I am an AI‑focused venture investor based in San Francisco. I hold an MBA from Harvard Business School and a dual BTech‑MTech from IIT Kharagpur. My career spans consulting at McKinsey, early‑stage VC at Sequoia Capital, public‑markets research at Davis Advisors, and currently I serve as Vice President at Nexus Venture Partners, leading full‑stack AI and Frontier‑Tech investments.
- Current role: Vice President, Nexus Venture Partners (Jul 2024 – Present) – Nexus manages $3.2 bn across 8 funds.
- Prior VC experience: Founding investor in Pramaana Labs (Sep 2025) and TriFetch (Jul 2025); Growth Investment Team at Sequoia Capital (Apr 2021 – Aug 2022); Analyst at Sequoia (Apr 2019 – Mar 2021).
- Public‑markets stint: Davis Advisors (Jun 2023 – Aug 2023) – a long‑only global fund managing > $20 bn AUM; authored theses on Constellation Software (TSE: CSU), AGCO (NYSE: AGCO), Astra International (ASII.JK).
- Consulting: McKinsey & Company (Aug 2017 – Mar 2019) as Management Consultant / Business Analyst.
- Leadership at IIT Kharagpur: Student Placement Coordinator (Apr 2015 – Mar 2016) – placed 1000+ students in 10 days, scheduled 375+ companies, achieved a 31 % offer increase within 3 days.
- Other experience: Summer Management Trainee at ITC Limited (May‑Jul 2015) – wrote a Python script that automated short‑circuit calculations, cutting manual effort by an estimated 80 %; Internship at Hewlett‑Packard (May‑Jun 2014) – received “Best Trainee” award.
- Education: Harvard Business School – Master of Business Administration (MBA); IIT Kharagpur – Dual Degree, BTech in Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering and MTech in Visual Information Processing & Embedded Systems (AI/ML).
- Research: AI/ML Research Assistant at Nanyang Technological University (May‑Jul 2016).
- Portfolio oversight: 6 companies (Trifetch, Pramaana Labs, Autonomous Data Factory, Voice AI Foundational Model, AI Memory Lab, AI for Consumer Law).