An established team with a proven track record

Ramneek is the Founder and Managing Partner of Pruven Capital, an independent, returns driven venture firm. He brings a unique experience base from his past as a traditional venture investor, an early startup employee and a corporate venture investor to the mission of creating an investment platform - designed to help founders’ dramatically accelerate their go to market, by leveraging the unprecedented scale of our LPs.

Prior to founding Pruven, Ramneek was the Co-founder and co-lead of the venture investing platform at Citi, which he helped build into a leading investing program that delivered both strategic and financial returns for Citi. At Citi Ventures, he led all aspects of the platform's buildout including definition of the focus areas, hiring & development of the team, global expansion into Asia as well as commercialization of portfolio companies with Citi. He led investments in over 25 companies across fintech, ecommerce, payments, digital customer experience, digital servicing and enterprise IT that represent over $75B in market cap. Some of his notable investments included Square (NYSE: SQ), Jet.com (Acq by Walmart for $3.3B), DocuSign (NASDAQ: DOCU), Honey (Acq by Paypal for $4B), Grab (NASDAQ: GRAB), Datarobot, Feedzai, Zum, Homelight & Udaan.

Prior to Citi Ventures, Ramneek led business development at Zappedy (Acq by Groupon), was a Partner at Battery Ventures where he led the build out of their investment practice in India and held various product development roles at PMC Sierra and TiVo.

He is also an angel investor and has had the opportunity to partner with founders through early investments in companies like Robinhood (NASDAQ: Hood), CheckR, Ipsy, Vicarious (Acq by Alphabet), Maxxa and Gridspace.

Ramneek received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, where he graduated at the top of his class and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.

Travis is a Partner at Pruven Capital. Before joining Pruven, he was a Director at Citi Ventures, where he led over fifteen investments across fintech, proptech, ecommerce, and enterprise IT. Among his notable investments were Socure, HighRadius, Betterment, SmartAsset and Clarity Money.

Earlier in his career, Travis was a founding member of FinTech Collective, a venture capital fund focused on emerging technologies in financial services. There, he spearheaded over twenty early-stage investments, including Moneylion, Plaid/Quovo, Octane Lending, and NextCapital. Before transitioning to venture capital, Travis was a banker at Nomura and HSBC, and a strategy consultant at Accenture.

Travis holds an MBA from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas and a BS in Finance and International Business from Georgetown University.

Sudip is a partner at Pruven Capital where he leads investments in companies that are transforming the enterprise, cloud and infrastructure markets. He especially enjoys working with technical founders – sharing his own experiences as a founder and helping them build successful teams and businesses.

Before venturing into early-stage investing, Sudip was an entrepreneur and an engineer. He started his first company when he was at Georgia Tech, and his second while in business school. This experience of founding enterprise businesses led Sudip to the venture side and he has been investing in Enterprise IT and open source software companies ever since.

Sudip's past investments include Temporal, Exabeam, Heptio, Menlo Security, Spotnana, Penpot and NocoDB. He had also been a board observer at Databricks, Digital Ocean, Actifio, Mesosphere and Samsara.

Sudip received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech, an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur.

Jared is an investor at Pruven Capital. Prior to Pruven, he was at K1 Investment Management ($15B AUM firm focused on B2B software investments) for over 6 years. During his time at K1, Jared led new investments for the firm and participated in over two dozen closed enterprise software transactions across spaces including fintech, construction/field service, GenAI, and enterprise IT. Some of Jared’s notable previous board responsibilities include TokenEx, GoCanvas, and Raffle. Outside of the venture space he has had experience in private equity, start-up consulting, and developing businesses for the LATAM market.  

Jared graduated magna cum laude from the University of Southern California where he was a Discovery Scholar in Economics. In his spare time, Jared enjoys traveling with his wife and their dachshund, Frank.

Zsombor is a CFO at Pruven Capital. Prior to Pruven, he was an investor at Orion Resource Partners ($8B AUM firm focused on natural resource investments) for almost 6 years focusing on project finance and control equity positions. Before business school he worked at PwC and EY both in audit and transaction services in the SF Bay Area. He is a CPA (inactive).

Zsombor graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara and got his MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. In his spare time, Zsombor enjoys family time, reading value investors' shareholder letters and working out.