About
Puneeth Meruva is a Partner at Trucks Venture Capital, which he joined as an intern during his final term at MIT before advancing through associate and senior associate roles to Partner in May 2023. He helped develop the firm's inbound evaluation process and led the build-out of its startup data platform, Trucks Radar. His work has focused on evaluating transportation startups.
Invests in
Mobility & TransportationSpace Tech
Experience
- Trucks Venture CapitalPartnercurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Trucks Venture CapitalSenior Associate2021 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
- Trucks Venture CapitalAssociate2020 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
- Trucks Venture CapitalAnalyst2019 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- EVCAMobility Vertical Co-Leadcurrent2020 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)Research Student (Bachelor's Thesis) at the Distributed Robotics Laboratory2018 — 2019Cambridge, Massachusetts
- UberSoftware Engineer2018San Francisco Bay Area
- BMW GroupSoftware Engineer & Product Manager2017Greater Munich Metropolitan Area
- Microsoft ResearchResearch Engineer2016Bangalore, India
- MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)Research Student at the MIT Robot Locomotion Group2015Cambridge, MA
- Carnegie Mellon UniversityResearch Student at the CMU Robotics Institute Biorobotics Laboratory2013 — 2015Greater Pittsburgh Region
Education
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science2015 — 2019
Skills & more
Leadership4Public Speaking3Artificial Intelligence5Autonomous Vehicles1Entrepreneurship11Automotive1Robotics16Machine Learning9Venture Capital2Transportation1Sensors5Computer Vision4
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ResearchControl Systems DesignRapid PrototypingPythonJavaSolidWorksData ScienceInternet of ThingsMachine VisionLanguages English · French · German · Hindi · Telugu
- Autodesk Inventor Certified User — Pearson VUE
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Also attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology977
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Shared employers
Also worked at Trucks Venture Capital5
Also worked at EVCA34
Chaya PatelPrincipal at Mission BiocapitalZoe van den BolInvestor at Alpha PartnersTyler FohrmanChief of Staff at Glasswing VenturesStefan SandovalPrincipal at SKY VCIan BalserAnalyst at Tech Square VenturesDenny GabrielVC Investor at Runa Capital
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Also worked at Uber251
Bill GurleyGeneral Partner Emeritus at BenchmarkJason CalacanisFounder of LAUNCH; host of This Week in StartupsAndrew ChenGeneral Partner at Andreessen HorowitzFrédérique DameInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Nic LowdenInvestor at Moonfire VenturesAnnie KadavyVenture Partner at Redpoint Ventures
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Also worked at BMW Group59
Eva KurzweilMarketing & Communications Lead at Burda Principal InvestmentsGonzalo Sánchez-ArjonaInvestment Director at Kibo VenturesItziar EstevezPartner - Growth at Iris CapitalSebastian SchuonCo-Founder at Alasco at PICUS CAPITALPhilip SpechtGeneral Partner at AENURich RobinsonInvestor at NZVC
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