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title: "Nitesh Gupta | LinkedIn Profile"
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# Nitesh Gupta | LinkedIn Profile

Sign in to view Nitesh’s full profile Nitesh can introduce you to 4 people at Strobe Labs Email or phone Password Show Forgot password? Sign in Sign in with Email or New to LinkedIn? Join now By clicking Continue to join or sign in, you agree to LinkedIn’s User Agreement , Privacy Policy , and Cookie Policy . Nitesh Gupta Sign in to view Nitesh’s full profile Nitesh can introduce you to 4 people at Strobe Labs Email or phone Password Show Forgot password? Sign in Sign in with Email or New to LinkedIn? Join now By clicking Continue to join or sign in, you agree to LinkedIn’s User Agreement , Privacy Policy , and Cookie Policy . New York, New York, United States Contact Info Sign in to view Nitesh’s full profile Nitesh can introduce you to 4 people at Strobe Labs Email or phone Password Show Forgot password? Sign in Sign in with Email or New to LinkedIn? Join now By clicking Continue to join or sign in, you agree to LinkedIn’s User Agreement , Privacy Policy , and Cookie Policy . 2K followers 500+ connections See your mutual connections View mutual connections with Nitesh Nitesh can introduce you to 4 people at Strobe Labs Email or phone Password Show Forgot password? Sign in Sign in with Email or New to LinkedIn? Join now By clicking Continue to join or sign in, you agree to LinkedIn’s User Agreement , Privacy Policy , and Cookie Policy . Join to view profile Message Sign in to view Nitesh’s full profile Nitesh can introduce you to 4 people at Strobe Labs Email or phone Password Show Forgot password? Sign in Sign in with Email or New to LinkedIn? Join now By clicking Continue to join or sign in, you agree to LinkedIn’s User Agreement , Privacy Policy , and Cookie Policy . Strobe Labs Tufts University Report this profile Activity Follow Sign in to view Nitesh’s full profile Nitesh can introduce you to 4 people at Strobe Labs Email or phone Password Show Forgot password? Sign in Sign in with Email or New to LinkedIn? Join now By clicking Continue to join or sign in, you agree to LinkedIn’s User Agreement , Privacy Policy , and Cookie Policy . I started a Substack so I can rant about whatever is on my mind and later laugh at all the takes I got wrong. In the first piece, I write about what… I started a Substack so I can rant about whatever is on my mind and later laugh at all the takes I got wrong. In the first piece, I write about what… Liked by Nitesh Gupta Today we're announcing Ground: The Money Infrastructure Company that makes onchain finance easy, accessible and embeddable, supercharging all finance… Today we're announcing Ground: The Money Infrastructure Company that makes onchain finance easy, accessible and embeddable, supercharging all finance… Liked by Nitesh Gupta I’m proud to announce our $65M Series C, led by Insight Partners with participation by existing investors Madrona and Pruven Capital, bringing us to… I’m proud to announce our $65M Series C, led by Insight Partners with participation by existing investors Madrona and Pruven Capital, bringing us to… Liked by Nitesh Gupta Join now to see all activity Experience & Education *]:mb-0 text-[18px] text-color-text leading-regular group-hover:underline font-semibold"> Strobe Labs *]:mb-0 not-first-middot leading-[1.75]"> ********** * *** *]:mb-0 [&>*]:text-md [&>*]:text-color-text-low-emphasis"> *]:mb-0 text-[18px] text-color-text leading-regular group-hover:underline font-semibold"> ***** *]:mb-0 not-first-middot leading-[1.75]"> **** ** ********* ************ *]:mb-0 [&>*]:text-md [&>*]:text-color-text-low-emphasis"> *]:mb-0 text-[18px] text-color-text leading-regular group-hover:underline font-semibold"> ***** *]:mb-0 not-first-middot leading-[1.75]"> ****** ******** ******** *]:mb-0 [&>*]:text-md [&>*]:text-color-text-low-emphasis"> *]:mb-0 text-[18px] text-color-text leading-regular group-hover:underline font-semibold"> ***** ********** *]:mb-0 not-first-middot leading-[1.75]"> ********** ****** *********************** ******* undefined *]:mb-0 [&>*]:text-md [&>*]:text-color-text-low-emphasis"> View Nitesh’s full experience See their title, tenure and more. Sign in Welcome back Email or phone Password Show Forgot password? Sign in or By clicking Continue to join or sign in, you agree to