services |
| TiE Dubai | |
Youplus, Inc.
 Youplus, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Youplus, Inc. develops and operates a search platform. It offers Video Opinion Search Engine (VOISE). The company was founded by Shaukat Shamim and Bharat Vijay in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Technology Services |
| Dubai Future Accelerators | |
| Dubai Future Foundation | |
| Prokraft India Pvt Ltd. | |
Wrappup, Inc.
Wrappup, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Wrappup, Inc. engages in meeting productivity application services. It uses AI to auto-summarize meetings. The company was founded by Rami Salman, Ayush Chordia, and Rishav Jalan in 2015 and is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. | Technology Services |
Chalo Mobility Pvt Ltd.
Chalo Mobility Pvt Ltd. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Chalo Mobility Pvt Ltd. develops public transit mobile application. The firm provides routes for bus, train, metro, auto, and cab???; live timings with ETA???, and ticketing services. The company was founded by Vinayak Bhavnani, Nikhil Aggarwal, and Mohit Kumar Dubey and is headquartered in Mumbai, India. | Technology Services |
Remitware Payments, Inc.
Remitware Payments, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Remitware Payments, Inc. provides cross border foreign currency payment services. It offers Remitr, a money transfer platform for cross-border payments for family expenses, higher education, investments, loan repayments, insurance, utility bills payments and travel bookings. The firm also provides an application that enables the users to use its services through mobile phones. The company was founded by Kanchan Kumar, Sandeep Jhingran and Sandeep Todi in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. | Commercial Services |
Mistbox, Inc.
Mistbox, Inc. Electronic Equipment/InstrumentsElectronic Technology Mistbox, Inc. provides smart misting system for air conditioners. It consists of integrated Wi-Fi and a mobile app to manage and track usage and savings, a solar panel, built-in sensors to detect the AC system operation, on board CPU and water treatment system. The company was founded by Josh Teekell and Andrew Parks in 2013 and is headquartered in Houston, TX. | Electronic Technology |
ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
 ADC Telecommunications, Inc. Telecommunications EquipmentElectronic Technology ADC is a global leader in providing network infrastructure products and services that enable the profitable delivery of high-speed Internet, video, data, and voice services to residential, business and mobile subscribers worldwide. Their innovative, high-performance fiber connectivity and wireless coverage and capacity solutions support a broad range of network applications that help their customers provide new and advanced services to meet their own customers' unrelenting demand for bandwidth. Founded 75 years ago, ADC continues to build on a strong heritage of providing solutions and services that support its customers' migration to next-generation networks in many countries across the globe. As the leading service providers and enterprises worldwide invest in infrastructure that delivers broadband services to business, residential and mobile subscribers, ADC's breadth of solutions and experience, together with its strong financial position, make the company a reliable partner in addressing today's network realities and preparing for tomorrow's communications demands. | Electronic Technology |
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| Indian Documentary Foundation |
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