Nikhil Shah

Founder

2022 - Current

Consultancy working at the intersection of culture, community, technology & social impact, taking on selective projects with companies that are motivated to create cultural or social good.

Founder

2021

A product design brand bringing you beautifully designed, thoughtfully made products; rooted in tradition, reimagined for today. We’re starting by bringing much needed product design innovation to one of the world's most popular drinks, chai, which is still brewed in the humble pot.

Chairman

2021

Established in Brooklyn 2001, Wax Poetics is a global platform for music collectors, with roots as a music magazine dedicated to jazz, funk, soul, Latin, hip-hop, reggae, blues, and R&B. The platform now includes the online and offline magazine, events, Wax Poetics Studio (brand partnerships & premium content production) and Wax Poetics Collections (buy collectible items directly from iconic artists).

Angel Investor

2018

Angel investor in 40+ brilliant startups, with a focus on consumer, the creative industries, wellbeing and social impact. Portfolio companies include Mojo (men’s sexual wellbeing), Heights (braincare), Spoke (mindfulness app), Neo Kuma (psychedelics fund), Flown (deep work), Gwella (functional mushrooms), Clerkenwell Health (clinical research), School of SOS (dance platform), Wednesday’s Domaine (non-alcoholic wine), Something&Nothing (seltzers), Ruka (hair products for black women), Field (large scale energy storage), Climate X (climate risk data & analytics), FairHQ (DEI platform), Code First Girls (coding school), Pawprint (b2b climate change platform), Fiit (#1 fitness app), The Lowdown (women’s reproductive health)

Board Advisor

2020

Co-founder

2008 - 2020

Along with a team of excellent cofounders and colleagues, we have grown Mixcloud to reach 20M listeners a month, with 2M creators on the platform. After 9 years of bootstrapped, organic growth, we went on to raise $15M from leading investors including WndrCo. We are focused on building a suite of tools to help creators express themselves, build community and monetize.

Board Advisor

2018

Board Advisor to The Qube – a home for London’s most inspired creators to prosper, with 100+ purpose-built studios across 4 sites for music, podcast, video & photography. Bringing creators across disciplines together under one roof to share ideas, inspire each other, and find their flow.

Pledger

2017

Proud member of Founders Pledge - a global community of entrepreneurs finding and funding solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.

Director of Digital & Music

2023 - 2024

Building amazing products at the intersection of technology and creativity, helping people connect to their creativity, the people around them and the moment. Working on new categories (Music and Digital).

Founder

2006 - 2023

Record label and clubnight, releasing and promoting forward thinking electronic music; London, Berlin and beyond.

Board Advisor

2020 - 2022

Supported the incredible, mission driven team at SPOKE as a Board Advisor. SPOKE personalises mindfulness and self-therapy through music. Unlike other mindfulness apps, SPOKE transcends current mental health management practices by combining personalised music, self-therapy and mindfulness techniques into an experience that is culturally relevant to 18-25s (men especially), a demographic most in need and missed by current digital mental health products.