Kunal Mehta
Venture Capital | Author Disruptors & Finding Genius
New York, New York
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Min Investment:
$2,000,000.00Max Investment:
$10,000,000.00Target Investment:
$5,000,000.00
Skills
Education
- NS
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Work Experience
2022
Managing Director
2022
2018 - 2022
Principal
2018 - 2022
Welltok (Board Observer), Aver (Board Member), Artemis Health (Board Observer), Supported: Freightwaves, Sharecare, Robin Games, Drone Base, Via, Zendrive, Cogito, Inrupt, DRL, Maven Machines,
2016 - 2018
Venture Associate
2016 - 2018
Supported the venture fund and worked closely with faculty, graduate students, Ph.Ds, and undergraduates to commercialize research into ventures. The Innovation Venture Fund and NYUEI has backed companies including ClarifAI, Opentrons, Vidcode, Brooklinen, StateSpace Labs and more.
2015 - 2016
Founder
2015 - 2016
Launched a content aggregation application focused on sharing and discovery of long-form content. The goal was to provide consumers with one subscription to multiple publications. We raised capital from premier venture funds and scaled our user base but ultimately decided to sunset the application.
2013 - 2015
Program Finance
2013 - 2015
Worked on the grant-making team at charity: water and supported our CFO and finance team with analysis on project efficiency and capital deployment.
2011 - 2013
Sales and Trading
2011 - 2013
Traded equity derivatives in Nomura’s $10 billion equities business
2007 - 2011
J.P. Morgan
2007 - 2011
Recipient of a full scholarship through the J.P. Morgan Smart Start Scholarship program. The scholarship requires 15 recipients from the United States to work four annual rotations within the firm – full-time in the summer and part-time (20 hours per week) during spring and fall semesters.