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Puneet Agarwal

Partner at True Ventures

Palo Alto, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $20,000,000.00

Skills

Start-ups
Enterprise Software
Java
Product Management
SaaS
Cloud Computing
Venture Capital
Entrepreneurship
Product Marketing
Strategy
Start-up Ventures
Business Development
Mergers & Acquisitions
Mobile Applications
Mobile Devices
Business Strategy

Education

Work Experience

  • 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.

Startup companies

2008

  • 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.

Crossworlds Software

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.