Nakul Mandan
Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
San Francisco, United States
Nakul Mandan is a Series B investor at Lightspeed Venture Partners in San Francisco focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Founder, Audacious Ventures. Previously a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners.Early stage investor in: People.ai, WorkOS, Multiverse, Gainsight, Higo.io, Curious Cardinals, Vartana, BuildingConnected, Superpeer. Previously involved with investments in Marketo (NASDAQ: MKTO, acquired for $1.7b), Intacct (Acquired for $850m), Blue Jeans Network,6Sense, HackerRank, and Yesware.I look for ambitious and hungry product founders targeting extremely large markets. I believe hunger and ambition are more important ingredients of success than experience.
- Total investments:
- 39
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 41%
Last updated:
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Industries Nakul Mandan invests in
Stages Nakul Mandan invests in
Countries Nakul Mandan invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (18%)
- Enterprise Software 4 (10%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (10%)
- SaaS 3 (8%)
- Human Resources 3 (8%)
Stage
- Series B 10 (26%)
- Series A 7 (18%)
- Series C 7 (18%)
- Seed 5 (13%)
- Series D 5 (13%)
Country
- United States 14 (36%)
- United Kingdom 2 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Multiverse is a tech startup that seeks to provide an alternative to university training. Multiverse ensures young people have access to the best career-focused apprenticeships on offer.Multiverse empowers and supports people to create their own realities as they journey through a fulfilling career. Multiverse is a true alternative to a one-trackuniversity route and often uninspiring corporate training. | $70M / Series E / May 15, 2026 | ||
| Tezi is building an Autonomous AI trained by top hiring managers and recruiters to lead the end-to-end hiring process. It proactively sources, screens applications, schedules interviews, collects scorecards, and never drops the ball. | $9M / Seed / Jul 31, 2024 | ||
| Jamix is your AI assistant for work. We connect with your company's apps, data, and APIs. This enables you to search across your apps, chat with your data, and automate daily tasks. We take your data security and privacy seriously, and never train models using your data. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Feb 21, 2024 | ||
| Vartana offers payment flexibility, captures signatures, and closes deals faster. Simplify how sales reps close deals with Vartana’s all-in-one financing platform that helps buyers maximize their purchasing power and finance teams stay agile with unlocked cash flow. Vartana was established in 2020 by Kush Kella in San Francisco, California. | $20M / Series B / May 31, 2023 | ||
| Multiverse is a tech startup that seeks to provide an alternative to university training. Multiverse ensures young people have access to the best career-focused apprenticeships on offer.Multiverse empowers and supports people to create their own realities as they journey through a fulfilling career. Multiverse is a true alternative to a one-trackuniversity route and often uninspiring corporate training. | $220M / Series D / Jun 08, 2022 | ||
| Multiverse is a tech startup that seeks to provide an alternative to university training. Multiverse ensures young people have access to the best career-focused apprenticeships on offer.Multiverse empowers and supports people to create their own realities as they journey through a fulfilling career. Multiverse is a true alternative to a one-trackuniversity route and often uninspiring corporate training. | $220M / Series D / Jun 08, 2022 | ||
| Vartana offers payment flexibility, captures signatures, and closes deals faster. Simplify how sales reps close deals with Vartana’s all-in-one financing platform that helps buyers maximize their purchasing power and finance teams stay agile with unlocked cash flow. Vartana was established in 2020 by Kush Kella in San Francisco, California. | $7M / Seed / Jan 20, 2022 | ||
| Multiverse is a tech startup that seeks to provide an alternative to university training. Multiverse ensures young people have access to the best career-focused apprenticeships on offer.Multiverse empowers and supports people to create their own realities as they journey through a fulfilling career. Multiverse is a true alternative to a one-trackuniversity route and often uninspiring corporate training. | $130M / Series C / Sep 28, 2021 | ||
| Multiverse is a tech startup that seeks to provide an alternative to university training. Multiverse ensures young people have access to the best career-focused apprenticeships on offer.Multiverse empowers and supports people to create their own realities as they journey through a fulfilling career. Multiverse is a true alternative to a one-trackuniversity route and often uninspiring corporate training. | $130M / Series C / Sep 28, 2021 | ||
| People.ai is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform for enterprise revenue.People.ai helps sales, marketing, and customer success teams uncover every revenue opportunity from every customer, by capturing all customer contacts, activity and engagement to drive actionable insights across all revenue teams.People.ai empowers sales leaders to bemore effective at managing their teams and growing revenue by giving them a complete picture of sales activities and leveraging AI to deliver sales performance analytics, personalized coaching, one-on-one feedback, and pipeline reviews.The People.ai platform identifies and targets the buying group, and gives marketers a clear visualization of whom sales has spoken with, and which campaign has been successful in each opportunity. Using this information, marketers are able to build personas and deal models in order to better target their marketing efforts and get better campaign ROI.Customer success and services teams use People.ai to ensure they are engaging with the right people when the customer is handed off to them, but more importantly, these post-sales teams are constantly looking to align their effort and activities with the right opportunities and customers, tracking the true cost to support each customer. | $100M / Series D / Aug 11, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies. Lightspeed Venture Partners invests in various sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social.
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Michael Mignano
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What does Nakul Mandan invest in?
Nakul Mandan invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 39 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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