Nikhil Shah

Founder of Polyhedron

Founder
2022 - Current
Consultancy working at the intersection of culture, community, technology & social impact, taking on selective projects with companies that are motivated to create cultural or social good.

Angel Investor
2018
Angel investor in 40+ brilliant startups, with a focus on wellbeing, consumer internet, D2C, the creative industries and social impact. Often investing as a member of Ventures Together (European founder/operator syndicate) and Alma Angels (female founder focused syndicate). Portfolio companies include Fiit (#1 fitness app), The Lowdown (women’s reproductive health), Flown (deep work), Mojo (men’s sexual wellbeing), Heights (braincare), Spoke (mindfulness app), Neo Kuma (psychedelics fund), Gwella (functional mushrooms), Clerkenwell Health (clinical research), Encore (live music marketplace), School of SOS (dance platform), Wednesday’s Domaine (non-alcoholic wine), Something&Nothing (seltzers), Ruka (hair products for black women), Field (large scale energy storage), Climate X (climate risk data & analytics), FairHQ (DEI platform), Code First Girls (coding school), Pawprint (b2b climate change platform).

Board Advisor
2020
Co-founder
2008 - 2020
Along with a team of excellent cofounders and colleagues, we have grown Mixcloud to reach 20M listeners a month, with 2M creators on the platform. After 9 years of bootstrapped, organic growth, we went on to raise $15M from leading investors including WndrCo. We are focused on building a suite of tools to help creators express themselves, build community and monetize.

Board Advisor
2018
Board Advisor to The Qube – a home for London’s most inspired creators to prosper, with 60+ purpose-built studios across 3 sites for music, podcast, video & photography. An entirely new proposition bringing creators across disciplines together under one roof to share ideas, inspire each other, and find their flow.

Pledger
2017
Proud member of Founders Pledge - a global community of entrepreneurs finding and funding solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.

Director of Digital & Music
2023 - 2024
Building amazing products at the intersection of technology and creativity, helping people connect to their creativity, the people around them and the moment. Working on new categories (Music and Digital).

Founder
2006 - 2023
Record label and clubnight, releasing and promoting forward thinking electronic music; London, Berlin and beyond.

Board Advisor
2020 - 2022
Supported the incredible, mission driven team at SPOKE as a Board Advisor. SPOKE personalises mindfulness and self-therapy through music. Unlike other mindfulness apps, SPOKE transcends current mental health management practices by combining personalised music, self-therapy and mindfulness techniques into an experience that is culturally relevant to 18-25s (men especially), a demographic most in need and missed by current digital mental health products.

Brand Consultant
2006 - 2008
Strategic brand consultancy working across strategy, branding, innovation and consumer insight projects for clients like Sky, Sony, Pizza Express, Unilever and more. Worked on global segmentation studies using SPSS, innovation sprints, brand (re)positioning and customer closeness projects. Also key member of 3 person Trends team.

Ents Manager
2005 - 2006
Leading a team of 25 people I organised & promoted 3-4 weekly club events and numerous special events (including the Freshers and end of year events), as well as providing support to college entertainment officers for their own programs.