{"id":117,"date":"2007-01-31T17:40:55","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T17:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/?p=117"},"modified":"2012-08-17T06:01:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T06:01:04","slug":"pravin-gandhi-of-seed-fund-on-early-stage-investing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/2007\/01\/31\/pravin-gandhi-of-seed-fund-on-early-stage-investing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pravin Gandhi of SEED Fund on Early Stage Investing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pravin Gandhi is currently the managing partner of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedfund.in\">SEED Fund<\/a>, an early-stage venture capital fund based in Mumbai. Google and Sierra Ventures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redherring.com\/Article.aspx?a=20890&amp;hed=Google+to+Fund+Indian+Startups\">recently invested<\/a> an undisclosed amount in Seedfund.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1972, Pravin co-founded the Hinditron group of companies (India\u2019s first IT Company) which subsequently merged with Digital Equipment Corporation in 1988 (now HP). Pravin serves on the board of several public and private corporates in India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is currently the president of TiE Mumbai and a past president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mait.com\">Manufacturers Association of Information Technology<\/a>, (an IT manufacturers association in India). He was also formerly a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasscom.org\/\">NASSCOM<\/a> executive council.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pravin holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornell.edu\">Cornell University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pravin Gandhi is currently the managing partner of SEED Fund, an early-stage venture capital fund based in Mumbai. Google and Sierra Ventures recently invested an undisclosed amount in Seedfund. In 1972, Pravin co-founded the Hinditron group of companies (India\u2019s first IT Company) which subsequently merged with Digital Equipment Corporation in 1988 (now HP). Pravin serves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cxo","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}