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Kaustubh Mundra

Investment team at Peak XV Partners

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Overview 

Kaustubh Mundra is currently leading Seed and Series A investments at PeakXV in Bengaluru, Karnataka, with a background in leadership and management roles at top firms like Sequoia Capital and Bain & Company. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and has experience in areas such as public speaking, machine learning, and data analysis.

Work Experience 

  • Investment team

    2022 - Current

  • Investment team - Surge

    2022 - 2023

Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.

  • Consultant

    2019 - 2022

    Focus on due diligence and strategic support to portfolio companies of PE/ VC funds. Offered early promotion to Consultant.

  • Co-Founder

    2017 - 2019

    Tech: Using image/ video processing to detect signs of fatigue/ sleep Business use case: Sleep detection for prevention of road accidents Winner of Samsung Innovation Awards’17

  • NLP research - Intern

    2018 - 2018

    Tech: Semantic querying Business use case: Searching 'apple' should result in both fruit and iPhones

  • Machine Learning - Intern

    2017 - 2017

    Tech: Built CNNs in Tensorflow to classify images (room, facade, washroom), identify objects (TV, Linen, etc.) and score image quality (pixelation, yellow lighting, image angle, etc.). Business angle: Onboarding properties on app/ website with high quality images of different property areas - important to improve conversions

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