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Kunal Basu

Innovation Associate at Parsons Corporation

Dubai

Overview 

Kunal Basu is currently serving as the Innovation Associate at Parsons Corporation in Dubai, specializing in areas such as financial analysis, venture capital, and innovation consulting. He previously held the role of Head of Ventures at Plug and Play Tech Center in Toronto, where he invested in companies at various stages and sectors, showcasing a strong background in corporate venture capital and data analysis.

Work Experience 

  • Innovation Associate

    2023 - Current

Parsons is an engineering, construction, technical and management services firm.

Raised $700,000,000.00.

  • Head of Ventures - Toronto

    2022 - 2023

  • Investor

    2020 - 2023

    - Supported corporate partners in open innovation initiatives to solve their business challenges - Curated over 100 lists of startups for corporate partners including Walmart, Unilever, SwissPost - Built market trends reports highlighting the funding and deal landscape across various sectors - Sourced over 600 early-stage investment opportunities leading to investments in a number of startups - Conducted startup due diligence reports containing revenue analysis and cap table modeling - Investments: Rapidfort, QuikReturn (acq. by Veho), Syncware, Gig and Take, Everest, Delivers.ai, Achilleion, Qaptis, Chexy

Plug & Play Topeka is a Venture Capital company that offers corporate Innovation, open Innovation, and accelerator Programs.

  • Lab Engineer Intern

    2019 - 2020

Email Filtering Company

Raised $35,000,000.00 from TCV, Crosslink Capital, NortonLifeLock, Critical Path, Accel, Opportunity Capital Partners, Esther Dyson, Bill Joy and Thomas Weisel Partners.

  • Software Engineer Intern

    2018 - 2018

  • Research Intern

    2017 - 2017

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