Nishkaam Mehta

CEO - Abound, a financial super-app for expats backed by Circle, Times of India and Near Foundation | Investor and LP in consumer, fintech and digital media funds and start-ups.

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated July 2026💼 9 investments📅 19 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2015
VC🌍 United States
9
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5
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1
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Investor
2015
IMGN is a next generation media company focused on Gen Z audiences with 60 million followers and growing. Our media channels including Daquan, So Satisfying and TryHard bring  young viewers the specialized formats they crave such as memes, ASMR and satisfying videos. We are a top Snapchat Discover publisher as well as pioneers in the live TikTok and Twitch music streaming spaces. Vertical Studios was founded by IMGN in 2021 to translate everything we know about reaching Gen Z with impact to Fortune 500 brands on platforms ranging from TikTok to Discord, Twitch, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube. Brand partners have included Levi’s, Panasonic, Amazon, McDonald’s, Adobe, Riot Games and many more. IMGN was acquired by Warner Music Group in 2020.
early stageMedia Production
Investor
May 2014
Uniqode is a phygital platform that offers secure ROI-driven QR code and digital business card solutions for mapping online and offline touchpoints across marketing, sales, packaging, logistics, and networking. Our certified 200 Million+ QR Codes are trusted by Fortune 500 brands and over 50,000 businesses worldwide.
Investor
Apr 2013
Tala is the first financial platform for the Global Majority. Our leading money app bridges digital and cash ecosystems to deliver instant access to credit, payments, savings, and transfer services to millions of customers on three continents. Powered by advanced technology and human creativity, Tala is reinventing financial infrastructure to solve what legacy institutions can’t or won’t, in order to unlock global economic progress. Tala has raised nearly half a billion dollars in investments and debt, backed by leading venture and impact investors including Upstart, the Stellar Development Foundation, RPS Ventures, the J. Safra Group, IVP, Revolution Growth, Lowercase Capital, and PayPal Ventures. Tala has been named to Fortune’s Impact 20, CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list four years in a row, and Forbes’ Fintech 50 list for eight consecutive years. Tala’s impact has been highlighted by the New York Times, NPR, Forbes, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and TED, among others. Tala is headquartered in Santa Monica with offices in Nairobi, Manila, Mexico City, and Bangalore.
Seed Investor
2012
IMGN is a next generation media company focused on Gen Z audiences with 60 million followers and growing. Our media channels including Daquan, So Satisfying and TryHard bring  young viewers the specialized formats they crave such as memes, ASMR and satisfying videos. We are a top Snapchat Discover publisher as well as pioneers in the live TikTok and Twitch music streaming spaces. Vertical Studios was founded by IMGN in 2021 to translate everything we know about reaching Gen Z with impact to Fortune 500 brands on platforms ranging from TikTok to Discord, Twitch, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube. Brand partners have included Levi’s, Panasonic, Amazon, McDonald’s, Adobe, Riot Games and many more. IMGN was acquired by Warner Music Group in 2020.
early stageMedia Production
Investor
2012
Tala is the first financial platform for the Global Majority. Our leading money app bridges digital and cash ecosystems to deliver instant access to credit, payments, savings, and transfer services to millions of customers on three continents. Powered by advanced technology and human creativity, Tala is reinventing financial infrastructure to solve what legacy institutions can’t or won’t, in order to unlock global economic progress. Tala has raised nearly half a billion dollars in investments and debt, backed by leading venture and impact investors including Upstart, the Stellar Development Foundation, RPS Ventures, the J. Safra Group, IVP, Revolution Growth, Lowercase Capital, and PayPal Ventures. Tala has been named to Fortune’s Impact 20, CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list four years in a row, and Forbes’ Fintech 50 list for eight consecutive years. Tala’s impact has been highlighted by the New York Times, NPR, Forbes, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and TED, among others. Tala is headquartered in Santa Monica with offices in Nairobi, Manila, Mexico City, and Bangalore.
Seed Investor
2010
Uniqode is a phygital platform that offers secure ROI-driven QR code and digital business card solutions for mapping online and offline touchpoints across marketing, sales, packaging, logistics, and networking. Our certified 200 Million+ QR Codes are trusted by Fortune 500 brands and over 50,000 businesses worldwide.
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2022
ODF 14 Founder Fellowship
Jul 2022
Our mission is to help more people start better startups. ODF is a program we created over four years ago to help those at the exploration stage of starting a company. So far, weve helped over 1000 companies get started and raise over $2 billion. Starting a company is really exciting, but there are so many things you need to figure out in order to actually build one. - "Who might I start my company with?" - “What might we build?” - “Who might our initial customers be?” - “Should we raise funding soon, or should we try to bootstrap in the beginning?" These and many more questions are what we refer to as the "missing pieces"—the things you need to figure out to know if starting a company is right for you and what company you should ultimately build. With ODF, we bring together 80 to 100 people who are at the very same stage as you. Theyre all exceptionally talented, and theyre all trying to figure it out together.
2015
Investor
2015
IMGN is a next generation media company focused on Gen Z audiences with 60 million followers and growing. Our media channels including Daquan, So Satisfying and TryHard bring  young viewers the specialized formats they crave such as memes, ASMR and satisfying videos. We are a top Snapchat Discover publisher as well as pioneers in the live TikTok and Twitch music streaming spaces. Vertical Studios was founded by IMGN in 2021 to translate everything we know about reaching Gen Z with impact to Fortune 500 brands on platforms ranging from TikTok to Discord, Twitch, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube. Brand partners have included Levi’s, Panasonic, Amazon, McDonald’s, Adobe, Riot Games and many more. IMGN was acquired by Warner Music Group in 2020.
early stageMedia Production
2014
Investor
May 2014
Uniqode is a phygital platform that offers secure ROI-driven QR code and digital business card solutions for mapping online and offline touchpoints across marketing, sales, packaging, logistics, and networking. Our certified 200 Million+ QR Codes are trusted by Fortune 500 brands and over 50,000 businesses worldwide.
2013
Investor
Apr 2013
Tala is the first financial platform for the Global Majority. Our leading money app bridges digital and cash ecosystems to deliver instant access to credit, payments, savings, and transfer services to millions of customers on three continents. Powered by advanced technology and human creativity, Tala is reinventing financial infrastructure to solve what legacy institutions can’t or won’t, in order to unlock global economic progress. Tala has raised nearly half a billion dollars in investments and debt, backed by leading venture and impact investors including Upstart, the Stellar Development Foundation, RPS Ventures, the J. Safra Group, IVP, Revolution Growth, Lowercase Capital, and PayPal Ventures. Tala has been named to Fortune’s Impact 20, CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list four years in a row, and Forbes’ Fintech 50 list for eight consecutive years. Tala’s impact has been highlighted by the New York Times, NPR, Forbes, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and TED, among others. Tala is headquartered in Santa Monica with offices in Nairobi, Manila, Mexico City, and Bangalore.
2012
Venture Partner
2012
GSFs objective is to spur innovation and entrepreneurship through angel and seed investing. Our larger mission is to encourage the flow of informed, knowledgeable mentorship capital to start-ups in India and beyond. Three key activities of GSF are: 1) GSF Forum - Global Investor Conference for early-stage investment in India. 2) GSF Accelerator - Startup Accelerator for early-stage tech product companies in India 3) GSF Superangels - provide mentorship and angel funding for startups in India
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