Nagraj Kashyap is co-founder and General Partner of Touring Capital, a San Francisco-based venture firm that closed a $330 million Fund I in September 2025 focused on AI-powered SaaS companies at the early-growth stage. He brings 20+ years of venture capital experience, having previously founded Qualcomm Ventures (2003), launched M12 (Microsoft's venture arm, 2016), and served as Managing Partner at SoftBank Vision Fund II. His portfolio includes breakout companies such as Zoom, Waze (10x return, acquired by Google), Xiaomi, Cloudflare, Fitbit, Kahoot!, Livongo, and Outreach.
Samir Kumar is Co-Founder and General Partner at Touring Capital, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that closed its oversubscribed $330 million Fund I in September 2025 to back AI-driven software companies approaching product-market fit. Before co-founding Touring Capital in 2023 with Nagraj Kashyap and Priya Saiprasad, Samir spent years at Microsoft's M12 venture fund investing in AI, deep tech, and hardware-enabled software, and prior to that held senior roles at Qualcomm's corporate R&D division, Samsung, and Palm. A Cornell-trained mechanical engineer who grew up in New York after being born in New Delhi, Samir brings a rare blend of hands-on engineering, product management, and institutional investing experience to backing the next wave of AI-powered enterprise companies.