Invests in
Min Investment:
$1,000,000.00Max Investment:
$50,000,000.00Target Investment:
$20,000,000.00
Skills
Education
- SU
Lists including Puneet
Investments
Understory
Total Funding: $32M
Moderne
Total Funding: $20M
KEWAZO
Total Funding: $15M
MedZERO
Total Funding: $15M
tray.io
Total Funding: $150M
Chameleon
Total Funding: $15M
Veza
Total Funding: $110M
Feroot Security
Total Funding: $12M
Verica
Total Funding: $12M
Gradle Inc.
Total Funding: $55M
Work Experience
2008
Early/Seed Stage Venture Capital
2008
Very early stage VC fund focused on backing promising entrepreneurs at the earliest stages in high growth technology segments. With its fund size, True has the ability to back entrepreneurs through various cycles but also align with the capital needs of the entrepreneur at the earliest stages.
Board Member/Investor
2008
Some of the Boards I serve on include Tray.io, Solo.io, HiMarley, Airship, Understory Weather, Gradle, Veza, Synadia, LiveStories, Baffle, Upsie and Submittable. I also led investments in Fractyl, Duo Security (sold to Cisco), Evident.io (sold to Palo Alto Networks), Apcera (sold to Ericsson), Hedvig (sold to Commvault), Datos.io (sold to Rubrik), Puppet (sold to Perforce), Solvvy (sold to Zoom), among others.
2006 - 2008
Vice President, Product Management
2006 - 2008
Managed and built first ever product management team for the company. Drove overall product roadmap of company working in both India and U.S. offices. Played significant role in driving entertainment and communication mobile products for carriers, consumers, and consumer Internet sites. Helped drive 100% year over year growth in revenue.
2002 - 2006
Director, Product Management and Marketing
2002 - 2006
Drove BEA's RFID strategy which led to acquisition of software company. Owned product management and marketing for RFID product line. Previously owned product marketing and competitive strategy for the application server, JRockit, and SOA product lines. Played key role in evangelizing product platform to both developers and CIOs worldwide.
1999 - 2002
Associate
1999 - 2002
Evaluated deal opportunities primarily in application software and infrastructure in addition to working with start-ups very closely. Sourced investment in Trigo, which was successfully sold to IBM.
1998 - 1999
Analyst
1998 - 1999
Worked on both IPOs and M&A within tech industry working with several companies including Vicinity, Hoovers Online, Cybersource, Foundry Networks, Intertrust, Agilent, IPIX, Tektronix, etc.
1997 - 1998
Product Manager
1997 - 1998
Joined as 50th employee and worked in product strategy. Crossworlds was eventually purchased by IBM. I worked during my Masters year at the company.