Samir Kumar
Managing Director & General Partner @ Athera Venture Partners
Bangalore, India
Samir Kumar is a Series A investor at Athera Venture Partners in Bangalore focused on Software and Information Technology. Samir became an early-stage institutional venture investor in India in 2001 following a 15 year operating career with high growth Indian companies.Industry Executive - For ten years from 1988 to 1999, Samir was part of the early team at Wipro (NYSE: WIT), one of India’s largest and most highly valued IT companies. Samir was a founding member ofWipro’s joint venture with Acer Computer in Taiwan to design, build and sell computers for the Indian market.Venture Investor - Samir became a venture capitalist in India when he joined Acer Technology Ventures in 2001- a $260 million institutional venture fund investing in technology and services companies in India, the U.S. and the Asia Pacific region. Samir led the firm's early-stage India venture practice in Banglaore, financing a number of Indian and U.S.-India companies. Samir was active on the Boards of the ATV India portfolio companies, resulting in several profitable exits to date including RelQ and Indecomm Global Services. At Inventus, Samir is a Board Director at Cbazaar, Telibrahma, InstaHealth, Sokrati & Savaari.India Entrepreneurial leader - Samir is well established in India's entrepreneurial and venture communities with a broad network of business contacts throughout India and the Asia Pacific region. Samir is on the Governing Body of TiE Bangalore, and is an active Charter Member mentoring entrepreneurs. Samir is also active in his IIT & IIM Alumni networks, and is an active speaker at various entrepreneurial events in India.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
Last updated:
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Industries Samir Kumar invests in
Stages Samir Kumar invests in
Countries Samir Kumar invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (23%)
- Information Technology 3 (23%)
- Internet 2 (15%)
- Analytics 2 (15%)
- Logistics 2 (15%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (46%)
- Series B 5 (38%)
- Seed 1 (8%)
- Series C 1 (8%)
Country
- India 7 (54%)
- United States 1 (8%)
- United Arab Emirates 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Skyfall AI builds AI-driven Enterprise Super Intelligence, so that businesses can plan, decide, and operate by themselves efficiently. | Seed / Jul 20, 2026 | ||
| VuNet Systems is founded by a group of professionals with decades of experience in designing and developing world class networking products. We have built an advanced Big Data Analytics product to better manage the complex IT infrastructure of enterprises.VuNet's game changing approach is to bring together and correlate real timeinformation across an entire IT infrastructure landscape of users, network, security and applications to provide unified visibility, operational and security analytics. | $6.9M / Series B / Jan 23, 2025 | ||
| VuNet Systems is founded by a group of professionals with decades of experience in designing and developing world class networking products. We have built an advanced Big Data Analytics product to better manage the complex IT infrastructure of enterprises.VuNet's game changing approach is to bring together and correlate real timeinformation across an entire IT infrastructure landscape of users, network, security and applications to provide unified visibility, operational and security analytics. | $5M / Series A / Nov 16, 2022 | ||
| MoveInSync is in the business of organizing transportation for India. The company has built a transport management platform which is used to move people or goods in an efficient manner.One of the solution built using this platform is Employee Transportation solution. The solution is used by organizations in IT, BPO and Airlines sectors whichprovide pickup and drop services for their employees. The solution helps these organizations reduce cost and improve employee satisfaction. This benefits are achieved by reducing employee travel time through route optimization. To ensure the safety of women employees traveling at odd hours we develop a safe travel corridor, which is based on data of her past travel routes and traffic stops. This system has been operational since Aug 2011 and has some top companies in each sector in the client list. | $8M / Series B / Apr 03, 2018 | ||
| KNOLSKAPE (www.knolskape.com) is an award winning serious gaming and simulation software company focusing on management training, assessments and research. Since 2008, KNOLSKAPE has been delighting managers from Fortune 500 companies, students at top B-schools, top-notch academicians and recruiters with simulation based products and services.KNOLSKAPE believes that the best way of learning and assessing capabilities is by doing. Keeping with this philosophy, KNOLSKAPE has been developing engaging, immersive and real life-like products and services such as business simulations, multimedia case studies, virtual learning tools. | Series A / Apr 22, 2016 | ||
