Puneeth Meruva

Partner at Trucks Venture Capital · Joined 2019

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Biography

Puneeth Meruva is a Partner at Trucks Venture Capital, the San Francisco seed fund for transportation startups. He interned with Trucks during his final term at MIT, joined full time as an analyst in 2019 after graduating with a BS in electrical engineering and computer science, and was promoted through associate and senior associate roles before being named Partner in May 2023, concurrent with the launch of Trucks Venture Fund 3. Earlier he held safety software internships at Uber, BMW, and Microsoft and conducted perception research in MIT's Distributed Robotics Group and CMU's Biorobotics Lab. He authors the firm's FoT research briefs on transportation topics and writes the Flywheel newsletter on micromobility.

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Career Timeline

2019
Joined Trucks Venture Capital full time as an analyst after graduating from MIT and interning with the firm.
2023
Named Partner at Trucks Venture Capital, concurrent with the launch of Trucks Venture Fund 3.

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Trucks VC - About ↗Trucks VC - Puneeth Meruva Named Partner ↗EVCA - Meet Puneeth Meruva ↗