Profile

Nihal Mehta

Location: USA

Nihal Mehta is an entrepreneur, investor, professor and philanthropist. He was lucky to discover his passion over fifteen years ago- in mobile technology- which drove him to co-found five startups

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#168

Xs

426

Investments

84

Exits

64
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Overview
About Nihal Mehta
Number of Portfolio Companies 5
Location USA

Nihal Mehta is an entrepreneur, investor, professor and philanthropist. He was lucky to discover his passion over fifteen years ago- in mobile technology- which drove him to co-found five startups (philly2nite, urbangroove, ipsh!, buzz, localresponse/qualia) and two investment funds (Eniac Ventures, India Internet Fund) with over 100 mobile-first investments including Admob (sold to Google), AirBnB, HotelTonight, SwiftKey. Tapad, and Uber. Nihal co-founded the charity “Proiect Ahimsa” to provide music education to disadvantaged youth, is part of the brain trust of “Girls Who Code,” working to close the gender gap in the technology and engineering sectors, and often lectures on mobile & entrepreneurship across the globe. Nihal graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Philosophy and a BSE in Computer Science

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ENTRY ROUND
VALUATION at entry ($M)
Xs
VALUATION 
Hinge
$4,03M
1538,46
$6 200M
Ginger
$5M
600
$3 000M
Uber
Series B
$297,76M
254,27
$75 710M
SpotOn
Series A
$27M
133,33
$3 600M
Airbnb
Series D
$9 525M
4,27
$40 630M

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2024