I am Sanjay Swamy, serial entrepreneur & VC with a whacky sense of humour! AMA!

I am Sanjay Swamy, managing partner at Prime Venture Partners, a seed-stage venture fund based in Bangalore, India. I have trodden the tough and demanding path of an entrepreneur all through my career. A stint at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto provided a moment of epiphany and it’s fair to say that things have never been the same since. Bitten by the desire to create, I embarked on a journey to build awesome teams and products that took me through startups like Ketera, Portal Software, mChek and Zipdial (now acquired by Twitter) – which I co-founded in 2010.

I am an active member of the startup community, a Rotarian and a charter member of TiE. I have also played a prominent role on the UIDAI project under the leadership of Mr. Nandan Nilekani.

I’m happy to answer any questions you have, specifically on the following topics:

• Patent: Important or waste of time?
• Start-ups selling to the government: a must or nice to have?
• Do universities play any role in entrepreneurship?
• Fun in startups: the inexpensive way

Happy to answer any questions you might have on the above topics or otherwise. I will be more than interested in taking any other queries on fin-tech/payments startups and ideas!

Fire Away!

Note from Daniel, TIA’s community manager:
The host may choose at his preference to not answer particular questions. The AMA is moderated by the community managers, so let’s keep the questions friendly. 🙂

Read more about Prime Venture Partners here