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SAMEER BRIJ VERMA

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Sameer is currently a Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners,where he opened & leads their Bangalore office.At Nexus, he has led investments in Postman,Unacademy,Hasura,Infra.market, Zolo,Ultrahuman,Zomato (via RoadRunnr),Quandl (NASDAQ),Goodera,MayaData,Joveo,Jumbotail,MyUpchar,Goals101 & Indix (Avalara).Prior to Nexus, Sameer was the founding member at Reliance Capital’s early stage venture capital fund (Reliance Ventures) where he led investments in PayTM (stake acquired by Chinese internet giant),HealthSpring (Columbia Pacific),Tessolve Semiconductor (Hero Electronix),Dhama Innovations (buy-back),Greendust,Stoke (Mavenir Systems) & EBand Communications (CarrierCom).Sameer founded Breakthrough Capital, a public market equity-focused investment entity managing his personal capital. Breakthrough's public market strategy is focused on special-situations & value-investing.His operational expertise is product management,business development,sales acceleration,recruiting,follow-on fundraising and scaling.He is an Advisor to AngelList India & Microsoft Ventures India and voted as a 40 under 40 Alternative Investment Professionals in India by IAAIF.He is also a Global Panel Member at MIT Technology Review and a Kautilya Fellow (Class of 2020). Sameer has served in operating roles at UTStarcom, Inc,Ericsson, and American Wireless BroadBand as a Product Manager, Solutions Architect and Network Architect.A life-long learner,Sameer earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering as an International & Founders Scholar from the Illinois Institute of Technology,Chicago.While at IllinoisTech, he also interned at Hughes Software Systems,UTStarcom,Spectranet and did undergraduate research work for National Science Foundation / Ed-Kaplan Foundation, Molex and IIT Research Institute (IITRI).