MobilityFund welcomes new Venture Partner, Prachi Vakharia of Amazon Transportation Innovation and Women of EVs
We are pleased to welcome our newest MobilityFund team member, Prachi J. Vakharia, to our Venture Partner program.
Prachi has extensive experience in transportation innovation and standards, and has worked on infrastructure advancing projects for autonomous vehicles as well as digital, electric, and shared mobility.
Prachi recently joined Amazon where she works with public sector agencies to design and enable the adoption of new technologies and digital infrastructure. She previously worked in clean transportation, and was brought in by AES Next, the venture arm of energy firm AES, to invest in electric mobility. Prior to that, she spent over three years at the World Bank, financing urban transport projects across Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Given her curiosity and love for science and innovation, Prachi mentors and invests in technology, transportation, and energy startups. She had three successful exits with acquisitions by Daimler AG in 2014.
Prachi chairs committees for the US National Academies of Sciences TRB and the Society of Automotive Engineers, where she contributes to academic research and standards development. She recently led the development of a new Electric Vehicles Workplace Charging certification, which was released by Forth.
To advance women in STEM+E, Prachi co-founded WOMANIUM Foundation, which trains students in areas such as computational neuroscience, telescope and satellite development, atomic clocks, and quantum computing. The foundation has given hundreds of scholarships to students from over 88 countries.
Welcome Prachi!