Pratima Aiyagari

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Biography

Ms. Pratima Aiyagari serves as Partner and Venture Partner at Nauta Capital. She served as Strategic Advisor, in Europe at Paladin Capital Group. She is a Partner at Nauta Capital and is based in London. She served as Manager at Cisco Investments. She joined Cisco Corporate Development in 2011 and was responsible for investments and acquisitions across all Cisco verticals within the EMEA region with a specific focus on Western and Northern Europe. In this role, she also served as Cisco's board observer on several portfolio companies. Before her current role, she has over a decade of experience in multiple roles as a Cisco engineer in the US (in the areas of network management, access routing, and advanced services), sell-side equity research in Europe covering the TMT sector (at Société Générale) and corporate business development in a financial risk management start-up in London (at PensionsFirst). She received her MBA from INSEAD in France and an MS in Computer Science from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the US. She is a co-author of a US patent in the area of network device clusters and high availability.