Niki Pezeshki
General Partner at Felicis Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Venture Partner
2025 - Current
General Partner
2021 - 2025
- Vannevar Labs (software for defense) - Guild Education (tuition reimbursement benefits) - Guideline (401K benefits) - Crusoe Energy (AI data centers and GPU cloud) - Radiant Nuclear (micro nuclear reactors) - Kandji (Apple mobile device management) - Sona (enterprise frontline workforce management) - DoNotPay (consumer protection app) - PopMenu (front-end restaurant software) - Predibase (LLM infrastructure software) - Bunkerhill Health (marketplace for radiology AI models) - Flower Labs (federated learning open-source framework) - Trusted Health (healthcare staffing platform) - Modern Health (behavioral health benefits) - Disco Network (customer acquisition platform built on Shopify ecosystem) - Origin (financial wellness benefits) - Sentilink (synthetic fraud detection) - MadKudu (lead-scoring software for GTM teams) - Adventris (cancer vaccines) - Proton (sales enablement and CRM software for distributors) - HyperScience (AI to automate office work) - Cleo (employee benefits for expecting families) - Commsor (community management software) - Genesis Therapeutics (AI for drug discovery) - Octave (modern mental health and therapy clinic) - Glencoco (tech-enabled SDR marketplace)
Partner
2019 - 2021
Principal
2018 - 2019
Vice President
2017 - 2018
Senior Associate
2016 - 2017
Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Investor / Board
2022
Vannevar Labs is a technology startup providing defense and national security technologies for critical national security problems.
Raised $87,000,000.00 from Felicis, General Catalyst, DFJ Growth, Point72 Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Shield Capital and Aloft VC.
Investor
2018
Investor
2017
Guideline is a retirement plan platform that offers the all-inclusive 401(k) and full-stack solution for growing businesses.
Raised $339,000,000.00 from Greyhound Capital, Xfund, Generation Investment Management, Propel, Marbruck, Future Planet Capital, Felicis and General Atlantic.
Investor
2022
Crusoe Energy Systems provides solutions for the energy industry helping them to reduce routine flaring of natural gas.
Raised $1,247,500,000.00 from Founders Fund and Felicis.
Investor / Board
2021
Kandji is an Apple device management platform that enables secure and productive use of Mac, iPad, iOS, and tvOS devices.
Raised $288,375,000.00 from General Catalyst.
Investor
2024
Radiant develops portable nuclear microreactors as clean energy alternatives.
Raised $153,819,987.00 from Union Square Ventures, Washington Harbour Partners, Chevron Technology Ventures, Also Capital, McKinley Capital Management, DCVC, Felicis, Andreessen Horowitz, Boost VC and Decisive Point.
Investor / Board
2024
Investor / Board
2019
Popmenu is a SaaS company that helps restaurants turn their menu into a customer conversion engine.
Raised $87,144,981.00 from Base10 Partners, Felicis, Bedrock, Tiger Global Management and Salesforce Ventures.
Investor / Board
2023