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Kulveer Taggar

Startups at Investor Investor

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Kulveer Taggar is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor, having founded and successfully exited two startups from Y Combinator. Currently, he serves as an early stage investor, with a focus on seed-stage investments in sectors such as social networks and consumer internet, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area. Taggar's career highlights include founding Zeus and Auctomatic, as well as investing in successful companies like Pythagora and Zesty.

Work Experience 

  • Startups

    2010 - Current

    Angel investor in Meetings.io (exited), Airhelp, Boom, Cover Financial, Tovala, Rickshaw.

  • CEO & Cofounder

    2015 - 2023

    Zeus is tech driven property manager focused on corporate housing. My cofounders are Srini Panguluri (Stanford) and Joe Wong (MIT). NFX & Y Combinator company.

Zeus Living provides furnished housing intended for business and personal travel.

Raised $151,570,000.00 from TI Platform Management, Susquehanna International Group (SIG), NFX, BBQ Capital, Miras, Initialized Capital, Castor Ventures and Eric Wu.

  • Co-founder

    2007 - 2008

    Making online auctions easier. Y Combinator company, Winter Founders 2007. Sold for $5m in 2008.

  • Co-founder

    2006 - 2007

    Co-founded the largest marketplace for students in the UK. Raised $350k angel investment, including from Y Combinator, before moving to the States to do Auctomatic.com.

  • Analyst

    2001 - 2006

    I first interned at DB in 2001 for 9 months, working in UK Economics and then Securitisation Research. In 2004 I interned again in Credit Structuring and Commodities Research. In 2005 I joined the Class of 2005 for Global Markets, and worked in Global Equity Derivatives, DCM Sales and a month in New York as an Oil Equity analyst. Cool bank.

DB Capital Ventures invests in early-stage and emerging growth businesses and is a venture capital firm based in New York.

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