Abhishek is an experienced anchor partner and advisor for ambitious entrepreneurs who dream of building very large, enduring software businesses.
An engineer by training, Abhishek loves partnering with technical founders. He specializes in helping companies develop GTM engine based on bottom-up adoption and product-led growth/sales. Abhishek works with almost a dozen commercial open source and freemium companies.
His investments include Apollo.io, Fingerprint, Nx, Orkes, Sibros, Neuron7.ai, GrowthBook, Daloopa, TileDB, Pando, Hirefly, AskNicely, Imagen, StackBlitz, Zitadel, Clover Health (NASDAQ: CLOV), and Mezi (acquired by AmEx).
Abhishek was a founder before joining Nexus; he co-founded HelloIntern.com. Most recently, he worked at eBay on partnerships with marketing technology startups. Previously, Abhishek worked at the global strategy consulting firm Booz & Company, advising companies in the U.S., India, and the Middle East.
Abhishek holds a Master’s and Bachelor’s in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay and an MBA from Harvard Business School.