LinkedIn’s User Agreement , Privacy Policy , and Cookie Policy . New to LinkedIn? Join now or By clicking Continue to join or sign in, you agree to LinkedIn’s User Agreement , Privacy Policy , and Cookie Policy . Courses *]:mb-0 text-[18px] text-color-text leading-regular group-hover:underline font-semibold"> Algorithms *]:mb-0 not-first-middot leading-[1.75]"> Comp 160 *]:mb-0 [&>*]:text-md [&>*]:text-color-text-low-emphasis"> *]:mb-0 text-[18px] text-color-text leading-regular group-hover:underline font-semibold"> Computer Security *]:mb-0 not-first-middot leading-[1.75]"> Comp 116 *]:mb-0 [&>*]:text-md [&>*]:text-color-text-low-emphasis"> *]:mb-0 text-[18px] text-color-text leading-regular group-hover:underline font-semibold"> Cryptography *]:mb-0 not-first-middot leading-[1.75]"> Comp 165 *]:mb-0 [&>*]:text-md [&>*]:text-color-text-low-emphasis"> *]:mb-0 text-[18px] text-color-text leading-regular group-hover:underline font-semibold"> Data Structures *]:mb-0 not-first-middot leading-[1.75]"> Comp 15 *]:mb-0 [&>*]:text-md [&>*]:text-color-text-low-emphasis"> *]:mb-0 text-[18px] text-color-text leading-regular group-hover:underline font-semibold"> Databases *]:mb-0 not-first-middot leading-[1.75]"> Comp 115 *]:mb-0 [&>*]:text-md [&>*]:text-color-text-low-emphasis"> *]:mb-0 text-[18px] text-color-text leading-regular group-hover:underline font-semibold"> Machine Structure & Assembly Programming *]:mb-0 not-first-middot leading-[1.75]"> Comp 40 *]:mb-0 [&>*]:text-md [&>*]:text-color-text-low-emphasis"> *]:mb-0 text-[18px] text-color-text leading-regular group-hover:underline font-semibold"> Networks *]:mb-0 not-first-middot leading-[1.75]"> Comp 112 *]:mb-0 [&>*]:text-md [&>*]:text-color-text-low-emphasis"> *]:mb-0 text-[18px] text-color-text leading-regular group-hover:underline font-semibold"> Web Programming *]:mb-0 not-first-middot leading-[1.75]"> Comp 20 *]:mb-0 [&>*]:text-md [&>*]:text-color-text-low-emphasis"> Projects *]:mb-0 text-[18px] text-color-text leading-regular group-hover:underline font-semibold"> Stockular - (Winner of Bloomberg and Mashery API Prizes) *]:mb-0 not-first-middot leading-[1.75]"> Sep 2014 *]:mb-0 [&>*]:text-md [&>*]:text-color-text-low-emphasis"> Stockular is a Chrome extension that highlights S&P 500 company names and provides real-time stock quotes for those companies. It also has an Oculus Rift virtual reality visualizer built in. It won the Bloomberg and Mashery API prizes at MHacks Fall 2014. Other creators See project More activity by Nitesh Friends - I am excited to announce that we've closed a $75M Gutter Capital Fund III and TODAY we are opening up applications for Elbow Grease II… Friends - I am excited to announce that we've closed a $75M Gutter Capital Fund III and TODAY we are opening up applications for Elbow Grease II… Liked by Nitesh Gupta We’ve just raised $175M in a round co-led by Paradigm, a16z crypto, and Ribbit Capital, the largest raise in decentralized finance history. Credit is… We’ve just raised $175M in a round co-led by Paradigm, a16z crypto, and Ribbit Capital, the largest raise in decentralized finance history. Credit is… Liked by Nitesh Gupta Pleased to host Kai Fong Chng again - who is shaping Singapore’s AI policy - and Tan Su Shan, CEO of DBS, the largest bank in Southeast Asia. We had… Pleased to host Kai Fong Chng again - who is shaping Singapore’s AI policy - and Tan Su Shan, CEO of DBS, the largest bank in Southeast Asia. We had… Liked by Nitesh Gupta Thank you to the founders who have trusted me and Foundation Capital so far! Also a big thank you to top wingmen Rodolfo Gonzalez and Steve… Thank you to the founders who have trusted me and Foundation Capital so far! Also a big thank you to top wingmen Rodolfo Gonzalez and Steve… Liked by Nitesh Gupta Excited to finally share that Park Rangers Capital 🏕️ quietly closed our first fund earlier this year: a $4.3M debut fund backed by 130 LPs. Huge… Excited to finally share that Park Rangers Capital 🏕️ quietly closed our first fund earlier this year: a $4.3M debut fund backed by 130 LPs. Huge… Liked by Nitesh Gupta RW3 Ventures has officially rebranded to Raptor Digital, reflecting our expanded focus and close partnership with Raptor Group. Through this… RW3 Ventures has officially rebranded to Raptor Digital, reflecting our expanded focus and close partnership with Raptor Group. Through this… Liked by Nitesh Gupta I am hiring