Radhesh Kanumury Launches Suvan Ventures
Summary
Industry veteran Radhesh Kanumury is to launch Suvan Ventures, a new venture fund focused on early stage B2B Indian cross-border SaaS companies (those which sell into global markets like US and Europe but have development/ customer success/ marketing teams in India). Mumbai, India-based Suvan Ventures will identify and invest in companies early in their lifecycle and help them scale by providing mentoring, as well as invaluable connections to investors, partners, subject matter experts, system integrators and potential customers. Radhesh will continue to lead some of the investments from Arka Venture Labs post January this year. Before Arka Venture Labs, he had an 18 year stint with IBM with roles across technology, sales, and business development. During his final 3.5 years there he led IBM India’s startup initiative working exclusively with B2B startups, providing mentoring and connections to the right set of people in the ecosystems, enabling them to successfully and rapidly scale.