Kanav Kukreja | Profound

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Kanav's stories span strategic M&A research, seed-stage deal evaluation, and independent market views across agriculture and fintech.

Kanav Kukreja

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Early-Stage Investment Researchers

Running sector research for seed or Series A funds.

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Deep Tech and B2B SaaS Founders

Preparing for a first institutional fundraise.

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Corporate M&A Strategy Professionals

Running sector assessments or target screening for corporate M&A.

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Indian Startup Ecosystem Operators

Building or investing in Indian consumer or fintech startups.

Kanav Kukreja

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Structuring Markets for Investment Decisions

Kanav's core capability is taking a poorly mapped or ambiguous market and building a structure that leads toward a decision, not just a description of the space. He has done this across machine vision at Körber, agriculture markets at Viessmann, and sector evaluation at Inflexor, each time starting with the decision the research needs to support rather than the market label. His method involves breaking the market into technology stacks, end markets, or risk dimensions, building initial hypotheses, triangulating across multiple source types, and updating the structure as evidence comes in rather than forcing research into the original frame. The output is always decision-ready: a clear set of options, a prioritized shortlist, or a set of investment criteria that the team can act on.

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Running Primary Research to Test Market Views

Kanav uses primary research not as a supplement to secondary analysis but as a way to test whether the market story holds up in practice. At Körber, when secondary reports showed machine vision as broadly software-driven and scalable, he spoke with industry professionals and found the reality was more application-specific, integration-heavy, and dependent on long sales cycles. That changed the screening criteria. At Inflexor, he called customers directly in their native language to understand what they actually needed versus what the company believed they needed, and found a disconnect on product roadmap and willingness to pay that changed the deal valuation. His primary research discipline is about finding the operating reality behind the market numbers, the part that public reports consistently miss.

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Owning Deal Evaluation Workstreams

Kanav has owned the analytical workstream across deal evaluation in both venture capital and M&A contexts, running from initial brief through to decision-ready output without a team around him. At Inflexor, he sourced founders, led initial calls, built TAM analyses, mapped competitive landscapes, conducted commercial and customer due diligence, and prepared IC materials across multiple seed and Series A deals. At Körber, he independently drove market structuring, target profiling, and CEO-level presentation for a strategic M&A assessment. His approach is to see each step not in isolation but as part of a progression: an initial founder narrative has to survive progressively deeper questions on market, product, business model, and execution before it becomes an investable case. The output is always structured for the decision-maker: a clear investment memo, a prioritized target list, or a set of open questions that need to be resolved before capital is committed.

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Kanav Kukreja

Career Stories

Körber Machine Vision: Structuring a Market for M&A

At Körber as Group Strategy, M&A and Venture Capital

2026 - 2026

Körber: Supporting a Pharmaceutical Packaging Transaction

At Körber as Group Strategy, M&A and Venture Capital

2026 - 2026

REHAU New Ventures: Building a Portfolio KPI Framework

At REHAU New Ventures as Portfolio Management and Investor Relations

2024 - 2025

Viessmann Family Office: Independent Market View on Agriculture

At Viessmann Generations Group as Family Office Investments

2023 - 2024

Inflexor Ventures: Running Deal Evaluation End to End

At Inflexor Ventures as Venture Capital

2022 - 2022

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