Anupam Rastogi

Managing Partner

2018

At Emergent, we partner early with Enterprise AI founders. We invest at pre-seed, seed and seed+ rounds across AI-powered enterprise and B2B software, including Applications and Agents, Cloud, Data, Deep-tech, Dev Tools, Infra, Security, and Vertical AI. We are builders at heart and invest with high conviction. We partner with ambitious founders early as a lead investor, and help them get to product-market fit, build out go-to-market, and navigate major company-building milestones such as downstream fundraising. Our tightly-knit community of more than 100 successful entrepreneurs and technology executives opens doors and provides game-changing insights. We focus on startups targeting the US as their primary market. We like partnering with companies that can build products in an emerging tech hub and leverage Silicon Valley to create a world-class go-to-market engine. We have backed companies originating from – or with engineering teams in – tech hubs such as India, the mid-western US, Europe and beyond. Representative investments/board roles include: - Delightree (AI OS for Franchising) - Loft / vCluster Labs (Kubernetes Virtualization) - Oloid AI (Passwordless Authentication for Frontline Workers) - Prezent AI (AI-native Business Presentations Platform) - Privado AI (AI-powered Product Privacy Management Platform) - Supportlogic (AI-powered Support Experience Platform) - T-Robotics (Physical Intelligence for Industrial Robots) - Talview (Agentic AI Proctoring and Interviewing)

Founder

2017 - 2018

Partnered with founders of high-potential businesses on scaling GTM, strategic finance, business operations. Took interim COO and CFO roles at enterprise software startups and growth-stage companies, and helped them set up or uplevel their GTM, Strategic Finance, and Business Operations capabilities

Principal | Thematic Lead - Intelligent Enterprise (AI, IoT) investments

2015 - 2017

NGP Capital is a leading global venture / growth firm with over $1 Billion under management and offices in Silicon Valley, Europe, China, and India. Originated and led several investments across geographies and stages, held board positions, helped portfolio companies drive growth and exit, and served as a member of the internal investment committee. Was fortunate to be involved with supporting the journeys of over a dozen high-quality companies, including: - Deliveroo (LSE IPO) - GetYourGuide - Lime/Limebike - Netmagic (Acquired by NTT) - Rocket Fuel (Nasdaq IPO) - Shadowfax - Techprocess (Acquired by Ingenico) - Teem (Acquired by WeWork) - Vizury (Acquired by Affle) Led the firm's thematic investments globally in the Intelligent Enterprise space (Machine Intelligence, Data, IoT, SaaS). Previously led thematic investments in the Marketplaces/Commerce/Smart Mobility space globally and built out practice. Spearheaded several firm and portfolio initiatives focused on strategic finance, growth, corporate development, BD, analytics and growth strategy

India Director

2013 - 2015

Spearheaded NGP's India presence, based out of Delhi NCR

Principal | Thematic lead - Local Marketplaces

2011 - 2015

Vice President, Associate

2009 - 2011

Product Management

2008 - 2008

New products and market entry strategy. (Meraki was then an early-stage startup backed by Sequoia and Google; Acquired by Cisco in 2012 for $1.2B)

Management Consultant

2006 - 2007

Strategy Consulting and deal/M&A advisory to Private Equity, Venture Capital and operating clients in the Telecom, Internet and Media industries. Worked on and led several due diligence and analytics projects.

Product Manager

2005 - 2006

Led product management & strategy for an innovative product that provided ‘one-number’ converged services across Wi-Fi and cellular networks. Enabled interworking with an ecosystem of mobile apps including LBS, IPTV & Push-to-Talk, as well as OSS/BSS systems. Evangelized product with senior decision makers at mobile/cable/telecom operators and large enterprises in Asia, Europe & US, leading to product trials and deployments

Systems Architect/Program Manager

2002 - 2005

Worked on what would now be called "Enterprise Transformation" and "Big Data" initiatives. Managed creation of Data Analytics & Business Intelligence systems for new nationwide service. Led integration with Enterprise Data Warehouse and big data feeds from multiple partner companies IT strategy/architecture in the eServices division responsible for new digital products at Verizon. Led and coordinated the architecture, design and implementation of several new products and projects, including a real-time messaging/collaboration system for large Enterprise customers (well before Slack), an enterprise-grade interactive voice response system (well before Alexa), an innovative digital assistant, a wide-area WiFi roll-out, and enterprise-wide SSO (well before Okta)

Researcher (Intern)

2001 - 2001

Conducted research on mobile data consumption patterns by early mobile/PDA data users. Analyzed massive data sets and designed algorithms for early mobile data network packet scheduling. "Performance of a wireless data network with mixed interactive user workloads" Published at International Conference on Communications 2002

Researcher (Intern)

2000 - 2000

Designed low power algorithms for ad-hoc sensor networks using protocols such as Bluetooth. Published multiple research papers and patents. "MAC scheduling policies with reduced power consumption and bounded packet delays for centrally controlled TDD wireless networks" Published at International Conference on Communications 2001