Title
Senior Director
Company
SingTel Innov8
Bio
Punit is a Senior Director for SingTel Innov8 Ventures focused on the fund’s North American activity, leading investments in Neura.me, Edmodo, TubeMogul (IPO: 2014), Nexage (acq: Millennial Media), and Tempo.ai (acq: Salesforce). Punit joined Innov8 in 2011 shortly after the fund was formalized and has helped grow the fund to more than 50 investments globally. He has a number of years of venture experience as a broad technology investor, most recently Panorama Capital, where he was instrumental in the firm’s investments in Nineth Decimal, Neoconix, Validity (acq: Synaptics), Fixmo (acq: Good Technologies) and Tynt (acq: 33Across). Punit’s operating experience includes more than nine years product and technology development in the areas of advanced server technologies most notably at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. Punit holds a B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University, a Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Michigan where he was a Frankel Fellow and Mondry Scholar. He is also a graduate of the prestigious Kauffman Fellows Program where he remains active.