Nitin Sharma

The USC Viterbi School of Engineering offers its 2,400 undergraduate students more than 30 majors and areas of emphasis, and provides its 4,200 graduate students with advanced studies in more than 25 fields. The Viterbi School is one of the nation's leading engineering institutions in the fields of aerospace, astronautics & space technology, biomedical, chemical, civil, computer science & computer engineering, electrical, environmental, industrial & systems, materials science, mechanical engineering, and systems architecting & engineering. Did you know? The U.S. News and World Report ranks USC Viterbi in the top 10 in this year's Best Graduate School Rankings. USC Viterbi ranked #1 in the U.S. News and World Report 2013 rankings: Online Graduate Engineering Programs and Online Computer Information Technology Programs. USC Viterbi's Online Engineering Management degree is ranked #2 in the nation by SuperScholar’s Best Online Schools for Engineering Management Degrees. USC Games was named #1 video games program by The Princeton Review for the 4th year. USC CS is ranked in the top 10 on Microsoft academic research rankings in Computer Science.

Opower is the platform for utility customer action. Its the magic in the utility customer experience and the key to customer-centric grid operations. Opower brings AI and behavioral science into the utility CX, gets the attention of busy people, and influences them to act at population scale. More than 175 utilities around the world have deployed Opower to create energy savings, peak demand reduction, digital self-service, faster program adoption, and satisfied customers.

AddThis is the leading provider of behavioral audience data and website marketing tools. We help brands build more authentic customer relationships through insight, activation and personalization products powered by the AddThis Audience Intelligence (Ai) platform. AddThis Ai processes the real-time interest and intent data from 1.9B monthly uniques across 15M global domains. Our extraordinary reach, combined with world-class data science and seamless integration across the marketing ecosystem, gives marketers and advertisers unprecedented transparency into target audiences and enhances their ability to deliver effective personalized experiences across paid and owned media. AddThis is currently ranked #1 in the US by comScore for distributed content and ad focus. Learn more about how the AddThis platform can drive results for your business: www.addthis.com/platform.

Antler is one of the most active early-stage investors globally. The firm leads in ‘Day Zero’ investing, an approach to venture capital focused on partnering with founders pre-launch. Antler systematically removes capital and network constraints for early-stage technology entrepreneurs by providing co-founder matching, deep business model validation, initial capital, expansion support, and follow-on funding. The firm is present in 27 cities across most leading technology ecosystems globally and has made over 1,300 investments into early-stage startups. Antler has been repeatedly recognized by Pitchbook as the world’s most active angel and seed-stage investor.

The USC Viterbi School of Engineering offers its 2,400 undergraduate students more than 30 majors and areas of emphasis, and provides its 4,200 graduate students with advanced studies in more than 25 fields. The Viterbi School is one of the nation's leading engineering institutions in the fields of aerospace, astronautics & space technology, biomedical, chemical, civil, computer science & computer engineering, electrical, environmental, industrial & systems, materials science, mechanical engineering, and systems architecting & engineering. Did you know? The U.S. News and World Report ranks USC Viterbi in the top 10 in this year's Best Graduate School Rankings. USC Viterbi ranked #1 in the U.S. News and World Report 2013 rankings: Online Graduate Engineering Programs and Online Computer Information Technology Programs. USC Viterbi's Online Engineering Management degree is ranked #2 in the nation by SuperScholar’s Best Online Schools for Engineering Management Degrees. USC Games was named #1 video games program by The Princeton Review for the 4th year. USC CS is ranked in the top 10 on Microsoft academic research rankings in Computer Science.

AngelList is the worlds largest startup platform to fundraise, recruit and launch. Now in India.

First Principles represents a portfolio of angel investments led by Nitin Sharma, following his investing and startup journeys at NEA, EverFi, Lightbox Ventures. As a group, we have evaluated 1200+ startups over the last 2 years and backed 30 of them. Roughly half of the portfolio is focused on the digitization of various spaces and sectors in India, while the other half takes on a global deep tech lens, with a strong focus on blockchain.

Incrypt started as a curated network of blockchain practitioners and enthusiasts standing for a deeper understanding of blockchain, cryptocurrencies and ICOs. By focusing on fundamentals, and cutting through the noise and hype. A) We Invest and Help Build Startups. Besides analyzing a wide array of liquid, digital assets, we are leveraging our global network to spot seed-stage protocol and blockchain infra investment opportunities, and helping entrepreneurs / developers get to the next stage. We are also studying challenges around usability and scalability of current blockchain infrastructure and tools, and tinkering with ideas to solve them. ​ B) We Help Build an Ecosystem. Through high-quality discussions and insightful content, we are nurturing a vibrant 400+ blockchain developer community in India to begin with, and are building bridges to the strongest blockchain ecosystems globally. We also engage with policymakers regularly to shine light on how blockchain technology can transform society, and to promote more nuanced regulation.