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Varun Jain

Senior Investment Manager, Qualcomm Ventures

Varun is based in San Francisco and invests primarily in consumer and enterprise applications that leverage some combination of sensors, cameras and machine intelligence to re-imagine our daily lives and make them fundamentally more productive. He joined Qualcomm Ventures in 2014 and has since led our early-stage investments in Clearmotion, Cruise Automation (acquired by General Motors), Even Responsible Finance, Flirtey and Navdy.

In 2017, Varun was recognized as one among the global top 20 Rising Stars in the corporate venture industry by Global Corporate Venturing.

Before becoming an investor, Varun gained significant operating experience at Mint, which started in 2007 in partnership with The Wall Street Journal and is today one of the largest and most respected news organizations in Asia. He rose quickly through the ranks to lead business operations for Mint’s key growth initiatives and successfully launched a series of consumer and enterprise products across India and Singapore.

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