Abhishek Sharma

Abhishek Sharma has had a long and varied career in venture capital. In 2015, they joined Nexus Venture Partners as Managing Director, a 15-year-old early-stage VC firm with $2B in management. In 2016, they became a Board Director of Apollo.io, a company that is democratizing go-to-market. Abhishek then invested in seed and led series A. In 2017, they became a Board Director of TileDB, Inc., a company that provides a universal database to securely manage all data assets. Abhishek led pre-seed and seed. In 2019, they became a Board Director of Sibros, a company that enables connectivity into vehicles. Abhishek led seed and series A. Abhishek also became a Board Director of Daloopa, a company that supercharges financial models, powered by AI. Abhishek led pre-seed and seed. In 2020, they became a Board Director of Fingerprint, a company that empowers developers to stop online fraud. Abhishek led seed and series A. In 2021, they became a Board Director of Neuron7.ai, an AI-powered service intelligence to help customer and field service orgs diagnose and resolve issues at scale. Abhishek led seed and series A. In 2022, they became an Investor and Board Observer of Nx, a next-generation build system with first-class monorepo support. Abhishek co-led seed. Abhishek also became a Board Director of Hirefly, a modern AI-powered candidate sourcing engine. Abhishek led seed. Lastly, in 2021, they became an Investor of GrowthBook, a modern feature flagging and experimentation platform (open source). Abhishek led pre-seed.

Abhishek Sharma attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay from 2004 to 2009, where they earned a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering and an M.Tech in CAD & Automation. Abhishek then attended Harvard Business School from 2013 to 2015, where they earned a Master of Business Administration.