Sanjay Swamy (@theswamy) is Co-founder and Managing Partner at Prime Venture Partners (previously AngelPrime), a seed-stage VC firm based out of Bangalore.
Sanjay has played a dual-role of investor and co-founder in Prime’s first two companies, ZipDial, a mobile marketing platform recently acquired by Twitter, as well as at Ezetap, a Smart-Mobile POS company. Sanjay also is on the board of happay, KredX, NiYO, myGate and other exciting companies. He is also actively involved in various policy-shaping initiatives that are redefining banking and payments in India including being a volunteer with iSPIRT and is a champion of IndiaStack.
Prior to Prime, Sanjay played a role in the Aadhaar (Unique ID project) where he worked on the authentication platform and its relationship to Payments, Banking, Insurance & Telecommunication services. Earlier he was the CEO of Mobile Payments startup mChek, a large-scale mobile payments provider that had massive distribution to more than 300M users across the Airtel and DoCoMo networks.