Puneet Agarwal
Investor at Startup companies
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Early/Seed Stage Venture Capital
2008 - Current
Very early stage VC fund focused on backing promising entrepreneurs at the earliest stages in high growth technology segments. With its fund size, True has the ability to back entrepreneurs through various cycles but also align with the capital needs of the entrepreneur at the earliest stages.
True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Board Member/Investor
2008
Some of the Boards I serve on include Tray.io, Solo.io, HiMarley, Airship, Understory Weather, Gradle, Veza, Synadia, LiveStories, Baffle, Upsie and Submittable. I also led investments in Fractyl, Duo Security (sold to Cisco), Evident.io (sold to Palo Alto Networks), Apcera (sold to Ericsson), Hedvig (sold to Commvault), Datos.io (sold to Rubrik), Puppet (sold to Perforce), Solvvy (sold to Zoom), among others.
Vice President, Product Management
2006 - 2008
Managed and built first ever product management team for the company. Drove overall product roadmap of company working in both India and U.S. offices. Played significant role in driving entertainment and communication mobile products for carriers, consumers, and consumer Internet sites. Helped drive 100% year over year growth in revenue.
Director, Product Management and Marketing
2002 - 2006
Drove BEA's RFID strategy which led to acquisition of software company. Owned product management and marketing for RFID product line. Previously owned product marketing and competitive strategy for the application server, JRockit, and SOA product lines. Played key role in evangelizing product platform to both developers and CIOs worldwide.
BEA provides enterprise application and service infrastructure software enabling companies to streamline operations and cut costs.
Raised $50,000,000.00 from Alfred Chuang and Warburg Pincus.
Associate
1999 - 2002
Evaluated deal opportunities primarily in application software and infrastructure in addition to working with start-ups very closely. Sourced investment in Trigo, which was successfully sold to IBM.
Mayfield is an early-stage VC firm investing in enterprise, deeptech, and human and planetary health companies.
Analyst
1998 - 1999
Worked on both IPOs and M&A within tech industry working with several companies including Vicinity, Hoovers Online, Cybersource, Foundry Networks, Intertrust, Agilent, IPIX, Tektronix, etc.
J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation provides commodity risk management solutions in both the physical .
Product Manager
1997 - 1998
Joined as 50th employee and worked in product strategy. Crossworlds was eventually purchased by IBM. I worked during my Masters year at the company.