Anant Vidur Puri is a Bessemer Venture Partners partner who champions their roadmap-driven investing approach in India, spending months mapping sectors and defining evaluation frameworks before backing companies, rather than reacting to inbound deals. He has built a reputation as a marketplace specialist by leading Bessemer's investments in flagship Indian companies like Urban Company, Swiggy, and BigBasket, while developing a specific thesis that India's software talent and AI capabilities will help productise white-collar services into scalable global software companies. Anant Vidur Puri is a Bessemer Venture Partners partner who champions their roadmap-driven investing approach in India, spending months mapping sectors and defining evaluation frameworks before backing companies, rather than reacting to inbound deals. He has built a reputation as a marketplace specialist by leading Bessemer's investments in flagship Indian companies like Urban Company, Swiggy, and BigBasket, while developing a specific thesis that India's software talent and AI capabilities will help productise white-collar services into scalable global software companies.