Team - A-Scale

Meet the Team

Prasad Vanga

Prasad Vanga is the founder & CEO of Anthill Ventures, a speed scaling platform for early growth stage startups. Within two years, Anthill has built a startup portfolio of 22 companies across India, US and SE Asia that has grown by 3X in portfolio value.

CEO & Founder

Rajeev Menon

Rajeev Menon, helps start-ups scale with speed by bringing big business thinking to early and growth stage start-ups, specifically the rigor and process of expanding and achieving scale, preparing them for growth and creating synergistic connections between start-ups, corporates & inve...

Partner at Anthill Ventures

Mahesh Balani

Mahesh Balani, has over 20 years experience working with global corporations across services and manufacturing. He has managed global businesses with a strong bias for execution and operational excellence.

Partner at Anthill Ventures

Lakshmi Nambiar

Lakshmi Nambiar, has been in the business for over a decade by working in private equity syndication and mergers and acquisitions for technology companies in India and abroad.

Partner at Anthill Ventures

Amlan Baijal

18+ years experience in Investment Banking and managing family offices in Middle East, SE Asia & India.

Venture Partner

Devang Mehta

Devang Mehta is responsible for various activities in the Fund's operations including structuring, fund marketing, devising fund strategy, Investments and advising portfolio companies on growth strategies.

Partner at Anthill Ventures

Sailesh Sigatapu

Sailesh Sigatapu, is responsible for the overall delivery of services and India operations management. Sailesh has over 10 years of experience in the IT industry, having served various positions in the software delivery and management domain and having been actively involved in securing, m...

Partner at Anthill Ventures

Bharani Setlur

Bharani Setlur, brings 14 years of experience in building and scaling startups. As an entrepreneur he built and sold his startup, as well as being part of core and executive teams of companies at different stages, a unicorn, large fast growth, series A & B, angle funded & bootstrap...

Partner at Anthill Ventures

Zaran Bhagwagar

Zaran Bhagwagar helps drive Anthill's investment and syndication practise across Singapore, Israel and India. He is responsible for sourcing, structuring and executing deals within Anthill's investment and syndication practise. He comes with international experience in Venture...

Investment Associate

Praveen Mokkapati

An IIM Bangalore graduate with a dual-degree in engineering and more than a decade of experience in product marketing, sales, business development and product management. Praveen's experience spans across manufacturing and services sectors in India and ASEAN.

Associate Partner at Anthill Ventures

Trisha Gupta

Trisha Gupta helps drive Anthill's speed scaling services, while based in Mumbai. She works on business development, network building and operational management of Anthill Factory's new market access programs. She is responsible for setting up the A-Scale program, building out ...

Manager, New Programs & Markets