Pradeep Tagare

Pradeep is Interim President and Head of Investments at National Grid Partners. He has led investments in Autogrid (acquired by Siemens), 1touch (acquired by Everpure), Edcast (acquired by Cornerstone), Incorta, TS Conductor and Viridi Parente. In addition, Pradeep leads fund investments and is on the LPAC of IQ Capital (UK) and Jerusalem Venture Partners (Israel). Before joining National Grid Partners, Pradeep spent 13 years at Intel Capital in both Silicon Valley and India. During his time there, he led 16 investments that resulted in two IPOs and eight M&A exits, with three unicorns in the portfolio. Prior to Intel Capital, Pradeep spent 12 years in technology/product marketing roles at Silicon Valley startups including Inference, BroadVision and Healtheon and as an entrepreneur, co-founding Yopa, a mobile middleware software company. Pradeep has an M.S.E.E. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a BE (EE) from the University of Bombay, and is a Kauffman Fellow.