Sanjeev Kumar
Venture Partner
Sanjeev Kumar is a Venture Partner at Fusion Fund. He has been working with entrepreneurs at early-stage enterprise AI software companies for the last five years, with a focus on ML pipeline platforms, domain-specific ML systems, IIoT, and the broader industrial metaverse. During 2022-23, Sanjeev was a DCI Fellow at Stanford University’s Distinguished Careers Institute, studying the economics and business models behind AI-based enterprise software platforms and products.
Sanjeev has had a long career in enterprise software, working at leading companies in Silicon Valley and Bangalore, including Informatica, BEA Systems, EMC, and Oracle Corporation. He has been an entrepreneur at various start-ups (Leapyear, Foghorn Systems, and Zambeel) and an intrapreneur at Fortune 100 companies building databases, file systems, data engineering, and machine learning platforms. A self-confessed data geek, Sanjeev was instrumental in deploying the geographic information system database software used on American tanks in the 1990 Iraq war.
More recently, Sanjeev was the Managing Director of India R&D at BEA Systems and Informatica Corp while based in Bangalore, India. At Informatica, he led ~40% of the worldwide engineering team at its largest software development center outside the US. He was responsible for initiating and scaling up new product teams and functions, driving cross-functional initiatives, and engaging with strategic customers in the region. Sanjeev is most proud of starting the CTO Office at the India Lab while sponsoring research projects at tier-1 engineering schools in India. Prior to Informatica, Sanjeev held GM/P&L roles for several products at BEA Systems in San Jose, CA. Earlier in his career, Sanjeev was a senior product manager for Oracle’s Oracle8i database.
Sanjeev holds an MS in Computer Science from Rutgers University, and a BS in Computer Science from BITS, Pilani, India. He still enjoys studying new developments in ML, data engineering, and AI economics. His other interests include pickleball, watching test cricket, hiking, and photography.