About Nivesha Ventures
Nivesha Ventures is a venture capital firm located in San Francisco, United States. As of Aug 2025, Nivesha Ventures has invested in 8 companies. It primarily invests in Seed round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and Enterprise Infrastructure. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of Catalyx space A lot of funds co-invest with Nivesha Ventures, with names like Arka Venture Labs sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Nivesha Ventures has team of 1 people including 1 partners.Key Metrics
Nivesha Ventures' List of Top Investments
Nivesha Ventures has a portfolio of 8 companies. Their most notable investments include HostedAI and HEN.Their portfolio spans across United States and India. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Enterprise Infrastructure and 4 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A stages. Here is the list of top investments by Nivesha Ventures:
1. HostedAI
AI powered platform for cloud computing services. It provides a software platform for multi-tenant GPU resource allocation and management. It offers GPU pooling, configurable overcommit, and task isolation. It supports integration with billing systems and provides a self-service portal. The software is hardware-agnostic and includes features for GPU orchestration and business operations.
Key facts about HostedAI
- Founded Year: 2024
- Location: San Jose (United States)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $23.6M
- Employee Count: 55 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Repeat Ventures, Creandum and 6 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Mar 18, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. HEN
Manufacturer of firefighting nozzles, shutoff valves, and related fire suppression equipment. The company provides products for structural, wildland, foam, and hydraulic ventilation applications. Products include combination smoothbore nozzles, full-ball shutoff valves, and hoseline back pressure increasers. The company also offers master stream systems and real-time GPM measurement tools.
Key facts about HEN
- Founded Year: 2020
- Location: Hayward (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $28.5M
- Employee Count: 100 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: SVB, Z21 Ventures and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Dec 17, 2025, $*****
Provider of autonomous space labs and reusable capsules for in-orbit services. They facilitate experiments and manufacturing in space, managing all aspects from launch to landing. Hosted payloads enable monitoring, testing, and tracking from orbit. Microgravity experiments support advancements in medicine, materials, and biotech. Edge computing allows for data processing in space for real-time results.
Key facts about Catalyx space
- Founded Year: 2024
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $7.22M
- Employee Count: 37 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Outlander VC, Arka Venture Labs and 8 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Aug 08, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Pipeshift
Provider of open source LLM for enterprises. The platform offers tools for LoRA-based fine-tuning, supporting in creating specialized LLMs tailored to specific needs. It streamlines the process of fine-tuning and inferencing, and supports the development and deployment of AI applications.
Key facts about Pipeshift
- Founded Year: 2023
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Annual Revenue: 0 - ₹10 Cr as on Mar 31, 2025
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $3.19M
- Employee Count: 17 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Strategxy Ventures, gradCapital and 15 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Jan 23, 2025, $*****
5. Zime
AI powered sales training platform. It provides sales playbooks into living documents that provide in time actions tailored to specific company needs, product lines, and deal stages. The coach understands the products, use cases, competitors, and customer personas to support sales rep in the sales process.
Key facts about Zime
- Founded Year: 2023
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Seed
- Employee Count: 39 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: peercheque, Z21 Ventures and 2 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Oct 30, 2024, $*****
Nivesha Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
In 2025, it made 5 investments. Its most recent first time investment was in Catalyx space.Nivesha Ventures' Investments by Stage
Nivesha Ventures has made 4 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $4.01M and 1 investment in Series A stage with an average round size of $6M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 4 |
Series A | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Nivesha Ventures' Investments by Sector
Nivesha Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech and FinTech. Notably, it has invested in 7 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 7 Software companies, 7 Tech companies and at least 4 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 4 |
High Tech | 3 |
Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech | 1 |
FinTech | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Nivesha Ventures' Investments by Geography
Nivesha Ventures has made most investments in United States (5), followed by India where it has made 2 investments.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 5 |
India | 2 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Nivesha Ventures' recent investments
Nivesha Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Nivesha Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aug 08, 2025 | United States | Seed | 5455 | [+6] | |
Aug 07, 2025 | United States | Series A | 5437 | [+3] | |
Apr 18, 2025 | United States | Seed | 8293 | [+3] | |
Feb 26, 2025 | United States | Seed | 6144 | ||
Jan 23, 2025 | United States | Seed | 1460 | [+9] |
Team profile of Nivesha Ventures
Nivesha Ventures has a team of 1 member located in United States. Nivesha Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of Nivesha Ventures
Over the past year, 38 investors have co-invested in Nivesha Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Nivesha Ventures: HF0, Founders and 9 others have invested in rounds before Nivesha Ventures. There is 1 company where HF0 has invested before Nivesha Ventures and 1 company where Founders has invested before Nivesha Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of Nivesha Ventures: 25 investors entered a company along with Nivesha Ventures. These include investors like Arka Venture Labs (3 companies).
- Invested after Nivesha Ventures: Creandum (1 company) and Repeat Ventures (1 company) are the investors which have invested in Nivesha Ventures's portfolio after their investments.
Recent News related to Nivesha Ventures
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Catalyx Space Secures $5.4 Mn to Expand Space LogisticsStartupNews•Oct 25, 2025•Catalyx space, Outlander VC, Nivesha Ventures, Arka Venture Labs and 20 others
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Swirepay Closes $3.4M Second Seed FundingFinSMEs•Feb 26, 2025•Swirepay, The Indus Entrepreneurs, Aum Ventures, Q Payments and 2 others
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