Nandini grew up in New Delhi, India, and moved to Tampa, Florida at the age of fifteen. She graduated from the University of South Florida with a dual degree in Accounting and Finance and was commemorated with the Outstanding Graduate Award. Before joining Counterpart Ventures, she worked in New York City, at one of NYC’s oldest venture funds,  ff Venture Capital, for over 2.5 years where she sourced and ran diligence on early-stage B2B SaaS and consumer tech startups. She also helped manage and support their portfolio of 100+ active startup investments across verticals, geographies, and stages, with fundraising, customer, and hiring intros. Before ffVC, she was a full-time investor at Florida Funders, one of the most active venture capital firms in the Southeast —where she helped make over 17 new investments in B2B SaaS companies across sectors such as Fintech, DevOps, and Future of work, among others. During her college career, she founded Samagreen, a medical device start-up that was incubated as part of the Clinton Global Initiative University program, and also founded Emerging Bulls Consulting, a services-based nonprofit initiative for social enterprises during COVID-19.

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She also previously worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in their audit practice and Goldman Sachs within their Controllers division, on Wall Street. Passionate about financial autonomy, she spent a summer in India gathering ethnographic data for her undergraduate thesis while interning with the Centre for Social Research, India’s leading women’s rights organization.

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Nandini is based in San Francisco and is focused on helping find the next generation of groundbreaking innovators and supporting the rest of the team and broader portfolio companies. She enjoys trying new restaurants, attending live entertainment events, traveling, and playing amateur poker.