Abhishek Sharma
InvestorFounderManaging Director at Nexus Venture Partners · Board director at Fingerprint · Board director at TileDB
Burlingame, California
Writes $100K – $10M checks · typically $1M
FoundedFingerprintTileDB
About
Abhishek Sharma is a Partner at Nexus Venture Partners, where he leads technology and artificial intelligence investments for the firm's $3.2 billion in assets under management. Based in San Francisco and Menlo Park, Sharma focuses on seed and Series A stage investments, with particular interest in distribution models, product-led growth, and open source technologies.
Board director at Fingerprint
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Fingerprint's investors · 4
Co-founders at Fingerprint
VV
Valentin VasilyevCTO and co-founder
DP
Dan PintoExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter
Board director at TileDB
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TileDB's investors · 9
Alley Robotics VenturesCohasset · $500K – $2M checksAlleyCorpNew York · $1M – $5M checksBig Pi VenturesAthens · $540K – $3.2M checksIntel CapitalSanta Clara · $1M – $20M checksLockheed Martin VenturesBethesdaNTT DOCOMO VenturesTokyoS VenturesMountain View · $1M – $5M checksSAV (Scale Asia Ventures)Palo AltoTwo Bear CapitalWhitefish · $3M – $10M checks · since 2023
Co-founders at TileDB
SP
Stavros PapadopoulosExecutive Officer, Director
SM
Samuel MaddenDirector
Experience
- Nexus Venture PartnersPartnercurrent2015 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- FirecrawlBoard Membercurrent2025 — present
- GumloopBoard Membercurrent2024 — present
- NaïveBoard Membercurrent2026 — present
- Apollo.ioBoard Membercurrent2016 — present
- FingerprintBoard Membercurrent2020 — present
- DaloopaFounding Investor, Board Membercurrent2019 — present
- FreehandBoard Membercurrent2022 — present
- LuzidBoard Membercurrent2026 — present
- Neuron7.aiBoard Membercurrent2021 — present
- OrkesBoard Membercurrent2023 — present
- bolt.newSeed Investorcurrent2019 — present
- GigaInvestorcurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Browser UseSeed Investorcurrent2025 — present
- ParameterInvestorcurrent2026 — present
- Ember AIInvestorcurrent2025 — present
- CostreamInvestorcurrent2026 — present
- QFEXSeed Investorcurrent2025 — present
- Aemon (YC W26)Investorcurrent2026 — present
- Index RoboticsFounding Investorcurrent2025 — present
Education
- Harvard Business SchoolMBA2013 — 2015
- Indian Institute of Technology, BombayB.Tech, Mechanical Eng2004 — 2009
Skills & more
Entrepreneurship90Management Consulting73Start-ups53Financial Modeling43Market Entry35Due Diligence33Business Planning29Business Transformation20Strategic Partnerships19Venture Capital17New Business Development15Feasibility Studies8
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Colleagues at Nexus Venture Partners
Anand Datta
Partner at Nexus Venture Partners
Aniket Kamthe
Investor at Nexus Venture Partners
Anup Gupta
Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners
Arjun Gandhi
Vice President at Nexus Venture Partners
Jishnu Bhattacharjee
Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners
Manav Shah
Investor at Nexus Venture Partners
Naren Gupta
Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners
Nitisha Bansal
Vice President at Nexus Venture Partners
Network14
Paul GrahamScout
Co-founder of Y Combinator
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Deepak JeevankumarScout
Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital
Dharmesh ThakkerScout
General Partner at Battery Ventures
Liz WesselScout
Partner at First Round Capital
Yuri SagalovScout
Founder and Managing Partner at Wayfinder Ventures
Abhinav Asthana
Chief Technology Officer at Redwood Trust
Alex Scherbakovsky
General Partner at Atlantic Vantage Point
Arra Malekzadeh
Partner at Craft Ventures
Bill Ericson
Managing Director at Wildcat Venture Partners
David Marquardt
Founding Partner at August Capital
Nitisha Bansal
Vice President at Nexus Venture Partners
Priya Saiprasad
Investment Advisory Council at Neythri Futures Fund
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Frequently asked questions
- Where does Abhishek Sharma work?
- Abhishek Sharma is Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners and Founder at Fingerprint and Founder at TileDB.
- What check size does Abhishek Sharma write?
- Abhishek Sharma typically writes checks of $100K – $10M.
- What companies did Abhishek Sharma found?
- Abhishek Sharma founded Fingerprint, TileDB.
Same school
Also attended Harvard Business School1,969
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Also attended Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay145
Harsh ShahVenture Partner at FJ LabsSandeep PatilPartner, Head of Asia-Pacific at QED InvestorsUrsheet ParikhInvestor in AI, Enterprise Infrastructure, and Human & Planetary Health at MayfieldArpit BeriManaging Partner, India at Jungle VenturesVishesh SharmaPrincipal, India at Jungle VenturesRanvita AgrawalSenior Associate, India at Jungle Ventures
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