Nexus Venture Partners

Nexus Venture Partners is a pioneering cross-border venture capital firm built specifically around the two largest startup ecosystems in the world — the United States and India. Founded in 2006, it operates from Menlo Park alongside Bengaluru and Mumbai, and manages roughly $3.2 billion across eleven funds. In December 2025 it closed its eighth fund at $700 million — described as the largest venture fund raised globally that year — deliberately splitting capital between US-based AI investments and India-focused opportunities; its seventh fund (2023) was also $700 million. Nexus typically acts as the first institutional investor at inception, seed and Series A, writing cheques from about $500K to $10 million, taking a board seat, and reserving capital for follow-on rounds. Its focus spans AI, enterprise software and infrastructure, consumer technology, fintech and commerce. Across nearly 20 years it has backed more than 130 active companies, producing 16 unicorns and 11 IPOs, including Delhivery, Postman, Zepto, Rapido, Infra.Market and Turtlemint, and has returned significant liquidity through exits such as Delhivery, PubMatic, MapmyIndia and Unicommerce. The firm — led by general partners Suvir Sujan and Anup Gupta in India and Jishnu Bhattacharjee and Abhishek Sharma in the US — encourages Indian portfolio companies to establish US operations early, bridging talent and capital across both markets.