Bio

Prashant Kumar Bothra is a principal at Woven Capital focusing on mobility, artificial intelligence, robotics, fintech, and cyber security investments. Prior to Woven Capital, Prashant held executive positions at leading financial institutions across the globe, where his responsibilities included researching, analyzing, identifying, structuring, and executing investment transactions for public and private companies in the Consumer Retail and Technology sectors. Most recently, Prashant was the founder of Torii Ventures, an investment management consulting firm based in Dubai. He has also served as Vice President, Technology Venture Capital Investments, at Gulf Islamic Investments, with a focus on enterprise technology, as well as Vice President at Omnia Ventures, focused on Private Equity investments in MENA. Previously, Prashant was one of the founding members of the Technology Strategy Group, Equity Research Division, at Credit Suisse. He worked closely with technology sector research teams across the US, Europe and Asia, and led the design and successful implementation of one of the largest and most detailed tech industry forecast models, which includes the Credit Suisse Technology Index. He began his career at Goldman Sachs in the Investment Banking Division as a data strategy analyst in the Consumer Retail and Healthcare groups. He holds an MBA with a specialization in Finance from the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad and the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, and a BA in Economics from New York University.