full-stack engineers that want to work on research management and/or AI systems for a hedge fund. - You'll get direct access to… I am hiring full-stack engineers that want to work on research management and/or AI systems for a hedge fund. - You'll get direct access to… Liked by Nitesh Gupta Just wrapped the most incredible 1st Park Rangers Capital 🏕️ AGM today! We gathered ~80 of our LPs, co-investor friends, & founders in the… Just wrapped the most incredible 1st Park Rangers Capital 🏕️ AGM today! We gathered ~80 of our LPs, co-investor friends, & founders in the… Liked by Nitesh Gupta It is crazy to even be saying this...but I am now a Director of Engineering at Rippling! I would love to give a shout out to Malte Buecken, Daniel… It is crazy to even be saying this...but I am now a Director of Engineering at Rippling! I would love to give a shout out to Malte Buecken, Daniel… Liked by Nitesh Gupta Last year, we at Abstract meaningfully invested in Polymarket's previously unannounced Series C at a $350m valuation. They just raised the largest… Last year, we at Abstract meaningfully invested in Polymarket's previously unannounced Series C at a $350m valuation. They just raised the largest… Liked by Nitesh Gupta I am hiring for frontend software engineers for a role working directly alongside fundamental investors. What we are looking for: - 4+ years of… I am hiring for frontend software engineers for a role working directly alongside fundamental investors. What we are looking for: - 4+ years of… Liked by Nitesh Gupta Hopped on a call today with a very successful exited founder (sold biz for 9 figures) who is raising a preseed He’s offering to let me in because… Hopped on a call today with a very successful exited founder (sold biz for 9 figures) who is raising a preseed He’s offering to let me in because… Liked by Nitesh Gupta I've been spending more time on stablecoins lately. 💰 Largely because a healthy majority of our clients support cross-border payments but also… I've been spending more time on stablecoins lately. 💰 Largely because a healthy majority of our clients support cross-border payments but also… Liked by Nitesh Gupta Excited to share that Spindl is joining Coinbase to build the future of onchain advertising! Thanks to everyone - colleagues, mentors, friends… Excited to share that Spindl is joining Coinbase to build the future of onchain advertising! Thanks to everyone - colleagues, mentors, friends… Liked by Nitesh Gupta ten years ago I wrote my first academic paper - an embodied conversational agent that would answer users' questions and chat live about what it saw… ten years ago I wrote my first academic paper - an embodied conversational agent that would answer users' questions and chat live about what it saw… Liked by Nitesh Gupta View Nitesh’s full profile See who you know in common Get introduced Contact Nitesh directly Join to view full profile Other similar profiles Marc Pfeiffer Marc Pfeiffer iCapital 2K followers New York City Metropolitan Area View Profile Max Rudometkin Max Rudometkin FalconX 5K followers San Francisco, CA View Profile Mo Negm Mo Negm Amazon 4K followers Seattle, WA View Profile Zhouxu Long Zhouxu Long Google 7K followers Berlin View Profile Peng W. Peng W. Luma 2K followers United States View Profile Timothée Givois Timothée Givois Airbnb 3K followers Miami, FL View Profile Shuochen H. Shuochen H. 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My latest newsletter explores this thesis through three signals: the "weaponized transgression" of Cluey, the AI-driven materials science in Nature, and the architectural critiques of Kenneth Stanley. Bet the loop, not the layer :) You can read the full analysis here: https://lnkd.in/ggdVGEda #vibecap #vibecapital #vc #deeptech #AI #cluely 4 1 Comment Tom Lazay Companyon Ventures • 5K followers An emerging VC manager's fundraising lessons... the first two funds are a grind. Now, we’re on our third fund, it feels like we’re almost over the hump, but fundraising never gets easy for most of us. I want to congratulate the emerging VC firms presenting at this year’s RAISE Global conference. As former RAISE presenters, and (soon-to-graduate) emerging managers, we thought we’d share this LP Translator, a lighthearted guide to decoding what LPs really mean during the fundraising process. Fellow GPs, which ones did I miss? 