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Does Venture Capital Help You Become A Better Entrepreneur?
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Nandeet Mehta
Founding Venture Partner at SKU'd Ventures
Los Angeles, California
Overview
Nandeet Mehta is a Venture Capitalist with a strong background in entrepreneurship and start-up ventures, currently serving as the Founder & Managing Partner at Prototype Capital. He has invested in a variety of successful companies at the seed stage, such as Carry, Orai, and Aura Health, demonstrating a keen eye for promising opportunities in sectors like FinTech, Consumer Internet, and SaaS.
Work Experience
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.
Prototype Capital is a distributed VC fund investing in obsessive founders building lasting businesses around revolutionary technologies.
Venture Product Partner
2020
Afore Capital is a $124M venture fund that focuses on pre-seed stage exclusively and is based in San Francisco.
Afore Capital is a venture fund that focuses on pre-seed stage exclusively and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Founding Venture Partner
2020
Investing in pre-seed CPG startups
SKU'd Ventures is a pre-seed venture fund focused on 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
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
CEO & Founder - GM + Innovation & Strategy
2020 - 2022
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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
A cpg-focused, house of brands building a series of contemporary brands that cohesively addresses multiple touchpoints of daily life.
Executive & Director
2017 - 2021
Focusing young entrepreneurs on solving problems where governments and private industry have failed
Changemaker
2017 - 2018
Investments
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