Abhishek focuses on investments and fund management along with investor relationships. He also represents the Fund as a Board Member in portfolio companies. Before co-founding 1950 Ventures, he founded Joulon, a buy and build platform funded by KKR for the energy sector and has served as an Executive Chairman of Anuva’s Board. He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur) and has an Executive MBA from Harvard Business School.

Nish focuses on business development, investor relationships and capital solutions. Prior to co-founding 1950 Ventures, Nish was a Partner at Nekton Capital. Before joining Nekton Capital, he was at York Capital from 2008 to 2021 serving as the global co-head of business development since 2016. Nish also served at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in their Equities divisions prior to joining the hedge fund industry. He graduated from Cornell University.

Pulkit looks after the technology due diligence and post-investment engagement and assessment of technology development of portfolio companies. He also provides access to his network in technology R&D globally. Pulkit is an Asst. Professor at MIT where he directs the AI lab focusing on robotics, deep learning and reinforcement learning. He also co-founded SafelyYou Inc. in 2015, a company that leveraged computer vision to reduce falls in dementia patients. Pulkit graduated from Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur) and has a PhD from UC Berkeley.