Simran Puri

Principal at Riverbend Venture Partners · marketplaces, brands

Riverbend Venture Partners

New Delhi, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

8+ years experience

Indian Statistical Institute

English, Hindi

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Overview

I invest in consumer at Riverbend Venture Partners, usually at pre-seed and seed. Previously an operator for 6 years before investing. Before that: Flipkart and Paytm. Most at home with marketplaces and brands. I tinker with 3D printers.

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venture capitalmarketplacesbrands

InvestingLooking to invest

closes in 3 months

Writing $1M cheques into pre-seed consumer in North America

Cheque size: $1M
Stages: Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors: Consumer
Geographies: MENA
Lead or follow: Co-lead
Decision time: About two weeks
How I help: First enterprise customers and pricing

Usually the first cheque in. We reply to every founder.

New Delhi, India · remote OKbrandsmarketplacesventure capital

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Experience

Principal
Dec 2022 - Present
Riverbend Venture Partners · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
- Sit on 7 boards.
- Led or co-led 25 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later.
- Backed 19 founders at pre-seed and seed.
Senior Product Manager
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
Flipkart · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
- Launched the marketplace product in 8 markets.
Director of Product
Mar 2019 - Oct 2021
Paytm · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
- Killed 6 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.

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Education

Indian Statistical Institute
M.Stat, Finance
2019 - 2021
Christ University
BBA, Finance
2013 - 2017

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