Nipun

product team

"It is better to fail in the pursuit of the great as opposed to being successful in the pursuit of not so great"

origins

Nipun leads product at Venture Highway. Prior to joining VH, Nipun has been a 2x entrepreneur and has held senior product roles in tech startups like Paytm, Policybazaar & Nium.

He founded RecruiterGrid, a user/candidate profiling platform, which he successfully exited to Paytm in 2018. He also started a marketplace for 1:1 professional advice in 2013 to help first-time founders with idea validation, product, GTM, sales & more.

He has worked on products in the FinTech, EdTech & HRTech space. Nipun is a B.Tech from IIT Roorkee.

why seed investing

Nipun, being a founder, always wanted to understand the VC perspective & their way of assessing founders, markets & products.

After talking to the partners, VH seemed like the right fit to Nipun. Also, the opportunity to use AI to productise/automate the different aspects of a VCs job seemed like the right intersection between investing & product.

inspiration

Quentin Tarantino, Eminem & Steve Jobs for how remarkably unique they are. The fact that they became successful on their own terms is pretty amazing to me.

other interests

Love mapping history to unsuccessfully predict the future. Hardcore movie snob who loves quoting from cult classics. Music aficionado. Foodie.

relationship