Fireside Chat with Nexus Venture Partners

​Join us for a candid conversation with Abhishek Sharma (HBS '15), Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners.

​Discover what it really takes to spot, build, and back breakout AI companies. We'll unpack how early-stage investors evaluate AI startups, do a teardown of sample AI investment and dive into frontier themes like vibe coding, voice AI, agentic commerce, GPU compute, consumer AI and many others. Abhishek will also explore his personal journey of breaking into VC (spoiler: it entails a BIG-C Commitment).

​Real stories, real lessons for both founders and investors. Open to all. RSVP required.

​Additionally, if you are interested, you can also sign up for office hours with Nexus using this link. Abhishek Sharma (HBS ‘15, Managing Director at Nexus) and Amrut Rajkarne (HBS ‘24, Vice President at Nexus) are on HBS campus also on November 5, 2025 to connect with student founders (who are either building or ideating), and with students exploring a career in VC. There are limited spots for the office hours and applicants will be shortlisted.

​Nexus Venture Partners has USD 2.6 billion funds under management with offices in Bay Area and India. Nexus takes a high conviction approach serving as inception, seed, Series-A partner to founders actively engaging throughout the company lifecycle. Some of the notable investments include Apollo, Postman, Bolt.new, Gumloop, Firecrawl, BrowserUse, Tensorwave, GigaML, Further AI, Avoca, Dynamo, Zepto, Rapido, Snabbit and many more.