Pavan Nigam
Founding Partner at Inspovation Ventures
Los Altos, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2011 - Current
Angel investment group working with excellent teams with innovative ideas in building great companies. Recent investments include Appurify (acquired by Google), Firebase (acquired by Google), Swell (acquired by Apple), Flutter (acquired by Google), Vocalnet (acquired by Jive), Credibase, Opsclarity, Skyline Labs, Mediaspike, Learnup, Verbling, Shopsocially, Flipora, Benu and Reflexion.
We provide advice and funding to early stage entrepreneurs
Co-founder
1995
The largest ehealth company in the world. Co-founded in 1996 with Jim Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics & Netscape Communications, During my tenure, led the company’s transformation from a concept to the worlds largest e-health company approaching a billion dollars in annual revenues, over eight thousand employees and several billion in market capitalization. The company and my role was extensively profiled in the bestseller, The New New Thing, by Michael Lewis. The company later split into two independent entities: the consumer offering became WebMD (NASDAQ:WBMD) and the enterprise offering became Emdeon (was public, but recently privatized) - both are multi-billion dollar companies.
WebMD is a healthcare center that offers mental health, pain management, and breast cancer services.
Advisory Board Member
2012
Zinrelo brings you the world’s best loyalty rewards and referral programs.
Raised $2,050,000.00 from Lighter Capital.
Advisory Board Member
2014
Mentor
2013
Member
2006
The Band of Angels is Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization.
Band of Angels is an investment firm that offers financial and advisory services to start-up companies.
Member - Board of Visitors (CS)
2006
The Board serves in an advisory capacity to help the Department identify needs, make future plans and address challenges. Fostering greater communication and collaboration, the Board forms a vital bridge between past and present students, between faculty and alumni, and between the University and the larger communities of state, region, and nation in an interconnected, globalized world.
Founder
2009
Group of founders, CXOs, VCs and service providers to the entrepreneurial ecosystem who are also alumni of the University of Wisconsin - Madison
Advisory Board Chairman
2006
A soccer and leadership camp run by local high school students for the underprivileged kids in the Bay Area
Board Member
2010
Mountain View Police Activities League's (MVPAL) mission is to foster mutual understanding between youth and police officers through a non-confrontational setting and, in this way, divert them away from gangs and criminal activity. To accomplish this goal, MVPAL offers a wide variety of recreational and leadership opportunities to kids between the ages of 5 and 18.