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Sameer Verma
Founding Investor Led Seed and Series A investment at Postman
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Sameer is a Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners where he opened leads their Bangalore office. At Nexus he has led investments in Postman Unacademy Hasura.io Infra.market Zolo Ultrahuman Zomato via RoadRunnr Quandl NASDAQ Goodera MayaData Joveo Jumbotail MyUpchar Goals101 Indix Avalara. Prior to Nexus Sameer was the founding member at Reliance Capital s early stage venture capital fund Reliance Ventures where he led investments in PayTM stake acquired by Chinese internet giant HealthSpring Columbia Pacific Tessolve Semiconductor Hero Electronix Dhama Innovations buy-back Greendust Stoke Mavenir Systems EBand Communications CarrierCom. Sameer founded Breakthrough Capital a public market equity-focused investment entity managing his personal capital. Breakthrough s public market strategy is focused on special-situations value-investing. His operational expertise is product management business development sales acceleration recruiting follow-on fundraising and scaling. He is on the advisory board of The Digital Fifth an Advisor to AngelList India Microsoft Ventures India and voted as a 40 under 40 Alternative Investment Professionals in India by IAAIF. He is also a Global Panel Member at MIT Technology Review and a Kautilya Fellow Class of 2020. Sameer has served in operating roles at UTStarcom Inc Ericsson and American Wireless BroadBand as a Product Manager Solutions Architect and Network Architect. A life-long learner Sameer earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering as an International Founders Scholar from the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago. While at IllinoisTech he also interned at Hughes Software Systems UTStarcom Spectranet and did undergraduate research work for National Science Foundation Ed-Kaplan Foundation Molex and IIT Research Institute IITRI.
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