Sameer Verma

Sameer has been an early-stage investor in over 38 companies.

His operational expertise lies in product management, business development, sales acceleration, recruiting, follow-on fundraising, and scaling. At Nexus, Sameer focuses on consumer internet, enterprise / SaaS, ed-tech, healthcare and B2B commerce domains. At Nexus, Sameer has led investments in Postman, Unacademy, Infra.market, Zolo, Hasura.io, Ultrahuman, Quandl, RoadRunnr (Zomato), Joveo and a variety of other companies.

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, HealthSpring (Columbia Pacific), Tessolve Semiconductor (Hero Electronix), Dhama Innovations (strategic buy-back), Greendust, Stoke (Mavenir Systems) & EBand Communications (CarrierCom). Sameer has previously served in operating roles at UTStarcom, Inc, Ericsson AB and American Wireless BroadBand, as a Product Manager, Solutions Architect, and Network Architect in the US, China and India. He is an Advisor to AngelList India & was earlier an Advisor to Microsoft Ventures India. He was voted as a “40 under 40 Alternative Investment Professionals in India 2018″ by IAAIF. He is also a Kautilya Fellow (Class of 2020).

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, Molex and IIT Research Institute (IITRI).