Nilesh Trivedi

Principal Investor

2018 - Current

Backed by 470+ LPs comprising of founders, entrepreneurs, operators, business executives and private/public market investors, J-Ventures is an 'LP-Founder centric' VC fund investing in early & growth stages of new companies. Our active-LP foundational venture fund brings the power of this connected & intellectual capital to add real value to the companies we invest in and create a remarkable difference by helping our founders grow and scale to markets quicker. Investor in: WEVO - Wevo Website Optimization Bright Security - DAST/AST Security BeeHero - Precision Pollination as a Service Connie Health - Medicare InsureTech Visby Medical - Handheld PCR Diagnostics MDGo/Sensa Insurance - Automotive InsureTech Hidden Level - Control Tower for Drones Conversa Health - Conversational AI for Healthcare Reframe - Life Insurance + Long Term Care DataRobot - Enterprise AI Cents Software - Vertical SaaS for Laundromats Calmigo - DTC device to manage anxiety disorders Hourly - Workers Comp Insurance & Payroll Veev - Modular Residential Builder AllStar - TikTok meets Twitch for Gamers Futora - Automated Personalized Investments Bites - Professional content for frontline employees GrayMatters Health - Digital Therapeutics for mental disorders Epic Cleantec - Wastewater reuse & treatment SOC-Prime - Threat detection as code platform Vista AI - Autonomous, 1-click MRI Atidot - AI for life insurance & Annuities Joylux - Women's Menopausal Health Digital Solution OneBeat - Adaptive Inventory Management for Retail Descope - Authentication & Identity Management Finout - Next gen cloud cost management Eclypsium - Firmware Security for HW and Supply Chain Nimble - Streamlining Web Data Pipelines Salespeak - AI for B2B Sales Apera AI- Computer Vision for Industrial Robots Bria AI - Responsible & Legal Generative AI Monogoto - Connectivity as a Service RAAAM Technologies - Developers of GCRAM Memory

Investment & Technology Advisory

2018

Advisor

2019

Special Advisor

2020

Advising on late and growth stage impact investments for a $125M Impact Investment Fund.

Founder & Managing Partner

2015 - 2021

Summation is an evergreen, fund-less vehicle investing and advising early stage frontier and core technology companies. We take an active role to help start and build new companies in untapped markets from ground up. With companies ranging from groundbreaking sound tech infrastructure to mobile payments, 3D printing, to food robotics, drones, autonomous vehicles, cyber & cloud security and operating system for connected bikes, these companies have created from zero to more than $360M in aggregated private market value in just the past few years. Investor/Advisor in: - Zen Payroll (now Gusto) - Checkr - Flexport - ToneTag - RevOS/BOLT - Cumulations - SmartOrbis - CloudDefense.io - liwwa.com - Auro (acquired by RideCell) - Chowbotics (acquired by DoorDash) - Skyware - ProtoMake - VendorMach http://www.summation.vc

Head of US Operations/Product Deployment & Customer Onboarding

2017 - 2019

Acquired by ZeroNorth (https://www.ship-technology.com/news/maritime-tech-companies-zeronorth-and-alpha-ori-technologies-merge/). Helped build US operations for Alpha Ori Technologies in Sunnyvale, CA. Recruited product engineers, PM, UX design, developers in the organization. Later on, owned and managed a team in customer success for product deployment, software releases and customer issues.

Fund Advisor

2015 - 2019

Altius Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund targeted to India market for investments in Enterprise SaaS, Business Software, Ecommerce adjacencies, Frontier and Core Technologies and Internet based industries in general.

Limited Partner

2016 - 2019

Motion ! Startup Ecosystems Platform is an innovation platform that delivers strategic services and information, and connects key industry players and growing companies with innovative startup businesses and entrepreneurs throughout the world. An effective platform for the global innovation and startup ecosystem network.

Operating Partner

2016 - 2018

K Fund is a new venture capital firm with $55M under management in it's debut fund launched in October 2016. With an entrepreneur-centric philosophy, K Fund aims to fuel the evolution of the Spanish startup ecosystem by investing in early stage technology companies that has potential to grow in international markets.

Senior Program Manager, Mentor & Business Operations & Strategy Leader

2010 - 2014

Business Strategy & Core operations for the Routing Business Units & Program management role driving Core Routing platforms & Next Generation Routing products feature releases, product team discussions & business management functions. Successfully lead a cross functional program management team of 4+ PMs and support groups responsible for delivering Cisco's next generation core routing and optical routing product lines, CRS-3, NCS6K and NCS2K products. o Program & Project management of multiple products, including both hardware and software features for CRS-3 and NCS6K ranging from Linecards, Optical Cross Connect hardware, Routing and Layer-2/3 software and features. o Liaison and trusted advisor to executive management, including Group General Manager/Vice-President, bringing key business and product updates. Cross-functional areas included, Product Management & Marketing, Engineering, Manufacturing and Supply Chain Operations groups to by discuss, strategize and align deliverables with appropriate resources, product financial and business forecast, portfolio management and product team discussions. o Driving Supply Chain, Hardware and Manufacturing Program Management teams to Project Manage Proto Builds, hardware bring up, procurement * logistics, AVL (Approved Vendor List) supplier relationships, program schedules, Pilots and new product introduction logistics across with Customer Support, Sales, Services , Operations and Manufacturing teams

New Products Incubation and Market Development Leader

2008 - 2010

Market Development role for customer engagements on IPv6 transition and IPv4 runout solutions. I chartered new product development in this space encompassing requirements development, market strategy & product development of Blade Server hosted on Router based platforms to do Network based Carrier grade services such as NAT/PAT translation, Firewall Security and CDN scenarios to offload network traffic.

Customer Escalation and Technical Management Leader

2006 - 2008

Technical Management leader on driving customer issues & escalations to resolution – Lead a team of 6-15 engineers in Routing and Switch infrastructure Software. Worked closely with Cisco partners to expedite problem resolution and manage customer sentiments for high touch accounts such as AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, NTT, SoftBank on critical business impacting issues