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title: "Shannath Kumar - Investment Associate in Bangalore Urban | Tal"
description: "Meet Shannath Kumar, Investments at Stride Ventures | Antler VC | SRCC based in Bangalore Urban. AI stack includes claude code, gemini, and notebooklm."
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# Shannath Kumar on Tal

## Headline

Investments at Stride Ventures \| Antler VC \| SRCC

## Location

Bangalore Urban

## AI stack

claude code

gemini

notebooklm

notion

## Work experience

Investment Associate at Stride Ventures, Sep 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Stride Ventures is a venture debt fund with over $600M deployed across Asia\. With presence in India, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, and London, Stride Ventures supports high\-growth companies across diverse sectors\. Portfolio Companies: Bluestone, Ather Energy, Curefoods, Udaan, Zetwerk, Slice, Glance, Refyne, Newme, Sweet Karam Coffee, Drinkprime, Koskii, Supertails, Finnable, Smartcoin

Investment Analyst at Stride Ventures, Jun 2023 \- Sep 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Summer Intern at Antler, Jul 2022 \- Oct 2022 · 4 mos, Antler is a global early\-stage venture capital firm that invests in the defining technology companies of tomorrow\. Founded in Singapore in 2017, Antler is on a mission to fundamentally improve the world by enabling and investing in the world's most exceptional people building the defining companies of tomorrow\. Antler has already invested in and helped build over 400 companies since launch\. Are you building or scaling your startup? Please apply at https://www\.antler\.co/india and we'll get in touch soon\! If you have any queries, feel free to reach out to me at shannath\.kumar@antler\.co

Associate at The 80/20 Consultants, Nov 2021 \- Apr 2022 · 6 mos, • 1 of 10 Associates from a pool of 150\+ applicants from 13 colleges pan\-India with mentors from BCG, Bain & Co\., Lightspeed, BII & the likes • Worked with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, provided recommendation papers to reach a $10T GDP economy by the year 2030

Intern at Invest India, Nov 2021 \- Dec 2021 · 2 mos, • Identified 8 commodities \(accounting for \~61% of the total imports in 2019\-20\) and chalked out an Import Substitution Plan; proposed to build domestic competencies and drafted long\-term actionables • Assessed infrastructural gaps between status quo and desired targets; forecasted the future investment which will impact 2M\+ youths of Northeast India

## Education

B\.com honours, Shri Ram College of Commerce \(SRCC\)

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