| Cbazaar is the largest online Indian Ethnic Wear Store. Cbazaar offers a myriad of Indian Ethnic Wear for men, women and kids and has patronage in over 130 countries. It offers timeless Indian styles, as well as chic reinvented styles, in designer wear, party wear and everyday fashion. Cbazaar is a pioneer in Indian Ethnic Wear. The Collectionincludes over 16,000 exquisite designs. Be it, Wedding Wear or Festive Apparels or trendy Daily Wear, Cbazaar is a one-stop-solution to get Indian Ethnic Wear and Accessories, online. We also house Designer Sarees, Salwar Kameez, Designer Kurtis, Lehenga-Cholis, Kids Clothing, Indian Ethnic Wear for Men, Designer Sherwanis, Kurta Pyjama, Pathani Suits and many more. With a modest beginning, Cbazaar today is a pioneer in the Indian e-retailing industry. Team Cbazaar is backed by over 350 talented Fashion Designers, Dressmakers, Programmers, Designers, Customer Engagement Executives, etc. Cbazaar has 3 unique in-house brands RaiR, Bollywood Vogue, and Modni. These brands house some of the finest cuts, fabrics and styles. | Series B / Nov 05, 2014 | ||
| MoveInSync is in the business of organizing transportation for India. The company has built a transport management platform which is used to move people or goods in an efficient manner.One of the solution built using this platform is Employee Transportation solution. The solution is used by organizations in IT, BPO and Airlines sectors whichprovide pickup and drop services for their employees. The solution helps these organizations reduce cost and improve employee satisfaction. This benefits are achieved by reducing employee travel time through route optimization. To ensure the safety of women employees traveling at odd hours we develop a safe travel corridor, which is based on data of her past travel routes and traffic stops. This system has been operational since Aug 2011 and has some top companies in each sector in the client list. | $4M / Series A / Aug 07, 2014 | ||
| Our mission is to provide world class car rental services in India with prices that compete with the ones offered by "around the corner" local rental car providers. Through extensive use of technology, we keep our operating costs low to provide excellent services, and pass on the savings to our customers. | $27M / Series B / Oct 24, 2013 | ||
| TELiBrahma is a mobile solutions company located in Bangalore, India - products, solutions, partners in the mobile computing space. They are also into mobile advertising in India. In 2007, Red Herring recognized TELiBrahma as one of the 'Best Startups in the world, and declared Telibrahma the winner of the Red Herring Global 100 Awards2007. In the same year, it was conferred as one of the Top Innovators in India by Nasscom and the company has also won the 'Deloitte Technology Fast India 2007 program' conducted by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Asia Pacific. | $5M / Series C / Nov 16, 2011 | ||
| Sokrati is a Digital Marketing and Analytics company in India, founded by ex-Amazonians primarily to address existing inefficiencies & challenges in managing Search Marketing campaigns for Advertisers in Online Retail & Travel Sectors. We've now grown & expanded our services to offer an integrated platform to effectively manageCampaigns across Search, Display & Social Medial Digital Marketing Networks.With the passion to build a large company in the global digital marketing space, recently Sokrati secured series A funding from venture capital investor, Inventus Capital Partners. Sokrati is also Google's largest SMB partner in India. Today, Sokrati drives over 12 million monthly visits to advertisers by managing over 100 million active ad entities on a real-time basis. Several top brands in e-commerce, travel and finance sectors across India and USA enjoy higher conversion rates with Sokrati’s digital marketing and analytics platform. Sokrati has been named as one of the ‘Top 20 Hottest Technology Startups’ in India by Techcircle. | $1M / Series A / Mar 09, 2011 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Athera Venture Partners
Athera Venture Partners is an early-stage Venture Captial firm that invests in Series A rounds in technology focussed companies. We invest across sectors in both B2B and B2C areas.
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Samir Kumar
Managing Director & General Partner
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What does Samir Kumar invest in?
Samir Kumar invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Internet startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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