Nikhil Vora
Founder & CEO @ Sixth Sense Ventures
Mumbai, India
Nikhil Vora is a Series A investor at Sixth Sense Ventures in Mumbai focused on Food and Beverage and E-Commerce. Nikhil Vora is the Founder and CEO of Sixth Sense Ventures; India's first consumer centric domestic venture fund. Nikhil was earlier the Managing Director / Head of Research at IDFC Securities, and has been regarded as one of the strongest analytical minds in the country. The core of Sixth Sense lies in the belief that the next big waveof dysfunctional growth will be led by players who are going to be driven by completely different skill sets / capabilities and not necessarily capital. Sixth Sense vision is to identify and invest a ‘smart ass’ team with a ‘kick ass’ product in a ‘big ass’ market! Nikhil has been invited by the “Nestle Global Consumer Board” and the “Regional CFO forum” to give a presentation on the potential roadmap for Nestle India. He has also evolved a strategic road-map for Unilever, Aditya Birla Group, Marico, Godrej, NIIT, Navneet etc. His research has been accredited by some of the largest global funds like Capital, Fidelity, Alliance Bernstein, Putnam, Schroder’s etc. In the Asia Money polls 2012, Nikhil was voted as India’s No.1 analyst. He also has the rare distinction of being voted Asia’s Best Analyst by the Wall Street Journal in the same year. Along with advising clients, he also has been a venture capital investor and on the board of a few of his investee companies. Some of the earlier Venture Investments made by Nikhil Vora includes – One97 (PayTm), Vini Cosmetics (Fogg), Parag Milk (Go), Kangaroo Kids Education, BVG India, Technology Frontiers, Mannash Lifestyle (www.purplle.com), Infinite Analytics, Reznext Solutions, Intellisys Technologies, Rainmaker Legal, RoomsTonight etc.
- Total investments:
- 86
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 62%
Last updated:
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Industries Nikhil Vora invests in
Stages Nikhil Vora invests in
Countries Nikhil Vora invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $314k–$7M
- Series A
- $1.5M–$11M
- Series B
- $4.9M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Food and Beverage 13 (15%)
- E-Commerce 12 (14%)
- Health Care 7 (8%)
- Retail 6 (7%)
- Manufacturing 6 (7%)
Stage
- Series A 25 (29%)
- Seed 16 (19%)
- Series B 7 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (7%)
- Funding Round 5 (6%)
Country
- India 55 (64%)
- United States 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Bombay Shaving Company
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Bombay Shaving Company is a consumer goods company that focuses on developing a range of shave care, beard care, and skincare products. It specializes in men's grooming, personal care, shaving, beard grooming, skincare, and handmade soaps. Bombay Shaving Company was founded in 2015 and is based in New Delhi, Delhi, India. | Secondary Market / Nov 12, 2025 | |
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Bombay Shaving Company
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Bombay Shaving Company is a consumer goods company that focuses on developing a range of shave care, beard care, and skincare products. It specializes in men's grooming, personal care, shaving, beard grooming, skincare, and handmade soaps. Bombay Shaving Company was founded in 2015 and is based in New Delhi, Delhi, India. | $15.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 12, 2025 | |
Eekifoods
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Eekifoods develops a unique and proprietary vegetable growing technology, which allows it to produce completely residue-free, Indian and exotic vegetables and sell them profitably at near-market prices. | $7M / Series A / Jul 01, 2025 | |
Cremeitalia
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Cremeitalia provides premium dairy products and a range of delicious cheeses made from imported European milk. | $2.1M / Series A / Feb 08, 2025 | |
RAS Luxury Oils
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RAS Luxury Oils provides natural and organic skincare products. | $5M / Series A / Jan 08, 2025 | |
Ginglani Distillers
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Ginglani Distillers operates as a whisky startup. Ginglani Distillers is the maker of Black Bow whisky. | $1.5M / Series A / Mar 26, 2024 | |
Pushp Brand
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Pushp Brand sells a range of CTC spices, other pure spices and blended spices and value added items such as pachan cool masala, lemon cool masala and Jaljira. | $12.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 28, 2023 | |
Go Zero
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Go Zero is an innovative ice cream company dedicated to provide deliciousness without guilt. | $1M / Seed / Aug 08, 2023 | |
Meolaa
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The Meolaa platform will be powered by an innovative, experience-driven approach that will bridge the gap between sustainability and lifestyle. | $165K / Pre-Seed / Apr 18, 2023 | |
Design Cafe
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Design Cafe is an award-winning Home Interior Design firm based in Bengaluru with a focus on the Interior Residential segment. Design Cafe provides end-to-end home interiors and has a presence in Bengaluru, Mumbai and Hyderabad. Their latest online venture brings to you the best designs, showcases them online and creates easy processes to customizethem for free. The DC team firmly believes that a well-designed home makes space for everything that's part of your life and that good design has the power to change the way you live, work and play. They are working to ensure that this change should be accessible to everyone, irrespective of their project's size, budget or location. | $4.9M / Series B / Mar 29, 2023 | |
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Co-Investors
About Sixth Sense Ventures
Sixth Sense Ventures is India’s first domestic consumer centric venture fund, founded by Nikhil Vora (Ex-Managing Director of IDFC Securities) who is regarded as one of the strongest analytical minds in the country. Sixth Sense has a formidable founding team that includes one of the most reputed corporate CEOs of a large domestic consumer company.Our core team has cumulative experience of over 70 years in the wider consumer domain.
Sixth Sense Ventures Contacts
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Nikhil Vora
Founder & CEO
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Nimisha Nagarsekar
Partner Investments, CFO
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Swati Nangalia Mehra
Founding Partner
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FAQ
What does Nikhil Vora invest in?
Nikhil Vora invests primarily in Food and Beverage, E-Commerce and Health Care startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 86 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Nikhil Vora's check size?
Nikhil Vora typically joins rounds of $314k–$7M at Seed, $1.5M–$11M at Series A and $4.9M–$50M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Nikhil Vora participates in.
When did Nikhil Vora last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Nikhil Vora closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 86 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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