Nihal Mehta

Founding General Partner, ENIAC Ventures

New York City

Nihal is a Founding General Partner at Eniac Ventures, the first seed stage venture fund focusing exclusively on mobile technologies. Prior to Eniac, Nihal co-founded LocalResponse, Inc., which makes ads more relevant from social signals, a pivot from buzzd, the first mobile real-time city guide. Prior to LocalResponse, Nihal founded ipsh!, one of the first full-service mobile marketing agencies in 2001, which was acquired by Omnicom (NYSE: OMC) in 2005.

Nihal's investment portfolio includes Admob (sold to Google), Airbnb, HotelTonight, Swiftkey, Tapad & Uber.

Nihal’s work in the startup ecosystem, both as an investor and a founder, has led to several recognitions. Business Insider named him as one of the "25 People Every New Founder Should Meet in New York Tech," was included on the list of "Top 25 Up-and-Coming Startup CEOs in New York," in 2012, and was named one of the "Top 10 NYC Game Changers" in a 2010 New York Enterprise Report.