Puneet Kumar

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Mr. Puneet Kumar serves as Managing Director at Steadview Capital Management. He serves as Board Member at Urbanic. He served as Vice President at Nexus Venture Partners. He finds his passion and purpose in simplifying how businesses and consumers interact with one another through technology. Through his work, he enjoys nurturing his passion for finding and growing lifelong friendships. He is most excited about SaaS platforms, Agri-tech, Gaming, and Fin-tech in India. In his life before Nexus, he dabbled with entrepreneurship, consulting, and advising startups in education, entertainment, SaaS, and consumer tech. Most recently, he led one of McKinsey's first sales acceleration programs for a leading SaaS startup in India. During his time at McKinsey, he led projects that helped companies bring new and disruptive technologies to market in the US, Europe, and India. His most engaging experience pre-McKinsey included stints at a global macro hedge fund (Passport Capital) and with start-ups in Silicon Valley and India in consumer tech. He grew up around small-scale entrepreneurs and farmers in a small town in Rajasthan. He studied engineering at IIT Madras and has complemented his engineering education through an MBA from the Stanford GSB and the CFA program. He joined Stanford as a Reliance Dhirubhai Fellow (100% sponsorship) and graduated as an Arjay Miller Scholar (top 10% of the class).