Abhishek Sharma

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States20 yrs 3 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in early-stage software and AI investments.
Proven track record in leading funding rounds.
Passionate about product-led growth strategies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a venture capital expert with a focus on software and AI startups.

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Skills

Core Skills

Venture CapitalGo-to-market Strategy

Other Skills

StrategyEntrepreneurshipBusiness DevelopmentManagement ConsultingFinancial ModelingMarket EntryDue DiligenceBusiness PlanningLeadershipBusiness TransformationStrategic PartnershipsNew Business DevelopmentFeasibility StudiesPrivate EquitySaaS

About

I'm a partner at Nexus ($3.2B capital under mgmt.), based in SF and Menlo Park. Nexus helps ambitious founders scale product-first companies, including Firecrawl, Apollo, Avoca, Fingerprint, Gumloop, Postman, Zepto, Giga, Bolt, Tensorwave, Orkes, Ultrahuman, Daloopa, and more. I invest at the inception, seed, and series A stages. I'm passionate about products with mass distribution, fast time-to-setup/value, and a delightful user experience. I love partnering with technical founders. I specialize in helping companies develop GTM based on bottom-up adoption and product-led growth/sales. I work with over a dozen commercial open source and freemium companies. Let's talk if you dream of building a large, enduring software business!

Experience

20 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

9 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Aemon (yc w26)

Investor

Mar 2026 – Present · 1 mo

Multifactor (yc f25)

Investor

Nov 2025 – Present · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Led seed round

Icarus

Seed Investor

Nov 2025 – Present · 5 mos

Firecrawl

Board Member

Jul 2025 – Present · 9 mos

Led Series A

Qfex

Seed Investor

Jun 2025 – Present · 10 mos

Browser use

Seed Investor

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Gumloop

Board Member

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Led Series A

Ultrahuman

Board Member

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

Inception stage investment

Promptql

Board Member

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

Inception stage investment

Orkes

Board Member

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

Led Series A

Giga

Investor

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Led seed investment

Nx

Board Member

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

Co-led Seed and Series A

Openobserve

Board Member

Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs

Co-led Seed and Series A

Zitadel

Board Member

Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs

Led seed and series A

Freehand

Board Member

Feb 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Growthbook

Founding Investor

Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

Led the pre-seed round

Neuron7.ai

Board Member

Aug 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

Co-led Seed and Series A

Fingerprint

Board Member

Aug 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 8 mos

Led three out of four rounds: Seed, A, C

Daloopa

Founding Investor, Board Member

Sep 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

Led pre-seed and seed rounds

Bolt.new

Seed Investor

Jul 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 9 mos

First to commit in the seed round

Sibros

Board Member

Mar 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 1 mo

Led seed and Series A

Imagen technologies

Seed Investor

Jun 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 10 mos

Clover health

Investor

May 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 11 mos

[NASDAQ: CLOV]

Cricket health

Seed Investor

Apr 2016 – Aug 2022 · 6 yrs 4 mos

Merged with InterWell and Fresenius ($2.4B combined merger)

Apollo.io

Board Member

Mar 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 1 mo

Invested in Seed + led Series A

Nexus venture partners

Partner

Jul 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 9 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States

Helping ambitious software & AI builders. Obsessed with distribution, PLG, open source.

StrategyEntrepreneurshipVenture CapitalBusiness DevelopmentGo-to-market Strategy

Quandl

Board Observer

Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 · 3 yrs

Acquired by NASDAQ

Mezi (acquired by american express)

Board Observer

Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs

Ebay

Partnerships

Jan 2015 – Jun 2015 · 5 mos

Partnerships with marketing personalization startups

Booz & company.

Associate

Jul 2009 – Apr 2013 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Helped clients in the US, India, and the Middle East.

Hellointern.com

Cofounder

Jan 2006 – Jan 2012 · 6 yrs

Acquired by Angaros

Various companies

Internships

Jan 2005 – Jan 2014 · 9 yrs

Cue Ball Capital ('14)
Bain Capital ('13)
Institut für Mikrosystemtechnik, Freiburg ('07)
CNBC-TV18 ('06)
Honda-Siel Cars India Ltd ('06)
Yamaha Motors ('05)
Airtel ('05)

Education

Harvard Business School

MBA

Jan 2013 – Jan 2015

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

B.Tech

Jan 2004 – Jan 2009

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