# Nitin Pachisia

> Nitin Pachisia is a seed investor at Unshackled Ventures backing Fashion and Shopping. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Unshackled Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unshackled-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/npachisia
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/npachisia
- Website: https://x.com/npachisia

Nitin Pachisia is a seed investor at Unshackled Ventures in San Francisco focused on Fashion and Shopping. Nitin is a founding partner of Unshackled Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund for immigrant founded startups in the U.S. The fund has led marquee investments in driverless trucking, AI for water management, edge computing and emotional intelligence. Before starting Unshackled Ventures, Nitin founded an experiential ecommerce company.Prior to that, he ran finance and strategy for ed-tech startup Kno (acquired by Intel) that raised over $90M of funding from top VC’s including Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital and Floodgate. Before Kno, Nitin worked at Deloitte, focusing on tech startups and helping them with growth, exits, and strategic initiatives. Nitin has appeared on NBC, NPR, CCTV, has been featured in various publications including Forbes, WSJ, Financial Times, Techcrunch, CNN, and has been an op-ed contributor in the Huffington Post and ReCode. Nitin is actively engaged as mentor or as part of evaluation committee at Stanford University, Babson, Alchemist Accelerator, GTWY, Founder Institute, among others. Being an immigrant himself and having founded startups while on a visa in U.S., Nitin understands the venture resources immigrant founders need, besides capital. He recognizes the opportunity immigrant founders represent and is focused on building an ecosystem that strengthens the pursuit of their American dream.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fashion | 1 | 33% |
| Shopping | 1 | 33% |
| Training | 1 | 33% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 33% |
| Social Network | 1 | 33% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Career Karma | Career Karma is the easiest way to find a job training program online. Over 1 million workers navigate their careers every month through advice and coaching.By offering free coaching and peer mentorship, Career Karma has grown to over 150,000 members from every background and profession.Through its directory of 9,000 boot camps and tradeschools, career switchers discover training programs by comparing courses and reading student reviews.The Career Karma mobile app makes your decision even easier. In the app, you can connect with current students and alumni to find your ideal program and get prepared for admission. | $10M | Series A | Dec 09, 2020 |  |
| Career Karma | Career Karma is the easiest way to find a job training program online. Over 1 million workers navigate their careers every month through advice and coaching.By offering free coaching and peer mentorship, Career Karma has grown to over 150,000 members from every background and profession.Through its directory of 9,000 boot camps and tradeschools, career switchers discover training programs by comparing courses and reading student reviews.The Career Karma mobile app makes your decision even easier. In the app, you can connect with current students and alumni to find your ideal program and get prepared for admission. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 09, 2019 |  |
| somi | A social shopping app built to bring your friends on your shopping journey while marrying AI-driven personalization with aggregation to make shopping fun and time-saving! | $580K | Pre-Seed |  |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kapor Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kapor-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [The 6ixth Event](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-6ixth-event) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bay Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bay-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chingona Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chingona-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Combine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/combine-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Emerson Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emerson-collective) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Unshackled Ventures

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Unshackled Ventures is the only early-stage venture capital fund that enables unrecognized and excluded immigrant founders to start companies in the U.S. Since its founding in 2014, Unshackled has proven its thesis that investing and supporting this population drives strong investment returns across key industries, including Americaninfrastructure, generative AI, healthcare, space, and enterprise SaaS. To date, the firm has invested in 80 companies and over 200 entrepreneurs.

5 contacts available at Unshackled Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E'mani Davis | Operations Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/e-mani-davis |
| Manan Mehta | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manan-mehta |
| Michael Serotte | Law Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-serotte |
| Nitin Pachisia | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nitin-pachisia |
| Alexis Zamira Maciel | Pre-Seed Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexis-zamira-maciel |

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## FAQ

### What does Nitin Pachisia invest in?

Nitin Pachisia invests primarily in Fashion, Shopping and Training startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 3 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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