Sunny Midha
Growth Investor | Buyside Advisor
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Investor
2021 - Current
Paradox is an AI company that helps companies capture and screen candidates, improve conversions, and answer all candidate questions.
Raised $253,340,000.00 from Workday Ventures, Blue Cloud Ventures, DLA Piper, Geodesic Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Brighton Park Capital, Twilio, Willoughby Capital, Principia Growth and Indeed.
Investor
2021
#1 Financial Research & Market Intelligence Platform
AlphaSense is a platform harnessing AI to deliver insights, helping professionals make informed, impactful decisions.
Raised $1,420,053,806.00 from BDT & MSD Partners, Blue Owl, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, SoftBank Vision Fund, CapitalG, Alkeon Capital, Viking Global Investors and Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
Investor
2020
#1 Autonomous Trucking Software
TuSimple is a self-driving truck company developing technology that allows them to drive from depot-to-depot without human intervention.
Raised $648,071,101.00 from Goodyear Ventures.
Board Advisor to Proptech Firm
2020
Interim CFO / Legal Debt Restructuring Advisor Fundraising FP&A
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.
Principal
2020
Late Stage Growth Technology Investing Investments into areas such as Deep Tech, AI / ML, Robotics, FinTech, B2B SaaS, Marketplaces, Media, B2C Portfolio - AlphaSense (AI / SaaS) - TuSimple (Autonomy Software in Trucking) - Seegrid (Autonomy Software in Industrial Sector)
Principia Growth helps standout management teams build innovative and transformative companies.
Fractional CFO | FP&A
2020
Investment Banking - Media & Technology Group (Media/Sports/Music/Entertainment/eSports/Gaming)
2016 - 2020
Closed M&A Deals - Sports Illustrated (on behalf of Meredith) sale to Authentic Brands Group (Digital Media / Print) - Vix sale to Univision (OTT Avod Platform) - Machine Zone sale to AppLovin (Mobile Gaming) - FanSided (on behalf of Meredith) sale to Minute Media (Digital Media) - Zya sale to Google (AI / Technology / Music) - Cadence13 sale to Entercom (Podcasting) - Vertical Networks sale to Whistle Sports (Content Studio) - Popcornflix sale to Chicken Soup for the Soul (OTT) - SheKnows sale to Penske Media (Digital Media / AdTech) - ForeSee sale to Verint (Voice of the Consumer) - Answers Chapter 11 (Restructuring) Sector Coverage - Digital Video / OTT - Technology / Software - Digital Media / Internet / Mobile - Sports and eSports - Podcasting - Music - Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality - Video Gaming - Film Slate Funding - Blue Sky Technology - Live Entertainment
Houlihan Lokey is an investment bank that offers financial services.
Greycroft Partners
2015 - 2015
Greycroft is a top tier venture capital firm based in NYC and LA with $1B AUM Focused on TMT coverage and media / technology convergence during MBA internship Advisory work on sale of portfolio company AlphaDraft to FanDuel Speaking at "Digital Hollywood" in October 2015 on Virtual Reality financing Coverage Areas: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Gaming, eSports, Media, Content, IP, Mobile Marketplaces, Ecommerce, SaaS, Marketplaces, Drones
Greycroft is a venture capital firm that focuses on technology start-ups and investments in the Internet and mobile markets.
Member
2014 - 2015
www.angellab.co.uk - London based angel group with experience across finance, technology and high growth business Investments: Elastera (cloud hosting for magento)
Head Of Ecommerce\CTO & Digital Marketing
2011 - 2014
E-Commerce & Technology Innovation - Zaggora.com Heading up technology build projects on Magento, platform development, UI/UX testing with web development team using HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP as well as facebook apps, iOS and social gaming Digital Marketing - AdWords, Merchant Centre, Marin, AdForm, XML Feeds, Conversation Tracking Skunkworks - analysis of blue sky venture projects Creative Director - working on all major marketing campaigns from copywriting to visual production Magento - expert user Generated over $40m sales since starting in 2011. Business Awards: Orange National Business Awards 2012 Winner - Ecommerce strategy of the year BT Retail Week Technology Awards 2012 Nomination - Marketing and Customer Insight Solution of the Year Paypal Drapers Etail-Awards 2012 Nomination - Best Pure-Play Etailer, Best International Commerce and Best use of marketing
Education
BSc (Hons)
2001 - 2004
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
2014 - 2016
Master of Science - MS
2019 - 2021
Master of Science - MS
2017 - 2019
MA
2007 - 2009