Health tracking app
A personal health PWA I built to log my own data and reason over it — a Next.js front end, a Python API, and Claude doing the heavy lifting on insights.
Anant Vidur Puri
Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, Bangalore — backing internet marketplaces, India SaaS, and AI.
I spend my days backing founders building India's next generation of marketplaces, SaaS, and AI companies. This is where I keep my portfolio, my writing, and the best ways to reach me.
About
Hello.
I'm Anant. I'm a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, based in our Bangalore office, where I focus on internet marketplaces and India SaaS — with a growing pull toward AI, ML, and cloud. I've had the privilege of backing companies like Swiggy, Urban Company, Cashify, Leena AI, and Entropik.
Before Bessemer I was at the Boston Consulting Group, working with financial and IT-services clients across India and North America. I studied Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi — where I got hooked on computer and machine vision — and did my MBA at Harvard Business School.
Away from work, you'll usually find me deep in fantasy fiction and mythology — Indian, Greek, Roman, Norse — on a tennis court, or traveling somewhere with a bit of history to it.
“Build a business that puts your customers first, and you'll build a business that lasts.”
If you're building in India — or building for it from anywhere — I'd love to hear from you.
Selected projects
Things I've built
Chitragupta
An AI knowledge companion for India’s consumer-tech and AI landscape. A retrieval-augmented chatbot built on Claude — it crawls and ingests sources into a vector store, answers with guardrails, and speaks back in multiple Indian languages.
Building experiments
A rolling set of small things I’m tinkering with on nights and weekends. Replace this with whatever you want to show, or split it into individual entries.
Investing
Companies I've backed
A few from my portfolio at Bessemer Venture Partners.
Writing
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Connect
Find me online
The fastest ways to reach me or follow along.