Nikheel Kamble

Partner

2024 - Current

$10Mn Micro VC Fund

Principal

2020 - 2024

Sector Agnostic, Seed, pre-seed investments. Portfolio - Claimbuddy (Follow-on by Chiratae, Rebright, BIF) Signoz.io (Follow-on by Signalfire, Uncorrelated Ventures, Tom-Preston Werner) Reevoy (Follow-on by 9Unicorns, Better) Businessonbot (YC) SBNRI (Follow-on by Quona, First Port Capital, Avaana) Carrierconnects.com (100xvc) ElectricPe (Follow-on by Blume, Micelio, Green Frontier Capital) GoSats.io (Accel, Draper Dragon, Y Combinator, Soma Capital) Airmeet Baja app Accacia (Follow-on by BCapital, Illuminate Finance, Accel) Depo24 (BeeNext, Sparrow) BlueCopa (Follow-on by Blume, Dallas VC, VCats) ShowroomB2B (Follow-on by Jungle, Accion) Xhipment (Titan, Better) Nected (Follow-on by 3 State ventures, Endurance Capital) Zumen (Accel, 3One4, Veda) Binocs (Beenext, Arkam, Accel, Blume, Premji Invest) Dhiwise (Accel, Together) Sybill (Follow-on by Greycroft, Neotribe, Powerhouse Ventures) SuperAPI OfScale (Matrix, Firstcheque) CtrlB.ai Intemo.tech Segmind (Allin Capital, WEH Ventures, 100xentrepreneur, Paradigm Shift Capital)

Nominee Director

2018 - 2020

Indigenous manufacturing of Airspring parts. Supplying to major automotive companies as well as locomotives.

Investment Principal (West Bengal Fund and Textiles Fund)

2017 - 2020

Fund raising for New Horizons Fund, Ubharte Sitare Fund WB & Tex Fund: Deal sourcing, Negotiating the deal, documentation, post deal monitoring, Exits.

Online Tutor

2018 - 2019

English tutor to bunch of awesome and curious kids.

Associate

2015 - 2017

Artha Venture Partners has grown over the past three years to include around 40 startups in its portfolio - OYO rooms, Exotel, BabyChakra, Inventure... to name a few. As an Associate I was responsible for scouting new investments, its due diligence, as well as tracking the current portfolio, since an investment is only as good as the exit it gets you. A steep change in my learning curve, everyday presents a new challenge, which makes it more and more interesting as I mature in this role. Grew company's investment portfolio from 35 investments in early stage startups to 50+ investments till the end of my tenure. Driving the investment team, opened up several non-conventional channels for investment deal-flow (from India to Israel and US; from IB's and angel Networks to Industry Experts). Skilled at evaluating new technologies, its merits, and feasibility of the same in developing countries. check us out ---> www.artha.ventures

Investment Analyst

2015 - 2015

Manager

2014 - 2014

Rendering Financial Planning and Investment portfolio management services to HNI Clientele across multiple asset classes and end-to-end banking solutions Provide end-to-end Business Banking advisory services such as Working Capital finance, Term loans, Currency hedging (booking forwards), etc to Elite accounts.

Relationship Manager

2012 - 2013

Rendering Financial Planning and Investment portfolio management services to HNI Clientele across multiple asset classes and end-to-end banking solutions Provide end-to-end Business Banking advisory services such as Working Capital finance, Term loans, Currency hedging (booking forwards), etc to Elite accounts.

Internship

2011 - 2012

Performing Financial risk modelling in MSExcel using Monte-Carlo simulation on historical data of prices of raw materials for automobile industry

Summer Internship Trainee

2011 - 2011

Responsibilities: Analysis of funds of Quantum Mutual Funds vis-à-vis funds of competitors Analysis Of Mutual Funds Industry Structuring and Implementation of Corporate Systematic Investment Plan

Production Engineering Executive

2008 - 2010

Responsibilities: Supervision of 'Tool Room' to meet daily jobs and give optimized solutions Designing of Jigs and Fixtures and procurement of the same Plant Engineering - Procurement and Commissioning of new machines