Meet Sumer Juneja, who could be SoftBank's country head in India

A venture capitalist, Juneja has successfully led investments in over half a dozen companies at Norwest Venture Partners and exited three

Japanese investment giant SoftBank has roped in Norwest Venture Partners’ Sumer Juneja as its country head for India, according to reports in the Indian media. Juneja will lead SoftBank’s next set of bets in India into companies such as Delhivery, FirstCry and Grofers though there’s no official word from SoftBank yet. 

An investment banker-turned-VC, Juneja’s most famous investment has been food-tech aggregator Swiggy in which Norwest invested in 2015. He has been on the board of Swiggy from its early days and has helped its founders scale and raise several rounds of funding from investors. 

In India since 2009, Juneja