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Nakul Mandan

Founder of Audacious Ventures

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Nakul Mandan is the Founder and Partner at Audacious Ventures, a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. He has successfully invested in a variety of companies across different stages, including Tezi, Vartana, People.ai, and Abstract, showcasing a strong track record of supporting startups through various funding rounds.

Work Experience 

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Audacious Ventures

  • Founder and Partner

    2020 - Current

Partnering with the most ambitious founders in technology and helping them achieve their most audacious goals

audacious.co
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Lightspeed Venture Partners

  • Venture Partner

    2020

  • Partner

    2014 - 2020

    Led Lightspeed's investments in: Gainsight, People.ai, Multiverse, WorkOS and BuildingConnected amongst others.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.

lsvp.com
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People.ai

  • Board Member and Lead investor

    2016

People.ai is an AI platform that provides workflow-based applications to transform business activities and increase sales productivity.

Raised $200,001,000.00 from Nimesh Kampani and Ballistic Ventures.

people.ai
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Multiverse

  • Board Member and Lead Investor

    2018

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Gainsight

  • Board Observer and Investor

    2014 - 2020

  • Board Member

    2013 - 2014

Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.

Raised $156,250,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Founders Circle Capital, Cisco Investments, Bessemer Venture Partners and Battery Ventures.

gainsight.com

BuildingConnected

  • Board Member and Investor

    2017 - 2018

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Battery Ventures

  • Investor

    2009 - 2014

Battery Ventures is a investment firm that focuses on technology.

battery.com

Blue River Capital

  • Associate

    2006 - 2009

    $140m India focused growth fund. Sectors of focus included financial services, logistics, and power ancillaries.

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Deutsche Bank

  • Analyst

    2005 - 2006

DB Capital Ventures invests in early-stage and emerging growth businesses and is a venture capital firm based in New York.

db.com

Education 

Investments 

Tezi

Seed

Total funding: $9M

Jamix

Pre Seed

Total funding: $3M

Vartana

Seed

Total funding: $46M

Multiverse

Seed

Total funding: $430M

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