NK

Naresh Kumar

India Ecosystem @Aptos | 3x Founder | Venture Capital | Brand, Marketing & Growth | Bullish on India 🇮🇳

Bengaluru, Karnataka

VC
Investor

Invests in

Stages:

Series A
Seed

Locations:

India

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Social Media Marketing
Marketing Strategy
Content Strategy
Digital Marketing
Marketing
Strategic Marketing
Social Media
Digital Strategy
Online Marketing
Online Advertising
Social Media Optimization (SMO)
Market Research
Go-to-market Strategy
Product Marketing
Employer Branding
Brand Awareness
Hootsuite
Management
Talent Branding
Communication

Education

Work Experience

Aptos Foundation

2023

  • India Lead

    2023

GravityX Capital

2021 - 2023

  • General Partner

    2021 - 2023

    GravityX Capital is a regulated early-stage crypto fund. We invest in infrastructure layers for DeFi, DAOs, Metaverse, and NFTs. Top investments include: - Supra Oracles - StackOS - Neptune Mutual - Humanode - BitsCrunch - Shade Protocol

Graviton Web3 Accelerator

2022 - 2023

  • Co-Founder & CMO

    2022 - 2023

    We're building the most comprehensive enabling web3 ecosystem for Indian builders. If you're building for web3 in India, dms open.

ClayStack

2020 - 2022

  • Head of Marketing

    2020 - 2022

    ClayStack is a decentralized cross-chain liquid staking protocol backed by leading VC funds and DeFi founders like CoinFund, ParaFi, Coinbase Ventures, Larry Cermak, Meltem Demirors, Robert Leshner, Kevin Rose, etc. ClayStack aids in capital efficiency for DeFi users by unlocking the liquidity of staked assets in PoS networks. Our mission is to disrupt the staking industry and support the adoption, growth, and long-term success of the Blockchain and Web3 ecosystem.

Zensciences

2018 - 2020

  • Digital Lead (Walmart Global Tech India)

    2018 - 2020

    Zensciences is a boutique consulting firm in Bangalore. In this role, I worked as an embedded resource at Walmart Global Tech India and led their entire digital and brand marketing efforts. Growing their community from 25K to 0.5M users.

Marvelens Studios Pvt. Ltd

2016 - 2018

  • Co-Founder & COO

    2016 - 2018

    Responsibilities - Closely work with brand managers/CMOs for startups and global businesses. - Lead content writers, video editors, and production crew to produce high-quality video content. - Strategically support clients in building a video pipeline for social media. - Manage an entertainment website www.feedagreed.com. Key achievements - Created dynamic video content for startups like Yourstory and large global firms like Cisco and Infosys. - Drove revenue of over 1.5cr/yr.

Infosys

2014 - 2016

  • Software Engineer

    2014 - 2016

    Responsibilities - Build workflow tools using Java and RDBMS adopting the agile methodology.  - Closely work with the client and on-site POC to gather requirements. Key achievements - Awarded for automating an existing workflow process to bring down job-run time by 40%.Â