Pratik Poddar

Partner at Nexus Venture Partners

Pratik Poddar is an investor and board member at Liquidnitro Games, a position he has held since 2023. He is also a partner at Nexus Venture Partners, where he has been involved in various roles since 2015, including vice president and principal. His investment interests span multiple sectors, including consumer technology, web3, education, and healthcare startups.1 2 3

Before his venture capital career, Poddar worked as a quant analyst and algorithmic trader at Morgan Stanley and as a private equity analyst at Blackstone. He holds a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. In addition to his work at Liquidnitro Games, he is involved with several other startups as an investor and board member, including Kratos Gaming Network and Crunch.2 3

Outside of his professional life, Poddar enjoys traveling, watching movies, reading business literature, and solving math puzzles.2

Highlights

Nov 18 · twitter

NVIDIA AI Summit: Fireside Chat between Sh. Mukesh Ambani and Jensen Huang https://t.co/xi33jhmqJK

A few weeks late to watch this, but phenomenal chat between MDA and Jensen. Future of India and AI is bright!

Nov 18 · twitter

Small but mighty!

"77% of enterprise AI usage are using small models."

https://t.co/up2Aieo8Ok

Jun 16 · Forbes India

Westland and Pratilipi found each other a year ago. Can they make it work? - Forbes India

Sep 7 · Entrepreneur

Ex-Gaana CEO And PropTiger Co-founder Prashan Agarwal ... - Entrepreneur

Experience

Partner at Nexus Venture Partners

Principal at Nexus Venture Partners (Jan 2020 - Jan 2022), Vice President at Nexus Venture Partners (Apr 2017 - Jan 2020), Investment Associate at Nexus Venture Partners (Apr 2015 - Apr 2017), Co-founder and CTO at Scatter (May 2014 - Mar 2015), Founder at Content R Square (Sep 2013 - Mar 2015)