Prashanth Prakash

Prashanth Prakash is an Indian entrepreneur and venture capitalist based in Bengaluru. He is the founding partner of Accel India. He received the Padma Shri in 2025 from the Government of India for his contribution to trade and industry.

Since 2004, he has been a venture capitalist for Indian startups. As a partner at Accel, Prakash has invested in Indian startups such as Flipkart, Ola, Freshworks, Book My Show, Swiggy and Bounce.

In 2008, Prakash, along with Subrata Mitra and Mahendran Balachandran founded the Indian branch of the US venture capital firm Accel.

In 2021, he was appointed as an advisor to the Chief Minister of Karnataka, B. S. Yediyurappa. Prakash is also part of the Vision Group for Startups for the Government of Karnataka. He is also part of the National Startup Advisory Council.

In August 2022, Prashanth Prakash partnered with the Indian Institute of Science to set up a geriatrics wing as part of IISc's upcoming Bagchi-Parthasarathy Hospital. He is also the founding patron of the Longevity India initiative in IISc and the co-founder of the UnboxingBLR Foundation.

Philanthropy Prashanth has helped Sikshana, an organisation working to improve the education in schools, in expanding their work from 10 to 100 schools.

In 2021, Prashanth Prakash, in collaboration with other venture capitalists, established a COVID-19 fund and created grants to encourage start-ups focused on developing products and services to tackle COVID-19 pandemic-related concerns. The investors did not take a stake in the sponsored ventures.