Sandesh Patnam is the Managing Partner at Premji Invest, running both the private and listed equities investing practice in the US and tech investing globally. He has led investments in Anaplan (PLAN), Zuora (ZUO), Coupa (COUP), Looker (Acq. by Google), Apttus (Acq. by Thoma Bravo), ServiceMax (Acq. by GE), Navan (NAVN), Outreach, Icertis, Heyday, Signifyd, and Cohesity, among others. ‍Previously, he was a Senior Equity Analyst and Investment Officer at the Seligman Technology Group at Ameriprise, where he helped manage more than $15B in both long only and long/short investment vehicles while leading their software and IT infrastructure equity portfolios. Prior, he was a General Partner at Bay Partners and led the IT Infrastructure and SaaS practices. ‍Before that, he was with TeleSoft Partners where he led the systems and components investment practices. He’s also held roles at Malleable Technologies, Silicon Graphics, Integrated Device Technologies, and Cirrus Logic.