Amit Somani
Managing Partner at Prime Venture Partners and Product & Tech Leader
Bangalore, India
Joined December 2024
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Summary
Amit Somani is a highly experienced product and technology leader with over 25 years in the global tech and internet industries, including significant tenures at IBM, Google, and MakeMyTrip. His expertise spans product management, engineering, and strategic leadership, contributing to innovative solutions and successful company growth, including MakeMyTrip's NASDAQ IPO. productleadership+1
Transitioning from a successful career in product leadership, Amit is now a Managing Partner at Prime Venture Partners in Bangalore, India. He focuses on early-stage investments in disruptive product companies, particularly in Fintech and SaaS, leveraging his entrepreneurial and operational background to mentor and support founders in the Indian startup ecosystem. productleadership+2
An innovator at heart, Amit holds multiple US patents and has been recognized for his contributions to technology. Notable achievements include winning the Google Founders Award for a search-based keyword tool and the Best Global Innovation Award for RoutePlanner. His academic background includes an MS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.S. from IIT Varanasi, where he was a gold medalist. productleadership+3
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System and method for distributed querying and presentation of information from heterogeneous data sources
January 1, 2010A patent detailing a method, system, and computer program product for retrieving and organizing networked data, with fetch rules and extraction rules for automatic collection and presentation of information.
YouServ
January 1, 2002A research paper presented in the Proceedings of the 11th International World Wide Web Conference, describing a system for high availability web hosting and file sharing using pooled desktop computing resources.
Systems, methods and computer program products for securing electronic transactions
A patent filed to protect inventions related to securing electronic transactions.
Data recovery in a transactional database using write-ahead logging and file caching
A patent describing a system and method for efficient data recovery in transactional database systems.