Nandeet Mehta

Founder & Managing Partner

2018 - Current

We believe in getting down in the trenches and being there right alongside the most ambitious founders in the world as together, we fund and found lasting 100-year businesses. Prototype Capital is a pre-seed venture capital fund with 72+ founder scouts around the nation and our companies collectively are worth $2B+. Co-investors include First Round Capital, ICONIQ, Addition, Menlo Ventures, Amplify Partners, General Catalyst, Next Gen Venture Partners, Afore Capital, Slack, Y Combinator, NFX, Cowboy Ventures, Primary VC, and Comcast Ventures. Select Investments: - Hightouch: Invested in Pre-seed in May 2019. Raised Series B from ICONIQ - Faze Clan: Invested Pre-seed in 2018. They're now public $FAZE - Ghost Robotics: Invested in Pre-seed in April 2018. Autonomous, ground-based quadruped robots. Being acquired at $400M Valuation - Pylon: Invested in series A July 2024. Scale Customer Communication on Slack. Raised from General Catalyst. - XSET: Invested in Seed in June 2022. xset.com (personal investment). - Waffle Insurance: Invested at Seed in March 2022. buildingmachines.com (invested via SMV). - Healthtracka: Invested at Seed in March 2022. (invested via SMV). - AON3D: Invested Seed in June 2018. SineWave lead a $11.5m Series A. aon3d.com. - Kiwi bot: Invested at pre-seed in June 2018. Last-mile delivery for food delivery. kiwibot.com. - Aura Health: Invested in May 2018. - theCut: Invested in pre-seed in 2018. Marketplace to get find a barber (thecut.co) - CopyCat: Invested in pre-seed in 2018. www.copycat.dev. - Donut Media: Invested in seed in 2019. Acquired by Recurrent. - Dandy: Invested in Pre-seed in April 2019 and exited in Sept 2020. getdandy.com.

Venture Product Partner

2020

Afore Capital is a $124M venture fund that focuses on pre-seed stage exclusively and is based in San Francisco.

Founding Venture Partner

2020

Investing in pre-seed CPG startups

Venture Scout

2020

Grishin Robotics is a venture capital firm that invests from seed to late stage in the smart hardware, consumer, robotics, and internet of things sectors. The firm was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. https://www.grishinrobotics.com/

Contributing Writer

2016

https://techcrunch.com/author/nandeet-mehta/

Portfolio Capital Manager (North America)

2021 - 2024

Portfolio Capital Lead

2021 - 2024

CEO & Founder - GM + Innovation & Strategy

2020 - 2022

The bug killer you're not afraid of. ❌🐜 Reinventing home pest control using plant-powered formulations with no known resistance & zero VOCs.

Founder

2017 - 2022

Modern, natural science | Nature knows best -Society www.societyproducts.co -EXO www.sprayexo.com • Coca-Cola Commercialization Program Atlanta BridgeCommunity Cohort 2 • Plug and Play Accelerator Food & Beverage Batch 2 • TERRA by Rabobank + RocketSpace Food & AgTech Accelerator

Executive & Director

2017 - 2021

Focusing young entrepreneurs on solving problems where governments and private industry have failed

Changemaker

2017 - 2018