Amit Prakash

Active Investor

Angel Investor

Saratoga, California

Amit Prakash, Angel Investor is an active investor based in Saratoga, California. This profile covers what Amit Prakash backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Dr. Amit Prakash is an Angel Investor. He is Co-Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer at ThoughtSpot. He has extensive experience in building large-scale analytics systems. Started his career as a Software Engineer at Microsoft in 2004, where he was responsible for building the distributed system that could load web graphs and do PageRank-like computations. He also developed spam resistant version of PageRank (an algorithm used by Google Search to rank web pages in their search engine results) at Microsoft. In 2007, he joined Google as a Tech Lead, where he led multiple teams responsible for improving analytical algorithms for AdSense, contributing $50M+ quarter-on-quarter growth to the business. He did his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1998. Subsequently, he went on to obtain his PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004.

Investor type: Angel
Stages: Early Stage VentureSeed
Invests in: EdTech
Location: Saratoga, California
Typical check: $375K
Past investments: 2

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