Prasad Vanga

Prasad Vanga is the founder and CEO of Anthill Ventures, a platform specializing in speed scaling early growth stage startups within the Urban Lifestyle sector. With a global portfolio spanning across multiple continents, Anthill Ventures has seen remarkable success, boasting 2 unicorns, 1 SPAC, and 1 IPO, achieving an impressive 11.6X multiple over just 7 years. In his current capacity, Prasad spearheads global strategy, fund management, and venture building at Anthill, blending his extensive corporate consulting, entrepreneurial, and startup investment experience to foster Scalable Companies with Speed.

Prasad Vanga has amassed over 20 years of experience aiding senior executives from renowned organizations such as Nike, Nestle, Novartis, and Google in driving business transformations. His forte lies in assisting senior leaders in uncovering their organization's core competencies and orchestrating change management frameworks to harness their culture for driving substantial transformations. Alongside his role at Anthill, Prasad serves as an Angel Investor, having successfully backed companies like Medplus (IPO), Zenoti (recently achieving unicorn status), and Tynker (recently acquired by Baijus), yielding exits exceeding 20X.

Prasad is an active alumnus of the Stanford Business School and a board advisor to the ISB SRITNE center of excellence. His accomplishments have garnered recognition in various reputable media outlets such as CNN, Entrepreneur, Forbes Asia, Business Standard, Economic Times, and the Washington Post. Prasad's educational background includes completing the Stanford Executive Program at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and studying at the Fortune Institute of International Business. Prior to establishing Anthill Ventures, he served as the Founder and Chief Accelerator at the organization and held the position of Vice President of Change Management & Technology Partnerships at GENPACT.