Nandini Agarwal

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

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.

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.

Analyst

2019 - 2019

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.