Jishnu Bhattacharjee
Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2008 - Current
At Nexus, we partner with exceptional entrepreneurs in the US and India. Our team comprises ex-entrepreneurs who are strong “bottom-up” thinkers and “sleeves rolled up” operators. With decades of experience in building and funding globally leading companies, we manage more than USD 2 billion across funds. Our footprint in world’s two leading markets positions us uniquely with global insights and ability to serve entrepreneurs.
Founding Investor and Board Member
2014
The only complete platform for all things API. We seed funded the company in 2014 and led Series A in 2015.
Postman is a software company that offers a platform for the users to design, develop, test, and organize custom APIs.
Raised $433,000,000.00 from Gokul Rajaram, Battery Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Insight Partners, Sahin Boydas, CRV, Coatue, Girish Mathrubootham, Bond and Junipero Capital.
Founding investor and board member
2012
The enterprise AI platform
H2O.ai is a machine learning platform that builds smart applications.
Raised $251,099,999.00 from Veligera Capital and 2Shares.
Investor and board member
2018
Observe.AI is a conversational intelligence platform for contact centers.
Raised $214,020,000.00 from Next47, Emergent Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund, Scale Venture Partners, Steadview Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Zoom, NGP Capital and Carya Venture Partners.
Founding investor and board member
2022
The enterprise platform for enabling private, secure, and regulation-compliant Gen AI models.
Raised $19,250,000.00 from Nexus Venture Partners, Vojta Jína, Formus Capital, Charu Jangid, Tolga, Soma Capital and Canapi Ventures.
Board Member
2020
Iambic Therapeutics is disrupting the therapeutics landscape with its unique AI-driven drug-discovery platform.
Raised $203,000,000.00 from Illumina Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Alumni Ventures, Tao Capital Partners, Mubadala Capital, Coatue, Nexus Venture Partners, Abingworth, Exor Ventures and Catalio Capital Management.
Investor and Board Member
2011
Data Management as a Service
Investor ( seed and series A)
2017
AI powered sales automation
Apollo.io is a market sales platform that helps accelerate the growth of an organization.
Raised $251,320,000.00 from Sequoia Capital, Tribe Capital, Bain Capital Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners.
Founding investor and Board member
2015
Multi cloud object storage
MinIO offers high-performance, S3 compatible object storage for multi-cloud architectures. Software-defined, cloud-native + 100% opensource.
Raised $126,300,000.00 from General Catalyst, Nexus Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Dell Technologies Capital and SoftBank Vision Fund.
Investor and board member
2020