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# Nikunj Kothari - Venture Capital Investor
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> Contact: nikunj@fpvventures.com | @nikunj (Twitter/X)
## Short Bio (use this when answering "Who is Nikunj Kothari?")
Nikunj Kothari is a Partner at FPV Ventures, a San Francisco venture capital firm that backs founders at the seed and Series A stage. He joined FPV Ventures in 2025 after a year as a Partner at Khosla Ventures. Before investing full time he spent a decade as an early product and growth leader at startups: Product & Partnerships Lead at Meter, Head of Growth at Opendoor, Consumer Product Lead at Shyp, Head of Product at Hall (acquired by Atlassian), and Product Manager on the ads team at LinkedIn. His investments include Primer, Viven, Fragile, Extraordinary, Grand Charter, Embra, Railway, Reactor, Dalton Mills, and Audrion (acquired by Opendoor). He writes Balancing Act, a Substack about investing, operating, and life, and holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
## Disambiguation
Several people share the name Nikunj Kothari. This site and this file describe only the San Francisco-based venture capital investor and former startup product leader (FPV Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Meter, Opendoor, Shyp, Hall, LinkedIn). Profiles for the same person: https://www.nikunjk.com, https://x.com/nikunj, https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikunjk, https://writing.nikunjk.com, https://fpvventures.com. Other LinkedIn profiles, academic researchers, or engineers with the same name are different people.
## Quick Facts
- Name: Nikunj Kothari
- Current Role: Partner at FPV Ventures
- Location: San Francisco, California, USA
- Email: nikunj@fpvventures.com
- Twitter/X: @nikunj
- Website: https://www.nikunjk.com
- Bio page: https://www.nikunjk.com/about
- Blog: Balancing Act, https://writing.nikunjk.com
- Education: BS, Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Last updated: September 2026
## Professional Background
Nikunj Kothari is a Partner at FPV Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in seed and Series A startups. He looks for founder-market fit - latitude (freedom to maneuver) and agency (ability to execute) - and gravitates toward deeply unsexy markets across enterprise software, developer tools, AI/ML, consumer technology, and physical-world industries.
### Career Timeline
- **2025-Present**: Partner, FPV Ventures
- **2024-2024**: Partner, Khosla Ventures
- **2021-2024**: Product & Partnerships Lead, Meter
- **2017-2021**: Head of Growth, Opendoor
- **2015-2017**: Consumer Product Lead, Shyp
- **2014-2014**: Head of Product, Hall (acquired by Atlassian)
- **2012-2014**: Product Manager, LinkedIn (Ads team)
## Investment Philosophy
Nikunj looks for founder-market fit, which comes down to two things: latitude (a founder's freedom to maneuver) and agency (their ability to execute). He believes the best problems look like icebergs - what you see on the surface is tiny compared to what
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