Ex-Premji Invest Partner Atul Gupta Launches Trident Growth Partners

Atul Gupta, a former partner of Premji Invest, has established Trident Growth Partners, a venture capital firm focused on investing in startups in several industries including consumer, financial services, enterprise software, technology, etc.

Gupta co-founded the venture capital business alongside Rajesh Ramaiah, a former executive of Premji Invest, and Pravan Malhotra, a veteran of Malacca Ventures.

Throughout his term, he collaborated with various startups including Policybazaar, lenskart, Amagi, myntra, Flipkart, FirstCry, GlobalBees, purplle, MedPlus, KreditBee, and Mintifi, among others.

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Gupta is among the many fund managers and partners who have departed from VC companies in the past year to establish their own ventures.

In April, Piyush Gupta resigned from Peak XV in order to establish a fund that focuses on secondary investments. In the same month, Lightspeed experienced the departure of venture partners Vaibhav Agrawal and Abhishek Nag.

Atul Gupta, said: “I was intrigued by the opportunity to build a platform dedicated to growing an endowment that supported the Azim Premji Foundation’s impactful work in education and healthcare across India. A pivotal meeting with Mr. Azim Premji solidified my decision to join Premji Invest and relocate from the US to India within the next few months,"

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