Pramod is a senior principal at Blumberg Capital, based in San Francisco.  Before joining Blumberg Capital, Pramod was a principal at 11.2 Capital where he focused on investing in early-stage cybersecurity, data, dev tools and AI. He led seed rounds in Coalesce, Permiso, StrikeReady, Surf Security, MightyMeld, Leen.dev and Collinear AI. Previously, Pramod was Director of Corporate Strategy/Venture Capital at VMware, advising senior leadership on product, growth and M&A along with investing in startups such as JFrog (IPO), CloudEndure (acq by AWS), Armis (acq by Insight), GuardiCore (acq by Akamai), Wavefront, VeloCloud (acq by VMware) and Affirmed Networks (acq by Microsoft). Pramod earned an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is an engineer by training with a B Tech in electrical engineering from IIT Bombay and MS in electrical engineering from Purdue University. Prior to earning his MBA, Pramod was a long-time operator building and shipping enterprise products at Sun Microsystems and two early stage startups.