Two-year-old startup SqueezeBits recently raised a $2 million pre-Series A round from investors including Kakao Ventures, Samsung Next and Posco Venture Capital.
CEO Harrison Chase confirmed a $20 million funding round led by Sequoia and said his one-year-old startup already had a waitlist of 80,000 for its new tools.
Kumar is also the co-founder of AI4Bharat, pioneering Indian language AI application and PadhAI, which provides deep and affordable online learning to students.
Crux is backed by industry veterans in product & technology like Tej Redkar (CPTO - SumoLogic), Karthik Ramamoorthy (SVP, Products & GM - Zuora), Aayush Phumbra (Co-founder - Chegg), Krishna Mehra (Director of Engineering - Meta) among others.