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Preetish Nijhawan

Managing Partner at Cervin

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Preetish Nijhawan is the Managing Partner at Cervin in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a strong background in mergers and acquisitions, corporate development, and strategic partnerships. Notable achievements include investments in companies like ArmorCode and FireCompass, contributing to their successful Series B and Series A funding rounds, respectively.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Partner

    2010 - Current

Cervin Ventures is an early-stage VC focused on B2B technology. We work with founders to build good startups into great companies.

  • Investor and Member of the Board of Directors

    2022

FireCompass is a cybersecurity company that offers a Saas platform for Continuous Automated Red Teaming and Attack Surface Management.

Raised $7,000,000.00 from Bharat Innovation Fund, Cervin Ventures and Athera Venture Partners.

  • Investor and Member of the Board of Directors

    2021

ArmorCode offers an AppSecOps platform that reduces application exposure and risk for customers.

Raised $65,000,000.00 from Sierra Ventures, Ballistic Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, NGP Capital and Cervin Ventures.

  • Member of the Governing Council

    2021

  • Investor and Member of the Board of Directors

    2019

Bungee Tech places the power of ready-to-use competitive intelligence in the hands of any business through high-quality data and analytics.

Raised $3,000,000.00 from Cervin Ventures, NextGen Venture Partners, UpVentures Capital and SkyDeck Berkeley.

  • Chairperson and Trustee

    2023

  • Investor and Member of the Board of Directors

    2018

  • Investor and Member of the Board of Directors

    2017

Zight is a visual work communication tool for organizations to easily create, upload, and manage visual content.

Raised $19,100,000.00 from Peter Kazanjy, Grayhawk Capital, Peninsula Ventures, New Ground Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Forward Venture Capital, Nordic Eye Venture Capital, Kickstart, Derek Andersen and Cervin Ventures.

  • Investor and Member of the Board of Directors

    2017

Dark is holistic programming language, editor, and hosted infrastructure.

Raised $3,500,000.00 from Correlation Ventures, DCVC, XFactor Ventures, Cervin Ventures, NextView Ventures, Nitesh Banta, Script Capital, Backstage Capital, boldstart ventures and Promus Ventures.

  • Investor and Member of Board of Directors

    2017

Catch+Release streamlines sourcing/licensing online content for ads, from discovery to legal clearance.

Raised $31,279,994.00 from Roller Labs Ventures.

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