Nexus Venture Partners co-founder Naren Gupta passed away aged 73 on Saturday, the venture capital firm said in a statement on Sunday. The IIT and Stanford University alumnus founded Nexus Venture Partners along with Suvir Sujan and Sandeep Singhal in 2006 and had been actively investing in Indian startups for last 15 years. He was based in Menlo Park, California.