Nandini Agarwal
Principal at ff Investor
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2024 - Current
ff Venture Capital is a venture capital firm that specializes in providing seed-stage and early-stage funding to technology companies. Headquartered in New York City. Investing in Pre Seed and Seed startups across industries including SaaS and Deeptech, building in verticals such as fintech, insurtech, drones, robotics, and applied AI. Managing an active global portfolio of 50+ active investments across stages and sectors.
Senior Associate
2023 - 2024
Associate
2022 - 2023
ff Venture Capital is a technology venture capital firm that invests in cybersecurity, AI, machine learning, drones, and cloud software.
Investment Analyst
2021 - 2022
Florida Funders is a hybrid of a venture capital fund and an angel investor network that discovers, funds, and builds early-stage technology companies in Florida and beyond. Invested in Pre Seed to Series A startups across industries including B2B SaaS and Consumer, building in verticals such as cybersecurity, edtech, fintech, healthtech, future of work, gaming, and e-sports.
Florida Funders is a hybrid of a venture capital fund and angel investor syndication platform.
Founder
2020 - 2021
Founded a pro bono consulting service during Covid-19. Recruited 15+ undergraduate students across disciplines, to help nonprofits including SOF Missions and Lighthouse for the Blind with project-based deliverables.
Founder/CEO
2019 - 2021
Founded a startup in college to build medical devices using climate-friendly materials. Recruited undergraduate and graduate engineering and biomedical sciences students to help gaps in my skillset. We won local pitch competitions and were supported by the Clinton Global Initiative University and the UN Millennium Fellowship. Samagreen is revolutionizing single-use medical devices by making them biodegradable and more patient-friendly. There will be a monumental impact on the environment, city waste management systems and patient needs with the launch of these products in the bio-engineering industry.
Assurance Intern
2020 - 2020
- Supported the engagement team by completing low risk test of controls, substantive testing and associated work papers - Utilized internal technological tools to increasing team's efficiency in performing financial tie-outs
Summer Analyst
2019 - 2019
Finance, Controllers Division, Mortgages Desk - Executed price verification procedures daily to ensure appropriate valuation and accurate P&L of the firm's inventory and trading activities of asset-backed securities.
Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Analyst
2019 - 2019
Avatar Property and Casualty Insurance offers comprehensive insurance coverage across the state.
Intern
2018 - 2018
CSR is India's leading women's rights organization. - Helped provide emotional and legal counseling to victims of gender-based violence - Conducted ethnographic field research on the financial freedom of female migrant workers and residents in rural suburbs around Delhi - Presented a project to conduct financial literacy bootcamps using credit unions and banks as host institutions - Aided in writing RFPs and Grant applications
Instructor
2017 - 2017
As part of the Muma Analytics Team at USF, I aided Dr. Clinton Daniel in the duties associated with the Dept. of Labor TechHire Grant.