Paresh Ghelani is an avid entrepreneur and philanthropist who focuses on solving problems through innovation and entrepreneurship. He is currently active in building and investing in Moon Express, Viome Inc, DTV Motor Corporation, Ferrate Treatment Technologies, Casepoint, Radimmune Therapeutics. Mr. Ghelani believes in investing and mentoring companies and entrepreneurs who are taking moon shots and changing the world by building breakthrough technologies. One of his passion project as a philanthropist is XPRIZE Foundation which leads the world in solving grand challenges through incentive prizes. Mr. Ghelani along with Ratan Tata and Naveen Jain successfully brought XPRIZE to India, targeting the country’s most pressing challenges including health, sanitation, women’s safety, access to clean water, waste management, among others.

Embodying his personal motto “work hard in silence and let your success be the noise”, Mr. Ghelani successfully founded and built 2020 Company LLC from the ground up, growing it from 1 to 1000+ employees, and providing the US government with advanced technologies across multiple sectors including education, defense, and healthcare. The company was acquired for $130M+ by a private equity firm. Prior to that, he founded and successfully built two other technology companies from zero to successful exit.

Through his body of work and achievements Mr. Ghelani sets an aspirational example as an entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is also is an inspiration to young entrepreneurs around the world who are on a mission to make a positive impact on humanity.

Over the decades, Mr Ghelani has cultivated deep relationships, creating the most valuable governmental, business and direct influencer network in India.  This is mission critical for go-to-market execution across the fund’s portfolio, and to enable aggressive growth directly in our regions of focus.