Samir Kumar
Managing Director & General Partner @ Inventus Capital Partners
Bangalore, India
Samir Kumar is a Series A investor at Inventus Capital 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
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
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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
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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 | |
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VuNet Systems
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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
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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 | |
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MoveInSync
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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 | |
Savaari Car Rentals
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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
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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
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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 | |
Insta Health
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Launched in 2008, Insta Health Solutions is fast emerging as one of the most trusted and recognizable hospital management systems and EMR Solutions providers in the Healthcare sector. Insta Health's innovative solutions enables hospitals to automate their key processes -- clinical, financial, and operational management processes. InstaHealth Solutions consists of a team of experienced and dedicated professionals that each carries extensive experience in their own field. Their passion to implement highly successful strategies, provide affordable health care solutions, and introduce innovative technologies inspired them to create Insta Health Solutions whose sole aim is to transform and benefit hospitals across merging markets in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. | $1.3M / Series A / Apr 01, 2009 | |
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TELiBrahma
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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. | $2M / Series B / Sep 24, 2008 | |
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Co-Investors
Dallas Venture Capital
2 deals together
Mela Ventures
2 deals together
Ojas Venture Partners
2 deals together
Saama
2 deals together
TVS Capital Funds
2 deals together
Fidelity
1 deal together
About Inventus Capital Partners
Inventus Capital Partners is an investment firm that provides financial services to start-ups, entrepreneurs, and founders. The GPs have backed nearly 90 Founders to date, typically at the Seed or early-Series A stage, and invest with high conviction behind a very select number of new teams each year.Over the past 10 years, Inventus has helpedSilicon Valley founders grow from early-stage startups into meaningful companies with aggregate annual sales of over $1 billion today. Notable Inventus companies include Poshmark in the $330 billion fashion industry, Credit Sesame in the $500 billion consumer credit & finance markets, and Sierra Atlantic in the $100 billion outsourced product development industry.Investment themes include online consumer marketplaces and business automation software, but the Inventus GPs are particularly interested in backing Founders with a unique and often surprising vision for re-ordering industries and re-inventing consumer experiences for the digital age.While we make investments of conviction to lead financings and apply our own operating successes to coach Founders on strategy, hiring, and growth hacking, we’ve also institutionalized the persistent delivery of high-impact customer and partner introductions via CXOBridge.Inventus co-founded and catalyzed CXOBridge in 2016 with the goal of helping participating startups grow revenue 10x in 2years by matching them with decision-makers at Fortune1000 customers and partners. CXOBridge is an independent organization with a full-time team applying a merit-based approach to selecting startups that solve high-priority problems for the program’s Fortune-1000 participants. To date, 46 startups and 300+ corporates are active in the program, resulting in over $300m of value creation so far. CXOBridge provides startups persistent help with revenue growth and sales traction at scale and is the latest example of the unique capabilities of our firm.
Inventus Capital Partners Contacts
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John Dougery
Co-Founder & Managing Director
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Kanwal Rekhi
Managing Director and Co-Founder
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Manu Rekhi
Managing Director
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Manu Rekhi
Managing Director
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Rutvik Doshi
Managing Director
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FAQ
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.
When did Samir Kumar last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Samir Kumar closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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