About

Gaurav is a Partner at F-Prime Capital where he focuses on enterprise technology investing.  He has led or participated in investments in Threat Stack (acquired by F5 Networks), RiskRecon (acquired by Mastercard), Protenus, OTA Insight, Risklens, Funnel, Warmly, Canary Technologies, Deal Engine and Notable Health.  Prior to F-Prime, Gaurav was a Principal at F-Prime’s sister fund, Eight Roads Ventures Europe, based in London, where he invested in European software and online services businesses and served on the boards of Appsflyer and Neo4j (Neo Technology).  Previously, Gaurav was at EMC where he drove new growth initiatives and product portfolio management for EMC’s largest business unit, Symmetrix.  Gaurav was a computer scientist by training and spent the early parts of his career advising software companies at Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank.

Gaurav attended MIT for his bachelors and masters degrees in computer science, as well as his MBA.

  • AppsFlyer is a mobile advertising measurement platform that allows app marketers to measure their user acquisition campaigns in real-time. Learn more at www.appsflyer.com.


    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      Herzliya, Israel

    • Team

  • Canary Technologies is modernizing the hotel tech stack, with the first mobile web end-to-end Guest Management System, digitizing everything from post-booking through checkout. Trusted by thousands of hotels in more than 65 countries, including Four Seasons, Choice Hotels, Standard Hotels and Ace Hotel Group, Canary’s solutions help hotels eliminate paper processes, boost revenue with upsells, raise staff efficiency, ensure PCI compliance, improve the guest experience, and reduce chargebacks and payment fraud. Learn more at canarytechnologies.com.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      San Francisco, CA

    • Year Invested

      2020

    • Team

  • Castle is the security industry’s first zero-configuration solution for account takeover (ATO) protection. Learn more at www.castle.io.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      San Francisco, CA

    • Year Invested

      2016

    • Team

  • ConnexPay is revolutionizing the payment distribution process by offering a combined merchant acquiring and virtual card issuing solution for mid-sized companies. The company’s technology simplifies an antiquated workflow, eliminates the need for pre-funded accounts, reduces supplier risk and the cost of accepting card payments while safeguarding consumer spend. Backed by  F-Prime Capital and BIP Capital, ConnexPay is becoming the industry leader in payments for industries historically viewed as high risk to payment providers.  Learn more at www.connexpay.com.

    • Category

      • FinTech
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      Atlanta, GA

    • Year Invested

      2020

    • Team

  • Deal Engine is a Miami-based travel software company, with a mission to bring digital transformation to the travel industry. Utilizing proprietary AI and APIs, Deal Engine brings automation to travel, eliminating manual processes, and making sure people spend their time where they generate more value. Learn more at deal-engine.com.

  • Funnel’s product is a Data Core used by 800 forward-thinking organizations across a wide set of industry verticals to automatically import marketing data and make it Business-Ready. The Swedish Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company was founded by Fredrik Skantze and Per Made in 2014. Funnel has 140 employees and offices in Stockholm and Boston. Learn more at funnel.io.

  • Hone is a Live Learning Platform for organizations to teach transformational leadership, management, and people skills at scale. The company empowers HR and Learning & Development teams to tackle people development in a modern way, with easy deployment of small-group, live cohort learning at scale, and data and tools to measure its impact. Through a blend of live online cohort-based programs, world-class instructors, and a powerful behavior change platform, Hone cultivates soft skills with hard data, leading to lasting behavior change in 90% of learners who go through our programs. Hone has trained thousands of learners in 58+ countries, and serves a rapidly expanding list of clients including GoFundMe, ServiceNow, Rover, Grove Collaborative and more. For more information, visit www.honehq.com.

