Sameer Verma

Sameer Verma is a partner at Nexus Venture Partners, where he has been an early-stage investor in over 38 companies. His investment focus spans across consumer internet, enterprise/SaaS, ed-tech, healthcare, and B2B commerce domains. Notable investments led by him include companies such as Postman, Unacademy, Infra.market, Zolo, Hasura.io, Ultrahuman, Quandl, RoadRunnr (Zomato), and Joveo. Prior to his role at Nexus Venture Partners, Sameer was a 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, Greendust, Stoke (Mavenir Systems), and EBand Communications (CarrierCom). His career also includes operating roles at UTStarcom, Inc, Ericsson AB, and American Wireless BroadBand, where he worked as a Product Manager, Solutions Architect, and Network Architect in the US, China, and India. Sameer serves as an Advisor to AngelList India and was previously an Advisor to Microsoft Ventures India. He was recognized as one of the ‘40 under 40 Alternative Investment Professionals in India 2018’ by IAAIF and is a Kautilya Fellow (Class of 2020). He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering as an International & Founders Scholar from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, and has interned at Hughes Software Systems, UTStarcom, Spectranet, and conducted undergraduate research for the National Science Foundation, Molex, and IIT Research Institute (IITRI).