Nikhil Basu Trivedi

Co-Founder & General Partner at Footwork

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 46 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investmentsInvested this year
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11
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Series A Lead, Board Member
Apr 2026
Monk is an AI-native accounts receivable (AR) automation platform designed to streamline the entire invoice-to-cash lifecycle for B2B companies. Powered by our autonomous AI agents, Monk eliminates manual AR work for your team by handling invoice follow-ups and questions from customers on your behalf. The team also takes cash application, dispute resolution, credit risk management, and portal submissions off your plate by leveraging frontier models and seamlessly integrating with modern finance stacks to support your AR team. Monk helps customers cut DSO by 40% and get back 26 hours a month. The team includes second-time founders and engineers from D.E. Shaw, Google, Bolt, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley. Headquartered in New York, Monk manages billions in receivables for fast-growing businesses worldwide. Book a demo to deploy the Monk platform on your toughest AR problems: https://monk.com/book-a-demo
Series A Lead, Board Observer
Sep 2025
Anything turns English into apps. Its the AI product engineer for the next wave of entrepreneurs. Everything you need to make money on the internet built in. Our team is small and talent dense by design. We’ve built things people love. So we care that Anything lets anyone build things people love.
Series A Lead, Board Member
Aug 2025
The biggest unmet need in AI today is getting access to the right training data. Data holders often don’t know where to start and are rightly concerned about governance, intellectual property, and security implications. AI companies can spend years finding and negotiating access to the data they need. Protege is solving these problems by providing an easy-to-use platform to connect data holders with vetted data users.
Series A Lead, Board Member
Jul 2025
Snout makes veterinary care accessible to all pet owners through instant, universal financing - with no credit checks, breed, or age restrictions. Pet owners enroll through their veterinarian and receive immediate coverage, while Snout pays the practice directly.
Series A Lead, Board Member
May 2025
Confido is the AI infrastructure powering CPG brands from deduction to production plan. Back-office infrastructure for CPG has long been manual and disjointed - until now. Finance, accounting, sales, and operations teams have been stuck manually pulling data from portals, PDFs, and emails. Workflows are historically disparate with information scattered across systems. Confido brings it all together in one integrated, AI-powered platform. Cash application, deductions, disputes, trade promotion management, sales forecasting, demand planning, and analytics are seamlessly connected in a single system purpose-built for CPG. The result: measurable time savings across departments, smarter top- and bottom-line decision-making, and the speed to scale. Confido is trusted by 200+ brands managing $20B+ in revenue, including OLIPOP, Simple Mills, Dr. Squatch, Tropicana, and more.
Series A Lead, Board Observer
May 2025
Waldo is your AI-powered strategy engine for agencies & brands. It combines audience intelligence, industry trends, and competitor moves into one powerful platform. Get started with a free trial or book a demo. Companies like BSSP, Golin, Havas, Kettle & Fire, GUT, Conair, ATTN and People Made leverage Waldo to get proactive insights for their brand, marketing and account teams.
Series A Lead, Board Member
Mar 2025
Fuse is the AI-native Loan Origination System and Account Opening platform for Credit Unions, Banks, Auto & Powersports Lenders, and Finance Companies. Founded in 2020, Fuse powers 100+ financial institutions with one platform that runs the full lending and account opening flow, anchored by Proactive Automation, a continuous program that identifies and ships the next highest-impact automation opportunity for each institution, and contractual guarantees that put outcomes on the line, not in the sales deck. Backed by $25M+ from the investors behind Chime and OpenAI. Headquartered in New York.
Series A Co-Lead, Board Observer
Oct 2024
Elicit, the AI research assistant, helps you automate time-consuming research tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing your findings. Were a public benefit company with a mission to scale up good reasoning. We want machine learning to help as much with thinking and reflection as it does with tasks that have clear short-term outcomes.
Series A Lead, Board Member
May 2024
GPTZero is the worlds leading AI-text identification platform. Our mission is to restore information quality and transparency on the internet. We give millions of users the ability to see the origin, reliability, and quality of information, and enable responsible adoption of AI.
Series Seed Lead, Board Observer
May 2024
Were building a virtual dermatology solution to bring affordable and effective care to underserved patients suffering from chronic skin conditions.
Series A Co-Lead, Board Observer
Jan 2024
Beautiful, affordable & always-on brand tracking. Tracksuit is the common language for companies to measure and communicate the value of brand. We’re on a mission to get brand data in every boardroom. Join us on the track 👇
Investor
Jan 2024
Watershed is the enterprise sustainability platform. Companies like Airbnb, Carlyle Group, the CDP, YETI, and BBVA use Watershed to reduce emissions, meet customer, investor and regulatory requirements, and modernize their sustainability programs. With offices in London, New York and San Francisco, and remote employees across the US and Europe, we’re growing fast and hiring for a variety of roles! Explore all of our open opportunities at watershed.com/jobs.
Series Seed Lead, Board Member
May 2023
Creating weather certainty. WindBorne fuses unparalleled data from our constellation of smart, long-duration sensing balloons with state-of-the-art AI forecasts.
Series Seed Lead, Board Observer
Mar 2023
ReflexAI brings the best in machine learning and natural language processing to mission-driven, people-centric organizations via innovative tools that transform how they train, develop, and empower their frontline teams.
Series Seed Lead, Board Member
2023
The Word of Mouth platform: curation, authenticity, and community. Find & share your favorite everything 💕 Were more fun on IG: instagram.com/benable_hq
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2026
Series A Lead, Board Member
Apr 2026
Monk is an AI-native accounts receivable (AR) automation platform designed to streamline the entire invoice-to-cash lifecycle for B2B companies. Powered by our autonomous AI agents, Monk eliminates manual AR work for your team by handling invoice follow-ups and questions from customers on your behalf. The team also takes cash application, dispute resolution, credit risk management, and portal submissions off your plate by leveraging frontier models and seamlessly integrating with modern finance stacks to support your AR team. Monk helps customers cut DSO by 40% and get back 26 hours a month. The team includes second-time founders and engineers from D.E. Shaw, Google, Bolt, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley. Headquartered in New York, Monk manages billions in receivables for fast-growing businesses worldwide. Book a demo to deploy the Monk platform on your toughest AR problems: https://monk.com/book-a-demo
2025
Series A Lead, Board Observer
Sep 2025
Anything turns English into apps. Its the AI product engineer for the next wave of entrepreneurs. Everything you need to make money on the internet built in. Our team is small and talent dense by design. We’ve built things people love. So we care that Anything lets anyone build things people love.
Series A Lead, Board Member
Aug 2025
The biggest unmet need in AI today is getting access to the right training data. Data holders often don’t know where to start and are rightly concerned about governance, intellectual property, and security implications. AI companies can spend years finding and negotiating access to the data they need. Protege is solving these problems by providing an easy-to-use platform to connect data holders with vetted data users.
Series A Lead, Board Member
Jul 2025
Snout makes veterinary care accessible to all pet owners through instant, universal financing - with no credit checks, breed, or age restrictions. Pet owners enroll through their veterinarian and receive immediate coverage, while Snout pays the practice directly.
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