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Anupam Rastogi

Managing Partner

Anupam is a builder at heart, engineer by training, and a seasoned venture investor by vocation. He has led or played a substantive role in over 20 successful venture investments globally, ranging from early to expansion stage, leading to several IPO and M&A outcomes.

Anupam particularly enjoys working with founders on iterating to product-market fit and building out go-to-market capabilities. He is passionate about the long term positive impact that technology can drive.

Over the last several years, Anupam has been focused on building and scaling Emergent Ventures as the pre-eminent Enterprise AI venture firm partnering early with founders in their 0 to 1 journey. Anupam has been investing in the Enterprise AI space for over a decade, and has partnered with several founding teams pushing the envelope across modern AI, Cloud Infrastructure, Data, Security, Vertical SaaS, and Developer Tools.

Prior to Emergent, Anupam founded NX Partners to help high-potential SaaS companies accelerate their go-to-market, growth rates and outcomes, and worked closely with half a dozen startups across the enterprise landscape. Previously, Anupam held investing roles of increasing responsibility at NGP Capital, a global venture firm with $1.6B+ AUM. At NGP Capital, Anupam led the Intelligent Enterprise investing team, identifying and investing in companies at the intersection of data, IoT and machine intelligence. Earlier, he built the firm’s marketplaces investing practice globally across Asia, Europe and North America, and helped drive the firm’s smart mobility and logistics investment practice. Investments that Anupam originated, led, managed and/or supported include Deliveroo (IPO), Rocket Fuel (IPO), GetYourGuide, Shadowfax, Lime, NetMagic (acquired by NTT), Teem (acquired by WeWork), and Vizury (acquired by Affle).

Prior to his investing career, Anupam spent several years in the mobile, enterprise and data analytics spaces, bringing to market four new products, setting up a big data analytics stack in a Fortune 100 environment, and authoring five international patents and publications. Anupam holds Computer Science degrees from IIT Delhi and UT Austin, an MBA from The Wharton School, and studied Technology Commercialization at MIT.

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