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Prashant

Prashant Malik

General Partner

He is the Founding General Partner at Tykhe. He plays a vital role in all aspects of the fund, bringing in his vast experience of 27 years as an Engineer, Leader, Entrepreneur. Investor and Advisor.


He is a world-renowned Technologist. He was amongst the first 50 engineers at Facebook in Palo Alto. Worked with Mark Zuckerberg and the team to build many of the early Facebook features. He is an Ex-Microsoft engineer who holds many patents in various technology fields like DRM, Security, Files systems, Databases, Social platforms etc. He is also the creator of open-source software Apache Cassandra which is a distributed storage system used by the likes of Apple, Netflix, Instagram, Walmart, uber, Airbnb etc. He was also the founder of Limeroad a social e-commerce platform. He is currently into investing, advising and incubating technology start-ups.


He is an early investor/advisor in over 50 start-ups, many of them are now unicorns coming out of India like UrbanClap, shadow fax, offbiz, Zomato etc. and some key acquisitions in Israel like Jump by uber, cnvr.io by Intel. He is also an early investor/advisor in many blockchain companies like Coin Switch (funded by Sequoia now), Neo bank Juno (funded by Sequoia now), Bluezelle etc. He is a graduate of IIT Delhi Computer Science. In his free time, he likes to play Poker, Ride adventure motorcycles and still codes for fun.

MANAGEMENT

Ganesh Kompella

Ganesh Kompella

Investment Partner

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Founding Investment Partner. Software programmer turned entrepreneur and investor. 50+ blockchain investments since 2015.

Ethereum, Ripple, Tezos, Aave, Polkadot. Ex CTO, Aesthetic Record EMR a healthcare SaaS servicing 4 million+ patients across North America.

Ex Founder, Shine Web Services, enterprise software development company with many Fortune500 clients.

Tanuj Moorjani

Tanuj Moorjani

Investment Partner

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Founding Investment Partner. Previously, he was the founder of “Exosphere” one of the top 3 DeFi hedge funds on dHedge in 2021.

An independent crypto-asset analyst and fund manager, consulting with hedge funds and advising DeFi projects.

Ex-SaaS founder who started and successfully exited multiple companies.

Abhineet Sonkar

Abhineet Sonkar

Investment Partner

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15 Years of Business & P&L leadership experience across enterprise, SaaS and b2c companies.

Previously, GM @ RateGain (leading travel SaaS enterprise) – scaled company 5X and successfully IPO’d in Indian Public Market.

Ex Digital Leader @ HCL, a $10 Bn + technology conglomerate. Growth Advisor & Investor in ventures since 2015. IIT Delhi | IIM Bangalore

Neeraj Bagdia

Neeraj Bagdia

Chief Technology Officer

Neeraj Bagdia
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A technology professional with rich experience of working with early stage ventures and large enterprises.

He has a research paper in Data Mining along with 4 patents on tech-driven advertising to his name.

He has led engineering teams and products for Amazon, Grofers, Limeroad and PocketPills.

Varun Sethi

Varun Sethi

General Counsel

Varun Sethi
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Widely recognized as No. 1 Blockchain Lawyer in SEA. Ex. Investment Banker
Karan Ahuja

Karan Ahuja

Operations | Investor Relations

Karan Ahuja
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A seasoned entrepreneur adept in managing all aspects of business - right from strategy, operations, business development and customer relationship management.

6+ years of successful investments in projects like Graph, Polkadot, UNI, XRP etc.

Previously, he has led automation and digital transformation for leading organizations.

RESEARCH

Atul Kamble

Atul Kamble

Research Partner

Atul Kamble
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Charan Kapoor

Charan Kapoor

Research Lead L1 & L2 PROTOCOLS

Charan Kapoor
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Sanchit Arora

Sanchit Arora

Research Lead DEFI, NFT, METAVERSE

Sanchit Arora
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Sona Bateshar

Sona Bateshar

Research Lead INFRASTRUCTURE

Sona Bateshar
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Ayush

Ayush

Research Analyst GAMEFI

Ayush

TECHNOLOGY

Prateek

Prateek

Solidity & DAPP expert

Prateek
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Nitesh

Nitesh

Smart Contract Specialist

Nitesh
Vijay

Vijay

Smart Contract Specialist

Vijay
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VENTURE PARTNERS

Apurva Chamaria

Apurva Chamaria

Head of Startups & Venture Capital @ Google

Apurva Chamaria
Top Angel Investor in SEA