Nikhil Basu Trivedi

Co-Founder & General Partner at Footwork (@footworkvc)

[Nikhil Basu Trivedi @nbt]

Announcing our new firm and first fund: Footwork (@footworkvc). https://t.co/eFiJkv5Cda

[John Dean @johndeanl]

We are releasing WeatherMesh-6 today, a huge step forward in weather forecasting.

Its a fully end-to-end AI-based weather model. Observations in, weather forecasts out.

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@JayaGup10 @swaritjoshipura @_shreya_s actually laughed out loud @nikesharora 🤣

[Nikhil Basu Trivedi @nbt]

@CommitCapital excited for you and the founders you'll back!

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@FDavidsonT would love to try!

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@rexsalisbury i count 11 people in their 30s on Midas and Midas Seed:
@YasminRazavi @daniel_levine @saranormous @LucasSwisher1 @ramtinnaimi @andrew__reed @Mike_Robinson10 @reidRMC @beyroutey @sabrinahahn @nbt

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@tjparker https://t.co/KhlaRAF691

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The best old place of all 🧡🖤

[Brandon 🎉 @brandonhli]

Hiring in data, marketing, and sales

Power is in a special spot: 8 figures of revenue, grew 5x last year and will 3x this year

We have ~1/3 of the headcount of startups our size which means everyone has nonlinear contribution

We are building the operational infrastructure to run medical research

If you are excited about AI + Bio but nervous about the clinical trial bottleneck then DM me :)

[Anything @anything]

BREAKING: Apple is no longer the final boss

every app you vibe code on Anything now ships to the Play Store too

[Nikhil Basu Trivedi @nbt]

@HarryStebbings ingredients for success i've learned from Jensen:
-unbelievable work ethic
-insatiable love of learning
-real care for the people you work with
-audacity
-optimism

[Nikhil Basu Trivedi @nbt]

@vassallo @andrewdfeldman @cerebras Many, many congrats to you and all involved!

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

lol @GeorgeKurdin great response

[Rohit Kaul @SeekingN0rth]

This is a good way to frame speed, which is perhaps the most discussed term in startup rooms now - an input and not an output.

From @nbt’s substack. Read here: https://t.co/J2hKV0zyd0

[Karine Hsu @karine_hsu]

kinda obsessed with the fact that @canva used to be called "Canvas Chef", it's so cute!!

thank you @nbt for sharing the original Canva deck!!

https://t.co/8dwusx7Ygs

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https://t.co/5L8bX6ymAt

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@lizwandersworld excited for you Liz and team!

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@GeorgeHuSF @FireworksAI_HQ @salesforce very excited for you, George

[Nikhil Basu Trivedi @nbt]

If you’re fortunate as a VC, you have a handful of moments where you meet a founder and within 15 mins you know you have to invest.

I’ve had one of those moments in 2026, meeting @GeorgeKurdin & Joe at @usemonk. Delighted to lead their $25M Series A @footworkvc alongside @AcrewCapital & @btv_vc.

Why did we get so excited to partner with Monk?

1/ The team has built a magical customer experience. Monk is the only AI-native accounts receivable platform in market today. The product automates the invoice-to-cash lifecycle: invoicing, intelligent collections, cash application, and reporting. This is a manual process for most finance teams today — sitting between emails, PDFs, spreadsheets, payment rails, and banks. Monk automates it, saving finance teams time, and enabling businesses to get paid accurately and more quickly.

2/ It’s loved by several forward-thinking AI-native companies. For customers like @ElevenLabs, @tryprofound, and @siro_app, Monk is making the lives of the finance teams, and those around them, so much easier. It simply gets them paid, faster. On average, customers see 40% lower DSO (days sales outstanding), 24% higher collections response rate, and 25+ hours/month saved. The platform typically pays for itself in month one. These are demanding teams operating at the frontier of AI. Delighting them is hard, but in doing so Monk is building a product that can one day be used by every enterprise.

3/ The vision starts with AR but is much bigger. Stripe started with payment processing. Ramp started with corporate cards. Like those two companies, Monk has the opportunity to move beyond its initial wedge to building a broader B2B finance and revenue platform.

4/ It really does all come back to the team. George and Joe have built a small in-person team in NYC with an exceedingly high bar for talent. They are intense. They are mission-driven. They hold nothing sacred as an AI-native company, and realize they must evolve quickly as the capabilities of the models evolve.

If the above resonates, come join us at Monk — we’re hiring across engineering and go-to-market. And if your business can benefit from automating AR, please reach out. https://t.co/kc6nQt73KQ @LaurenKolodny @pitdesi @nbobba

[Nikhil Basu Trivedi @nbt]

@GeorgeKurdin @usemonk @footworkvc @AcrewCapital @btv_vc Could not be more excited to partner with you. Let’s win.