Nish Patel

Nish Patel is the Managing Partner at Inertia Ventures, where he oversees equity relationships across the firm's various institutional co-investment programs. Prior to his current position in venture capital, he served as a General Partner at Gravity Group and the Head of Research and Trading at Fund3. Throughout his career, Patel has directed early-stage capital into several emerging technology startups, building a diverse portfolio that includes recognizable companies such as Betterment and Pipe. He leverages an extensive professional background in investment banking, management consulting, and institutional trading to evaluate prospective deals, while also teaching specialized master classes on machine learning applications for real estate founders. Patel currently focuses his investment strategy on pre-seed through Series B and later funding rounds within the financial technology, artificial intelligence, enterprise software, and commercial space sectors.