Abhishek Shukla

Abhishek Shukla is a seasoned investor and currently heads Prosperity7 Americas, a $5B Fund backed by Saudi Aramco, where he oversees all investments activities and the team. A prolific investor in enterprise and deep-tech, his areas of focus include AI Infra, Silicon, Data infrastructure, cybersecurity, edge-to-cloud computing, and frontier technologies such as quantum computing.
Prior to joining Prosperity7, Abhishek served as Senior Managing Director and head of Hewlett Packard Pathfinder, the venture arm of HPE. Before that, he was Managing Director and Co-Head of Software Investments at GE Ventures. Earlier in his career, he was part of Cisco’s Corporate Development and Investments team, leading investments and M&A activities across cybersecurity and cloud services portfolios. Abhishek’s foundational experience also includes leadership roles in venture investing, M&A, strategy, product management and sales across Agilent Technologies, Sony, and SAP.
Throughout his career, Abhishek has invested and/pr served on numerous boards, including companies such as Together AI, Cohere, Groq, Cartesia, Nile, Snorkel AI, Uniphore, Rescale, Arrcus, Cequence Security, BigID, DataRobot, Dragos, and Unqork, among others.
Abhishek holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications from the Delhi College of Engineering, India.
Outside of work, Abhishek is an adventure sports enthusiast and a certified scuba diver with a passion for diving with sharks.