Gopi Prashanth

Dream, Build, Scale, Repeat

📍 Redmond, Washington, United States🔄 Updated July 2026💼 5 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2019
VC🌍 United States
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Seed Investor
Jun 2019
ZugZwang Academy is Indias first intellectual mind development program for children. ZugZwang was founded in 2012. In the last 5 years, we have personally trained, coached & mentored over 1500 students across the world. ZugZwang offers multiple programs for children of all ages - Chess, Wonder Math, Programming for Kids, Rubiks Cubing, Scratch Coding, Robotics, Wonder Words and Concepts & Skills (an academic coaching program). The ZugZwang team consists top chess coaches and seasoned mentors who love working with children, contributing to their intellectual development.
Seed Investor
Feb 2017
Rippling is a workforce management system that eliminates the friction from running a business. Today, most companies struggle with everything from routine tasks, like running payroll, to cross-functional planning, like aligning on headcount. That’s because all their data related to people, processes, and systems is scattered in a hundred places. Rippling has every application you need to run your business—from applicant tracking and payroll to IT and expenses—in one place. But unlike other systems, Rippling sits on top of a unified platform. Data flows dynamically between Rippling’s applications, giving every team a shared source of truth, the power to automate processes, and access to the insights they need. This allows your business to execute better, faster. Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.2B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock. Get help: rippling.com/contact Licensing details: https://app.rippling.com/licensing
Seed Investor
Jan 2017
Novel Effect is an award-winning mobile app that follows along during story time with interactive music, sound effects, and character voices creating magical moments when you read aloud with your child. Were on a mission to empower educators, parents, and kids to connect and engage with each other and books. Our unique form of storytelling brings the story to life, engaging and capturing the imaginations of children and their grown-ups. We believe every child is full of potential and that more well-read children in the world will create a better future for us all!
Advisor and Investor
Jan 2017
WELCOME TO WEB 3.0 DEFI FOR MUSIC ARTISTS, SPORTS TEAMS AND CONTENT CREATORS CEEK directly connects music artists and other premium content creators directly to their fans through VR Concerts, NFTs and unique experiences in virtual worlds. With CEEK’s virtual reality platform you can join friends in the ultimate immersive virtual reality Metaverse. You can step into a movie, feel the rush of your favorite team running by you, spend time up-close and personal with your favorite bands, and enjoy 3D movies, live concerts, festivals, sports, and more.
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Advisor and Investor
Nov 2015
We are a global employee engagement platform with features like rewards, recognition, community building, and FlexBen on a unified platform. We aim to provide end-to-end solutions to facilitate employee engagement through exclusive privileges and rewards by our 10,000+ brand partners. Established in 2016, AdvantageClub.ai is a brainchild of UCLA postgraduates Sourabh Deorah and Smiti Bhatt Deorah, who identified employee benefits as a space to create disruption using data mining and analytics. Since then, we have been redefining employee benefits beyond the traditional provident fund and corporate discount policies. Currently headquartered in Delaware, we hold 5 million+ users with 1,000+ impressive client portfolios featuring BCG, Concentrix, Teleperformance, Hexaware, Target and many more, with a presence in 100+ countries. We take pride in providing a scalable, customisable, cost-effective program to take employee engagement to the next level. Our unified platform brings a wide variety of recognition programs, including milestone/anniversary/years-of-service awards, real-time spot bonuses, automated incentives, peer-to-peer appreciation, onboarding programs, wellness programs, quarterly & annual performance awards, gift card programs, exclusive offers across 10,000+ global brands, etc. With its sole mission to help organisations keep their employees engaged and driven, our Advantage Club App is supported by a well-thought employee engagement solution that offers the best-in-class experience to its users. The platform is set to revolutionise the industry by directly impacting employee recruitment and retention through an exhaustive employee engagement tool.
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2022
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Jan 2022
At Future Forward we redefine the college admissions journey for STEM majors. Our philosophy—don’t chase butterflies; grow a garden, and they will come. We prepare students to cultivate their unique strengths and build a foundation that attracts opportunities naturally. Through a combination of personalized guidance and modern AI tools, we help students excel academically, deepen extracurricular involvement, win awards, and craft compelling narratives. Our approach ensures our students college applications to STEM majors reflect their authentic stories and aspirations. Future Forward isnt just about getting into college—it’s about preparing for a lifetime of success. Let us help you grow your garden with purpose. 🌱
early stageHigher Education
2021
FIT HUB
Founder, Engineer & Product
Dec 2021
Limited Partner
Jul 2021
Fuse Venture Partners invests into Series A, B and C stage technology enabled companies in Europe. We typically look for businesses that generate revenues of millions (or more), have close proximity to the end customer (i.e. marketplaces, e-commerce, logistics), demonstrate a clear competitive advantage, have barriers to entry and the potential to scale organically and / or inorganically. We invest and become your partner and advisor to achieve step-change growth. Please send all requests to ventures@fuse.partners
Limited Partner
May 2021
AI-first, seed-first fund in digital health, automation (cars, drones, robots) & enterprise
2020
Founder
Oct 2020
Spyn Inc is a seed stage technology startup working on computer vision and artificial intelligence based platform for movement experts.
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