# Preetish Nijhawan

> Preetish Nijhawan is a Series A investor at Cervin Ventures backing SaaS and Software. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Cervin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cervin-ventures)
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Dec 2023
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/preetishnijhawan
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/pnijhawan
- Website: https://www.cervin.com/

Preetish Nijhawan is a Series A investor at Cervin Ventures in Menlo Park focused on SaaS and Software. Preetish Nijhawan is Managing Director of Cervin Ventures. Most recently, Preetish was Chief Financial Officer for Neon Enterprise Software. Before that, Preetish was Vice President of Strategic Alliances at NeoEdge Networks, a video game advertising company. Preetish was also Vice President, Portfolio and Program Management for BMC Software. Priorto BMC, he was Vice President, Operations of iVita Corporation, an asset management software startup he helped found.Preetish has advised senior executives in hardware, software and telecom industries for McKinsey and Company. He co-founded Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) in 1998, He also worked for nearly six years in the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) division at Intel in various engineering and program management roles. Preetish earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from The University of Southern California, and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 6 | 40% |
| Software | 4 | 27% |
| Cyber Security | 3 | 20% |
| Mobile | 2 | 13% |
| Big Data | 2 | 13% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 33% |
| Seed | 4 | 27% |
| Series B | 4 | 27% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 60% |
| India | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ArmorCode | ArmorCode offers an AppSecOps platform that reduces application exposure and risk for customers. Its customers use the platform for AppSec Posture, Vulnerability and Compliance Management, and DevSecOps automation. ArmorCode AppSecOps platform is delivering a 10X AppSec Force Multiplier impact to several marquee enterprises. The company wasfounded in 2020 and is based in Palo Alto, California. | $40M | Series B | Dec 04, 2023 |  |
| Catch+Release | Catch&Release is an end-to-end content licensing platform that enables brands and advertisers to license content from anywhere on the internet. Streamline the clearance and licensing process within the Content Exchange, a licensing platform where users can organize shots from anywhere on the internet, receive Clearance Ratings to understandwhat content is licensable, and initiate clearances and licensing at the click of a button. Catch&Release negotiates copyright and model clearances on your behalf, provides indemnification, and keeps track of all documentation, transactions, and license data. | $8.8M | Series A | Aug 08, 2023 |  |
| FireCompass | FireCompass is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART) and Attack Surface Management (ASM). It constantly indexes and monitors the deep, dark, and surface webs in order to map an organization's digital attack surface, including Shadow IT blind spots. The platform then launches safe multi-stageattacks, simulating a real attacker, to assist in identifying attack paths before hackers do. While providing continuous and proactive security, the platform eliminates the need for multiple tools and significant manual effort. The product is used by the top three telecom companies, the top three IT companies, major banks/financial services companies, and others from a variety of industries. | $7M | Series A | Feb 06, 2023 |  |
| FireCompass India | FireCompass India is a SaaS platform for Continuous Automated Red Teaming and External Attack Surface Management. | $7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 06, 2023 |  |
| ArmorCode | ArmorCode offers an AppSecOps platform that reduces application exposure and risk for customers. Its customers use the platform for AppSec Posture, Vulnerability and Compliance Management, and DevSecOps automation. ArmorCode AppSecOps platform is delivering a 10X AppSec Force Multiplier impact to several marquee enterprises. The company wasfounded in 2020 and is based in Palo Alto, California. | $14M | Series A | Nov 16, 2022 |  |
| American Cricket Enterprises | American Cricket Enterprises is a strategic partner of the professional T20 cricket league. | $44M | Series A | May 18, 2022 |  |
| ArmorCode | ArmorCode offers an AppSecOps platform that reduces application exposure and risk for customers. Its customers use the platform for AppSec Posture, Vulnerability and Compliance Management, and DevSecOps automation. ArmorCode AppSecOps platform is delivering a 10X AppSec Force Multiplier impact to several marquee enterprises. The company wasfounded in 2020 and is based in Palo Alto, California. | $8M | Seed | Jan 25, 2022 |  |
| Zycada | Zycada drives the fastest eCommerce experiences in the world by accelerating dynamic content 10X.Today's online shoppers have high expectations of performance and personalization, placing the burden of speed directly on the eCommerce brand. But, the brand doesn't control the network path. Using Zycada, retailers compute and deliverdynamic content more quickly, and adapt to changing network conditions in real-time to maintain a heightened Quality of Experience. Zycada Cloud Service Accelerator uses app-aware technology to personalize the shopping experience individually with no code changes. By delighting users, retailers ensure higher engagement and sustained revenue lift. Customers using Zycada report a 5%+ revenue gain. | $19M | Series B | Jun 16, 2020 |  |
| Bungee Tech | At Bungee Tech, we believe that accurate, high-quality data matched with compelling market insights empowers a business to innovate faster and deliver extra value to its customers. That’s why we provide a clear and complete picture of a company's competitors by capturing their publicly available data at scale. Using high-quality extraction,we uncover detailed information on products or services, which we automatically match, and then proactively track for price, promotion and availability. Plus, anything we don’t match helps to identify a new assortment opportunity. Empowered with this unrivalled intelligence, we unlock compelling analytics and insights that once blended with verified partner data from trusted sources such as Nielsen, paints a complete, consolidated picture of the competitive landscape.Based in Bellevue, Washington, Bungee Tech is backed by Silicon Valley financiers, NextGen Venture Partners and Cervin Ventures. | $2.9M | Seed | Mar 10, 2019 |  |
| Punchh | Punchh creates the consistent, modern experiences consumers expect by bringing the power of identity resolution into physical retail. Punchh is the leader in delivering one-to-one customer engagement and loyalty beyond mobile devices for a consistent brand experience through every channel. The Punchh Loyalty and Engagement Platform, powered throughartificial intelligence, guides consumers through their lifecycle from first-time customer to superfan, building meaningful relationships and dramatically increasing lifetime customer value. Nearly 200 global enterprise brands rely on Punchh to grow revenue by building customer relationships. The company is based in Silicon Valley, California with a second US office in Austin, TX and global offices across Canada, India, the United Kingdom, and Singapore. The Punchh marketing platform integrates with an entire ecosystem of third party systems including Point of Sale (POS) systems, WiFi vendors, kiosks, payments systems and mobile payment providers, e-commerce and online ordering systems, email service providers, and gift card systems. Learn more at punchh.com | $20M | Series B | Jan 01, 2018 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sierra Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sierra-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ballistic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ballistic-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bharat Innovation Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bharat-innovation-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Athera Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inventus-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [35V](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/35v) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Cervin Ventures

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Cervin Ventures is a early-stage venture capital firm investing in founders to build good startups and great companies. Cervin partners with disciplined entrepreneurs that are building tools, applications and infrastructure products to address massive, fast-growing markets. For more than a decade, Cervin has leveraged the operating backgrounds ofits investors to help founders build enduring companies and avoid short-lived hype cycles. Cervin has invested in more than 50 companies including LaunchDarkly, Paystand, and Celona, with more than a dozen successful exits from companies such as Punchh and Tynker.

5 contacts available at Cervin Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Preetish Nijhawan | Co-Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/preetish-nijhawan |
| Shirish Sathaye | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shirish-sathaye |
| Courtney McKee | Director of Finance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/courtney-mckee-a486 |
| Daniel Karp | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-karp |
| Neeraj Gupta | Co-Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neeraj-gupta-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Preetish Nijhawan invest in?

Preetish Nijhawan invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Cyber Security startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Preetish Nijhawan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Preetish Nijhawan closed in Dec 2023. Shizune tracks 15 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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