About This Fund
About Nexus Ventures VIII Nexus Ventures VIII is a $700 million venture capital fund managed by Nexus Venture Partners, one of the most established cross-border early-stage investment firms with a track record spanning nearly two decades in India and the United States. Closing in December 2025 at $700 million, Fund VIII represents the firm's eighth successive vehicle and brings Nexus's total assets under management to $3.2 billion. Menlo Park-based Nexus was founded in 2006 and has consistently backed category-defining companies at their earliest stages—inception, seed, and Series A—across both markets. The majority of Fund VIII's limited partners are returning investors from earlier Nexus funds, underscoring the firm's consistent investment performance and the durability of LP relationships built over nearly twenty years of operation.
Nexus Ventures VIII focuses on artificial intelligence, enterprise software, consumer technology, and fintech—sectors where the firm has deep pattern recognition and a track record of identifying winning companies early. Within AI, the fund targets AI stack innovators, developer platforms and tools, open-source infrastructure, and AI agents as high-conviction sub-themes. Nexus brings a distinctive dual-market perspective, leveraging deep networks in Silicon Valley and India's major technology ecosystems to identify founders building companies with the potential to define new categories globally. The firm's access to early-stage deal flow in India—one of the world's fastest-growing pools of tech talent and startup activity—combined with its ability to support US market entry gives Nexus a structural advantage in sourcing and backing companies that can scale across geographies.
Since its founding in 2006, Nexus has invested in over 130 portfolio companies and achieved more than 30 exits, including multiple IPOs. Portfolio alumni include Postman, Apollo.io, Zepto, MinIO, Fingerprint, Delhivery, Rapido, Firecrawl, and Avoca, spanning enterprise infrastructure, consumer platforms, and AI-native businesses. With Fund VIII, Nexus continues its strategy of providing founders with patient capital, hands-on operational support, and access to a global network from day one of the partnership. The fund's closing reflects sustained demand for the firm's cross-border VC model at a moment when AI is reshaping software development, consumer behavior, and enterprise operations simultaneously across both the US and Indian markets.