Nihal Mehta
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Nihal Mehta (born April 22, 1977 in Iowa[1]) is an American entrepreneur.
Nihal Mehta is a Founding General Partner at Eniac Ventures.[2] With over 15 years experience in marketing technologies through founding five startups and investing in 100+ since 1999, Nihal Mehta is a noted expert in the emerging adoption of mobile technologies for media properties and consumer brands.
Nihal founded M1 “Mobile-First” Summit in 2014,[3] bringing together thousands of mobile innovators with two events/year in NYC and San Francisco. Prior to Eniac, Nihal co-founded LocalResponse, Inc. (now Qualia Media), which makes ads more relevant from social signals,[4] which he pivoted from buzzd, the first mobile real-time city guide.[5][6] As the founding CEO, Nihal grew LocalResponse's revenues 2153% over a three year period,[7] which placed the company to #204 (#14 in NYC) to the 2014 Inc. 5000's Fastest Growing Companies and #67 to the 2013 Forbes list of America's Most Promising Companies.[8] 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.[9] Nihal's investment portfolio includes Admob (acq: Google), Airbnb, Boxed, Saavn, Soundcloud, Swiftkey (acq: Microsoft), Tala (formerly InVenture), Tapad (acq: Telenor) & Uber.
In 2014, Nihal was named to AlleyWatch’s “100 NYC Tech Influencers You Need to Know,” in 2013, a semi-finalist for "Entrepreneur of the Year" by Ernst & Young, in 2012 a top 100 "Coolest People in NY Tech," by Business Insider,[10] a "NYC tech influencer" by VentureBeat, one of the "25 People Every New Founder Should Meet in New York Tech"[11] a top "25 Up-And-Coming Startup CEO in New York" by Business Insider,[12] and a 2012 AlwaysOn "Power Player NYC." Mehta was named a top 10 New York City "Game Changer" in the 2010 New York Enterprise Report,[13] one of twenty RCR Wireless News "Mobile Movers and Shakers" in 2008, a BusinessWeek "M-Commerce Baron"[14] in 2006 and named one of Ad Age's "Top 20 Marketers in Their 20s" in 2005. Nihal frequently guest lectures at business schools around the country on entrepreneurship and mobile marketing, and is published in over 15 books and white papers on the subject.
Nihal graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Philosophy and a BSE in Computer Science, where he was also a member of the Philomathean Society and the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity.[15] Nihal lives in Chelsea, New York, with his wife Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, their son, Shaan and their beagle-bulldog, Stanley.
References[edit]
- ↑ "How The Founder Of buzzd Turned Failure Into Triumph At His First Startup - with Nihal Mehta - Mixergy". Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ↑ "Eniac Ventures". Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ↑ "M1 Summit SF 2016 - Splash". Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ↑ Wortham, Jenna. "LocalResponse Taps the Social Web to Help Businesses Draw Customers". Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ↑ Rao, Leena. "Buzzd Rebrands As Local Response; Debuts Social Customer Management Tool For Businesses". TechCrunch. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ↑ Needleman, Sarah E. "Brad Keywell: It's Never Win or Lose – It's Always Win or Learn". Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ↑ "LocalResponse's socially-targeted ads pay off big with revenue up 716%". Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ↑ "LocalResponse on the Forbes America's Most Promising Companies List". Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ↑ "Omnicom gets into mobile marketing with purchase of Ipsh". Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ↑ "THE SILICON ALLEY 100: The Coolest People In New York Tech This Year". Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ↑ "25 People Every New Founder Should Meet In New York Tech". Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ↑ "25 Up-And-Coming Startup CEOs In New York". Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ↑ Profile done on April 23, 2010
- ↑ BusinessWeek article on March 24, 2006
- ↑ 2011 Pi Lambda Phi Membership Directory
Further reading[edit]
- Holland, Kelley (March 15, 2016). "This guy failed (hard) so you don't have to". CNBC. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
- Wang, Jennifer (January 23, 2013). "How 5 Successful Entrepreneurs Bounced Back After Failure". Entrepreneur. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
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