Nexus VP invested a $1M seed in Postman pre-incorporation
Jishnu Bhattacharjee · Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Director, Nexus VP on the success recipe of Druva and Postman · Oct 26, 2020 · at 22:00
Nexus Venture Partners MD Jishnu Bhattacharjee describes discovering and leading the initial seed round in API platform Postman.
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“We did the first, very first investment when it happened, it was just a seed. In fact, the company was not even incorporated, if I'm not mistaken. Then they, we put in some seed money. They came in to our office, we're in Bangalore, where they started working in And then kind of like, you know, I mean, one thing led to the other. It was just like, you know, we gave a one million seed”
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