👇 The LP Translator 📣 "Let’s stay in touch.” Translation: We’re not interested. “We want to see your track record develop.” Translation: Either we don't believe in your strategy, or we’re focused on managers with more buzz. “We’re not allocating to new managers right now.” Translation: We’re not allocating to you right now. "Show us your deals so we can get to know you.” Translation: We’d like free co-invests if you get something hot. “We need to see more DPI before we commit.” Translation: We don’t really understand VC, but we’re pretending to. “We’re fully allocated for this year; check in early next year.” Translation: Next year we’ll still be fully allocated (just not to you). “Call us before final close.” Translation: I’m too polite to say no at this time, so I’m kicking the can down the road. “Your fund is too small.” Translation: Okay, that one might actually be true (for some LPs). “We went through your data room and want to meet face-to-face.” Translation: We’re genuinely interested, keep going! “Can you send us your LPA for signature?” Translation: Let’s go! 🚀 -------------------------- Fundraising is a long game, longer than we ever expected. We're now seeing how LP relationships are built across several funds, not several months. If they’re investing time to learn about you and your strategy, that’s your best signal of real interest. #emergingmanager #venturecapital #LP #RAISEGLOBAL 52 1 Comment Peter Harris RAF • 4K followers Early fund success isn't just momentum. It can be a mathematical lock. Consider the following math problem, known as Polya's Urn: - Start with an urn containing one red ball and one blue ball. - Draw a ball at random, return it to the urn. - Whichever color you drew, add one more ball of the same color to the urn. - Repeat 100 times. Now think about this question: if your first two draws are red balls, what’s the probability by 100 draws that the fraction of red balls in the urn is below 50%? Let’s walk through the math... Before your first draw, the probability of red or blue is 50%. The expected value of the mix over time is also 50/50. Now draw your first ball. Draw red, put it back and add another red ball. The Urn is now 2 red, 1 blue. Next-draw probability for red: 67%. Expected long-run red rate: also 67%. Draw again and also draw red. The urn is now 3 red, 1 blue. Next-draw success rate: 75%. Long-run expectation: 75%. The fraction of red balls in Pólya's urn is what mathematicians call a martingale — a process whose expected future value always equals its current value. Wherever the early draws push you becomes the system's new expectation for where it will end up. Early draws have massive influence. The long-run destination is being written in the first few chapters. Now let’s extend this to fund performance. Imagine that each draw represents the performance of an investment. Red means success; blue bad result. Follow the same draw mechanics and you can quickly see that a couple of early successes start to heavily tilt your long-term probabilities. Specifically, if the first two balls you draw are red (successes), the probability that after 100 draws you are less than 50% red (successful) goes to only 12.5%. In just the first two moves, you have greatly shifted the eventual end state probability. This is often what plays out in VC. Ramana Nanda at Harvard and Olav Sorenson at Yale studied investment-level data across hundreds of VC firms in 2020 and found that each additional IPO among a firm's first ten investments predicted an 8% higher IPO rate on all subsequent investments. The mechanism wasn't superior investment-picking. Early success improved reputation expanded co-investment networks, and unlocked deal flow that wasn't previously available. Each success literally added a red ball to the urn. The persistence data confirms the pattern. Harris, Jenkinson, and Kaplan at Virginia, Oxford, and Chicago found that top-quartile VC firms repeated top-quartile performance 48% of the time: nearly double the 25% you'd expect if outcomes were independent. Bottom-quartile firms stayed bottom quartile 40% of the time. Once the urn tilts, it tends to stay tilted. Most models treat portfolio outcomes as independent draws from a fixed distribution. Pólya's urn shows why that's wrong. In systems where success breeds access and failure breeds friction, early results don't wash out. They compound. Cheers! 