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Sanjeev Kumar

Investor

Venture Partner at Fusion · Avataar Champion - AI Infra & Data at Avataar Venture Partners

Palo Alto, California, United States

About

Sanjeev Kumar is a Venture Partner at Fusion Fund who works with early-stage enterprise AI software companies, focusing on ML pipeline platforms, domain-specific ML systems, IIoT, and the industrial metaverse. He spent 2022-23 as a DCI Fellow at Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute studying AI enterprise software economics and business models. His prior career spans enterprise software roles at Informatica, BEA Systems, EMC, and Oracle, along with startups including Leapyear, Foghorn Systems, and Zambeel; he also served as Managing Director of India R&D at BEA Systems and Informatica in Bangalore.

Invests in

AI & Machine LearningBiotechData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareIoTSaaS

Experience

  1. Avataar Venture PartnersAdvisor, AI & Data Infrastructurecurrent2025 — presentBengaluru, Karnataka, India
  2. Fusion FundVenture Partnercurrent2023 — presentPalo Alto, California, United States
  3. Center for Large Landscape ConservationBoard Secretary, Governance and Strategy & Innovation Committees Membercurrent2024 — presentBozeman, Montana, United States
  4. Various StartupsAdvisor, Investor | Lean Startups - Company Strategy, GTM & Product Managementcurrent2015 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  5. ZeroportInvestorcurrent2026 — presentUnited States
  6. RWXInvestorcurrent2026 — present
  7. DBOS, Inc.Investorcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  8. HyperboundInvestorcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  9. e6dataInvestorcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  10. Lemmata, IncInvestorcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  11. Enkrypt AIAdvisor, Investorcurrent2023 — presentBoston, Massachusetts, United States
  12. Jacobi RoboticsInvestorcurrent2022 — presentBerkeley, California, United States
  13. RIIICOInvestorcurrent2022 — presentBerkeley, California, United States
  14. Berkeley SkyDeckLimited Partner, Key Advisorcurrent2021 — presentBerkeley, California, United States
  15. LeapYear TechnologiesMember, Executive Team | Executive Leadership & Early Customers2018Berkeley, CA
  16. Foghorn Systems, IncMember, Executive Team | Product Design Strategy & Customer Engagements2016 — 2017Mountain View, CA
  17. EMCVP, Common Products | Business Process Improvement & Product Lifecycle Management2014 — 2015Santa Clara, CA
  18. InformaticaGeneral Manager & MD, India | Data Engineering & Scaling Teams2008 — 2014Bangalore, India & Redwood City, CA
  19. BEA Systems Inc.General Manager & VP | Product Management & Product Engineering2004 — 2008Bangalore, India; San Jose, CA; Seattle, WA
  20. ResonateSenior Engineering Manager2001 — 2003Sunnyvale, CA
  21. ZambeelDirector, Systems Engineering1999 — 2001Fremont, CA
  22. Oracle Corp.Senior Product Manager, Oracle8i ORDBMS1995 — 1999Redwood Shores, CA
  23. Netscape CommunicationsSoftware Engineer1996Mountain View, California, United States
  24. Versant Object Technology, GemStone Corp., Object Design Inc.Software Engineer, Forward-Deployed Engineer1990 — 1995San Francisco Bay Area

Skills & more

Product Management78Distributed Systems99Cloud Computing99Big Data70Machine Learning4Agile Methodologies33Pre-sales29Software Project Management17Web Services14Professional Services11Artificial Intelligence (AI)2Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)10
+12 moreProduct InnovationBusiness Process ManagementExtract, Transform, Load (ETL)P&L ManagementData MiningBusiness TransformationData WarehousingCross-functional Team LeadershipC-Level CollaborationData Engineering & Data SciencePython (Programming Language)Hadoop

Languages English · Hindi

  • Venture Capital Executive Program — University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
  • Leadership The Challenge — International Leadership Association
  • The Value of Data and AI - Strategies for Senior Leadership — Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
  • Data Scientist with Python Track (26 courses involving - ML, DL, Statistics, SQL, Python, pandas) — DataCamp
  • AI for Everyone — Coursera
  • Leadership Immersion Program — Global Institute for Leadership Development
  • Strategy in Action — StratX Simulations
  • Developing World-Class Business Leaders - BEA Leadership Development Program — University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

From Sanjeev's professional profile.

Colleagues at Fusion

Ada AI
Senior Analyst at Fusion
Amit Srivastav
Venture Partner at Fusion
Auguste Fagniez
Senior Associate at Fusion
Charlotte Xia
Senior Associate at Fusion
David Gerster
Investment Partner at Fusion
Dhiren Patel
Digital Pharma Advisor at Excelerate Health Ventures
Harry Feng
Venture Partner at Fusion
Ivneet Bhullar
Investment Partner at Fusion

Frequently asked questions

Who is Sanjeev Kumar?
Sanjeev Kumar is a Venture Partner at Fusion Fund who works with early-stage enterprise AI software companies, focusing on ML pipeline platforms, domain-specific ML systems, IIoT, and the industrial metaverse. He spent 2022-23 as a DCI Fellow at Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute studying AI enterprise software economics and business models. His prior career spans enterprise software roles at Informatica, BEA Systems, EMC, and Oracle, along with startups including Leapyear, Foghorn Systems, and Zambeel; he also served as Managing Director of India R&D at BEA Systems and Informatica in Bangalore.
Where does Sanjeev Kumar work?
Sanjeev Kumar is Venture Partner at Fusion.
What does Sanjeev Kumar invest in?
Sanjeev Kumar invests in AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, IoT, SaaS.
Where did Sanjeev Kumar go to school?
Sanjeev Kumar studied at Stanford University (Distinguished Careers Institute (DCI) Fellowship, Topics: Economics of Data & AI); Rutgers University (Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science (Databases); Rutgers University (Master of Science - MS, Computer Science).

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Shared employers

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