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Partner at Seedcamp
About Praveen Kumar
In 2015, Praveen Kumar co-led Seedcamp’s first dedicated deep tech fund, not just backing AI startups, but insisting on founder-controlled governance structures that preserved technical autonomy amid Series A pressure. He pioneered the 'pre-seed sprint' model in Berlin and Tallinn, compressing due diligence into 72-hour live engineering reviews where founders demoed prototypes alongside their earliest users, no pitch decks allowed. His insistence on founder-first doesn’t mean hands-off; it means showing up at 3 a.m. for a Latvian SaaS team’s infrastructure meltdown, then helping draft their board charter to cap investor board seats at one. Unlike many European VCs who treat regulatory compliance as a box-ticking exercise, he embedded GDPR and AI Act readiness into Seedcamp’s term sheets years before enforcement, turning legal risk into product discipline. His lens is relentlessly geographic: he maps startup density not by GDP but by open-source contributor velocity per capita, which is why Seedcamp opened its first non-London office in Bucharest, not Paris.
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- “How did your pre-seed sprint model change how you assess technical founders?”
- “What made you push for capped investor board seats in early-stage term sheets?”
- “Why Bucharest over Paris or Berlin for Seedcamp's first expansion?”
- “How do you spot 'regulatory arbitrage' disguised as innovation?”