Meera Balakumar
Fulbright fellow with a bias for action and over 12 years of experience in driving innovation in the private asset management industry.
San Francisco, California
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$10.00Max Investment:
$60.00Target Investment:
$25.00
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Building
2020
Concurrent and/or overlapping roles providing strategic advisory and hands-on execution to technology startups. I focus on honing go-to-market strategy, sales enablement, revenue operations and customer success. Advisor to several startups, including: M2M Capital, OpenLaw, SpectrifyAI, Navable, S64 Capital Innovaton, Ortus, Quottly Advisor to accelerators and venture studios, including: Veracity AI: Singapore-based AI venture studio TechStars Accelerator Mentor JP Morgan Spring Cohort Samvid Ventures Fall Cohort U.S. SBA annual national accelerator funding competition panel judge
Investment Committee Member
2022
Venture investing in entrepreneurs with a performing arts background and in the early stages of building the next unicorn. We believe these entrepreneurs bring a unique mix of creative innovation, discipline and successful execution.
2019 - 2022
Head of Business Development
2019 - 2022
Technology solutions and strategic partnerships for CFOs of venture-backed SaaS companies.
2020 - 2021
Advisory Board Member
2020 - 2021
Renewable energy projects for long-term clean power generation strategies.
2008 - 2019
Founder, CEO
2008 - 2019
Cloud-based utilities for LPs and GPs in the institutional alternative asset management industry.
2004 - 2008
Senior Associate
2004 - 2008
$6 billion of institutional real estate private equity transactions in North America, Europe and Asia.
Fulbright Fellow
2001 - 2004
Capital markets access for small enterprise finance in Asia and Africa.
Faculty of Economics
2001 - 2002
Collaborated with Dean of Faculty of Economics to analyze South African capital markets and corporate governance in African countries.
2000 - 2001
Senior Analyst, Technology Investment Banking
2000 - 2001
Technology investment banking.
1998 - 2000
Analyst, Investment Banking
1998 - 2000
Banc of America Montgomery Securities.