Abhishek Sharma

Abhishek Sharma is a Partner (also titled Managing Director in several listings) at Nexus Venture Partners, a cross-border venture firm investing across the US and India. He has been with the firm since roughly 2015 and focuses on early-stage software and AI companies, with deep specialization in helping founders build go-to-market motions around bottom-up adoption and product-led growth and sales. He works with more than a dozen commercial open-source and freemium companies and is known for partnering with first-time technical founders from day one.

Before venture, Abhishek was an operator and founder. He co-founded HelloIntern.com, an early-career/internship platform. He later worked at eBay, where he managed partnerships with marketing-technology startups, and earlier was a consultant at the global strategy firm Booz & Company, with engagements across the US, India, and the Middle East.

On education, Abhishek holds both a Master's and a Bachelor's in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, and an MBA from Harvard Business School — an engineering-plus-business background that underpins his comfort working closely with deeply technical founding teams.

Note: the original stub categorized him as an "Angel Investor / Principal." In practice he invests as a Partner at an institutional VC firm (Nexus Venture Partners), though his deals concentrate at the seed and earliest stages.

• Invests primarily at seed and early stage in software and AI startups, leading or co-leading rounds out of Nexus's funds.
• Describes himself as a "day 1 partner to ultra-ambitious software & AI pioneers" — emphasizing early, hands-on partnership with technical founders.
• Core specialty is product-led growth (PLG) and bottom-up adoption: helping founders design GTM where the product itself drives acquisition and expansion, then layering in sales.
• Strong thesis around commercial open source and freemium business models — he works with "almost a dozen" such companies and understands monetizing OSS communities.
• Particularly drawn to first-time, deeply technical founders building large software/AI and developer-tooling businesses.
• Sector emphasis: AI/ML applications and infrastructure, developer tools, data infrastructure, SaaS, and increasingly AI-agent / automation companies.