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Sanjay Nath

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States30 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-founder of Blume Ventures, a leading venture fund.
  • Expert in enterprise SaaS and cross-border technology.
  • Successful angel investor with notable exits.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Venture Capitalist with expertise in SaaS and technology investments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Venture CapitalInvestment Strategy

Other Skills

AnalyticsAcquisition IntegrationAngel InvestingAnalysis

About

Sanjay Nath is a Co-founder and Managing Partner at Blume Ventures, one of India's leading early-stage venture funds, which he co-founded with Karthik Reddy in 2010. Blume focuses on Seed to Pre-Series A stages of funding and has made over 100 investments across its 11-year history across multiple funds. Sanjay has invested in and advises a wide portfolio of startups including Grey Orange (Robotics), Lambdatest, Locus, PixxelSpace, Yulu, Dataweave, Tricog, Sprinto, Zipy.ai, Vitrina.ai and Nektar.ai amongst others. Sanjay’s investments at Blume also include exits, notably Minjar (acquired by Nutanix), Agaralabs (acquired by Coinbase), TapChief (acquired by Unacademy) and more. Sectorally, he focuses mainly on Enterprise/SaaS and cross-border technology platforms. Sanjay also leads Blume’s Platform's Go To Market (GTM) initiatives that focus on helping enterprise startups targeting global markets with GTM strategies and execution plans. Sanjay also represents Blume on the boards of Arka Venture Labs and the Draper Venture Network. Prior to Blume, Sanjay held consulting and management roles at Sun Microsystems, PwC and IBM Global Services (all in Silicon Valley). He also had an entrepreneurial stint as Co-founder of Loxodrome Inc., a Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) services venture, with a dual base in San Francisco and Pune, India. Sanjay got his start in venture capital as an angel investor through Mumbai Angels. His angel investments include InMobi, LittleEye Labs (acquired by Meta), Tonbo Imaging and Svasti Microfinance amongst others. Sanjay holds an undergraduate degree from BITS Pilani (where he is an active mentor to startups) and an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Sanjay divides his time between San Francisco and Mumbai.

Experience

Grey orange pte ltd

Advisor

Jan 2012Present · 14 yrs 3 mos · Gurgaon, India

Mettl

Board Member

Jan 2011Present · 15 yrs 3 mos · Gurgaon, Delhi

Blume ventures

Co-founder & Managing Partner

Oct 2010Present · 15 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai, India

AnalyticsAcquisition IntegrationAngel InvestingAnalysisVenture CapitalInvestment Strategy

Tie

Charter Member

Jan 2008Present · 18 yrs 3 mos · Mumbai, India

  • www.tie.org

Loxodrome solutions inc.

Founder and CEO

Oct 2006Dec 2009 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Loxodrome Solutions™ provides high quality legal services to meet the increasingly complex and competitive demands placed on corporate legal departments and outside law firms.
  • Loxodrome Solutions leverages time tested project management principles, exceptional people, innovative technology, and comprehensive security practices to deliver high quality legal services that align with our customer’s strategies and goals.
  • Loxodrome’s Client-Centric project management makes certain that our clients benefit beyond specialization, economies of scale and labor arbitrage by realizing dramatic improvements in their internal operational efficiency, productivity, and quality.
  • Changing the Legal Paradigm.
  • www.loxodromesolutions.com
  • Loxodrome Solutions, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
  • Loxodrome Solutions India Pvt. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Loxodrome Solutions, Inc.

Inmobi

Seed Investor

Mar 2006Present · 20 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore, India

Mumbai angels

Member

Jan 2006Present · 20 yrs 3 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • www.mumbaiangels.com

Ibm global services

Principal

Oct 2002Jun 2006 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Principal within IBM Business Consulting Services practice, with a focus on advising senior client executives on global issues of strategic, financial, organizational and technology impact
  • Working with IBM India practice to ramp up recruiting activities, with a focus on developing a global talent pool to augment senior North America professionals

Pwc consulting

Consultant

Oct 1999Oct 2002 · 3 yrs

  • As Consultant within PwC's Management Consulting practice, analyzing strategic issues mainly in the high tech industry, related to merger integration, organizational readiness, market assessments, competition positioning and market entry strategies

Sun microsystems

Marketing Manager

Jun 1998Sep 1998 · 3 mos

  • Worked closely with Group Marketing Manager to develop software product strategy and competitive positioning
  • Conceived story for newly formed offering; developed strategic framework for responding to competitive threats. Invited to Sun’s annual Global Marketing & Sales conference
  • Managed business analyst; recommended key alliances for growing sales volume and customer base. Created content and wrote executive presentation on benefits for software marketing strategy/sales team

Reachout communications

Co-founder and Marketing Manager

Jun 1994Jul 1997 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Conceived, grew and ran an Internet business; managed teams; and led market expansion efforts
  • Co-founded e-mail services venture with minimal start-up capital. Assessed emerging market and designed market entry strategy. Identified target audience and segmented market based on customer trends and competitive threats
  • Designed a product strategy to manage transition from email services to include Intranet software and consulting. Led successful marketing campaign for generating leads and increasing demand for new services. Strategic targeting yielded superior 30% campaign conversation rate (vs. 15% avg.) and lowered cost/lead by over 50%

Kanbay

Analyst

Jan 1994Jan 1997 · 3 yrs

  • Sanjay was closely involved with Kanbay Software, one of India’s IT software services pioneers, that he helped his father Dileep Nath co-found in 1989.
  • He helped support its growth and transformation into a global IT services player, reaching over 6,000 employees across four continents; Kanbay listed on the Nasdaq in 2004 and was eventually acquired by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in 2007 at a market capitalization of $1.25 billion.

Expert software consultants

Marketing & Sales Intern

Jan 1994Jun 1994 · 5 mos

Education

UCLA Anderson School of Management

MBA

Jan 1997Jan 1999

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor's degree — Information Technology

Jan 1990Jan 1994

JAI HIND COLLEGE, MUMBAI

Bombay Scottish

BITS Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Information Systems

Jan 1990Jan 1994

UCLA

MBA

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