Pavan Nigam

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.

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.

Advisory Board Member

2012

Advisory Board Member

2014

Mentor

2013

Member

2006

The Band of Angels is Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization.

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.