12 4 Comments Robert Abalos Validate Venture Partners… • 2K followers Excellent analysis on a key strategic decision many founders give little thought to during formation. Everything this poster says is absolutely true and their advice is rock solid. I would add one more tip. Some founders are secretive by nature, especially given the real world experience of their industry, which tempers them on expectations and predictive behaviors. Don’t fight the unwritten industry rules when building a startup, or try to reinvent the wheel. Certain industrial practices exist for a GOOOOOOOD reason. Founders, take the hint. 2 1 Comment JT Benton 9point8 Collective • 8K followers Here's a problem we see all the time in early studios: they copy-paste a VC fund's operating cadence and wonder why nothing feels right. Weekly deal flow reviews. Portfolio monitoring calls. Valuation-focused LP reports. All borrowed wholesale from a fund playbook. But a VC fund's primary activity is deal selection -- source, evaluate, check, board, wait. A studio's primary activity is venture creation -- generate, validate, recruit, build, launch. Those are fundamentally different jobs. When you run a studio like a fund, things break in specific ways: Your meetings are wrong. You're reviewing deal flow instead of venture build progress -- milestones, blockers, resource allocation. The work is building, not sourcing. Your team is wrong. Studios need builders at every level -- operators, designers, engineers. Not just investment professionals. You can't build companies with a team designed to pick them. 📉 Your metrics are wrong. Entry valuations and markups don't tell you anything useful. Cost-to-build-a-venture, time-to-market, and venture survival at 18 months -- those are the numbers that actually measure whether the studio is working. Your LP reporting is wrong. Report operational progress -- what's building, what's launching, what's been killed and why. Not just portfolio movements. Here's the lesson -- the studios that struggle most are the ones that adopted VC templates without modifying them for fundamentally different work. The portfolio companies don't exist until the studio creates them. Not a fund that happens to build things. A builder that happens to have a fund. The operating rhythm should reflect which one is primary. 🎯 10 1 Comment Neil Tewari Conversion • 20K followers One of the biggest mistakes I see founders make before $5M ARR is caring too much about average opinions. Average customers do not build $1B businesses. When we look at NPS, the formula is simple: Promoters (9–10 ratings) minus Detractors (0–6 ratings). The 7s and 8s don’t count. They’re neutral. They don’t love you enough to share, and they don’t dislike you enough to leave. They’re just fine. And that’s the real trap. Great products are built for outliers. The ones who can’t live without what you’ve built. If your product is a 10/10 for a small group of people, you can build from there. They’ll tell their friends. They’ll stick around when things break. They’ll root for you to win. 7/10's churn. They don't give great referrals. They don't advocate for your software during budget cuts. The same logic applies everywhere: • When hiring, look for the people who light up about your mission • When fundraising, find the investors who immediately “get it” • When dating (yes, even then), you don’t need to be liked by everyone. Just loved by the right one This is why you need to refine your ICP. Most founders make the mistake of trying to serve everyone at once: SMB and enterprise, growth and sales and content teams, startups and Fortune 500s, tech and non-tech companies. Every attempt to please everyone turns more 9s and 10s into 5s. Find your core audience. Solve their pain better than anyone else. Get a small group obsessed before worrying about everyone else. You can worry about TAM after $5M ARR. Any ICP can get you there to start. But only one that truly loves your product will get you started. 45 7 Comments Show more posts Show fewer posts Explore top content on LinkedIn Find curated posts and insights for relevant topics all in one place. View top content Add new skills with these courses 15m A Standalone Project: Practice Blockchain Security through Five Challenges by Infosec 1h 7m Building Scalable Microservices with TypeScript and Node.js 1h 59m Express Essentials: Build Powerful Web Apps with Node.js See all courses