  • Lighthouse (formerly OTA Insight) is the leading commercial platform for the travel & hospitality industry. We transform complexity into confidence by providing actionable market insights, business intelligence, and pricing tools that maximize revenue growth. We continually innovate to deliver the best platform for hospitality professionals to price more effectively, measure performance more efficiently, and understand the market in new ways. Trusted by over 65,000 hotels in 185 countries, Lighthouse is the only solution that provides real-time hotel and short-term rental data in a single platform. We strive to deliver the best possible experience with unmatched customer service. We consider our clients as true partners—their success is our success. Learn more at mylighthouse.com.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      London, England, UK

    • Year Invested

      2017

    • Team

  • Logixboard is the digital partner for freight forwarders to succeed in today’s highly competitive market. Our web-based platform empowers freight forwarders to do their work more efficiently, increasing customer satisfaction, and unlock the power of their data. Logixboard is a recent graduate of Techstars and is based in Seattle with offices in Bogota, Colombia.  For more information, visit www.logixboard.com.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      Seattle, WA

    • Year Invested

      2019

    • Team

  • Neo4j is the leading graph database platform that drives innovation and competitive advantage at Airbus, Comcast, eBay, NASA, UBS, Walmart and more. Thousands of community deployments and more than 300 customers harness connected data with Neo4j to reveal how people, processes, locations and systems are interrelated. Using this relationships-first approach, applications built using Neo4j tackle connected data challenges including artificial intelligence, fraud detection, real-time recommendations and master data. Find out more at neo4j.com.


    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      San Mateo, CA and Malmö, Sweden

    • Team

  • Notable is an AI powered healthcare company that puts appointments on autopilot. By analyzing historical patterns of practice, Notable proactively automates away hundreds of manual repetitive tasks like adding diagnoses, orders, templates, billing codes, and more. Learn more at www.notablehealth.com.

  • Odaseva partners with the largest and most sophisticated organizations in the world to accelerate their trust in business-critical cloud applications. Fortune Global 500 industry leaders use Odaseva technology to back up and restore data, ensure data privacy and regulatory compliance, and use data to drive operational agility. Engineered for Salesforce by Salesforce experts and endorsed by Salesforce Ventures, Odaseva is trusted by 30+ million users and has received 100% five-star reviews over eight years on the Salesforce AppExchange.  Learn more at www.odaseva.com.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      Paris, France and San Francisco, CA

    • Year Invested

      2020

    • Team

  • The Protenus healthcare compliance analytics platform uses artificial intelligence to help partner hospitals make decisions about how to better protect their data, their patients, and their institutions. Learn more at www.protenus.com.

  • RiskLens is the leading provider of quantitative cyber risk management software. Its platform is recognized as a mission-critical business application for cybersecurity and risk teams across the Fortune 1,000. RiskLens empowers large enterprises and government organizations to manage cyber risk from the business perspective by quantifying that risk in monetary terms. Clients depend on RiskLens solutions to better understand and communicate their cyber risk exposure in financial terms, prioritize their risk mitigations, measure the ROI of their security investments, and meet regulatory demands calling for the quantification of cyber risk. RiskLens is the only cyber risk quantification software purpose-built on FAIR, the standard quantification model for information security and operational risk. Learn more at www.risklens.com.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Acquired
    • Location

      Reston, VA

    • Year Invested

      2019

    • Team

  • RiskRecon is the only continuous vendor monitoring solution that delivers risk-prioritized action plans custom-tuned to match your risk priorities, providing the world’s easiest path to understanding and acting on third-party cyber risk. Partner with RiskRecon to build your scalable, third-party risk management program to realize dramatically better risk outcomes. RiskRecon was acquired by Mastercard in 2019.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Acquired
    • Location

      Salt Lake City, UT

    • Year Invested

      2017

    • Team

  • Threat Stack enables growth-driven companies to scale securely and meet complex cloud security needs by identifying and verifying insider threats, external attacks, and data loss in real time. With a comprehensive approach to intrusion detection, Threat Stack empowers security and operations to better manage risk and compliance across their entire infrastructure, including cloud, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and containerized environments. Threat Stack was acquired by F5 Networks in 2021.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Acquired
    • Location

      Boston, MA

    • Year Invested

      2017

    • Team

  • Warmly is the first AI-fueled pipeline acceleration platform that harnesses the power of existing sales enablement and intent tools to automatically identify high propensity website visitors and alert them to sales for real-time engagement. It’s the first such solution purpose built to meet the business and budget needs of SMBs. Learn more at www.warmly.ai.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      San Francisco, CA

    • Year Invested

      2020

    • Team