Nimble Partners
Status
ACTIVE
Global HQ
San Francisco, United States
Countries of investment
- United States
Investment stages
- Seed
- Series A
- Series B
- Series C
- Growth
Industries
- Software
- Consumer Tech
- Enterprise
- Fintech
- Healthcare
- Artificial Intelligence
About
Nimble Partners is a San Francisco-based multi-stage venture capital platform led by John Burbank and a team with decades of combined experience. The firm operates across three strategies: venture funds backing emerging seed and early-stage managers, growth investments in breakout companies with proven traction, and secondaries acquiring stakes in late-stage market leaders. Several team members joined from predecessor firm Passport Capital.
Nimble Partners is a San Francisco-based multi-stage venture capital platform led by John Burbank and a team with decades of combined experience. The firm operates across three strategies: venture funds backing emerging seed and early-stage managers, growth investments in breakout companies with proven traction, and secondaries acquiring stakes in late-stage market leaders. Several team members joined from predecessor firm Passport Capital.
Investment Thesis
Nimble Partners focuses on a stage-optimized multi-stage strategy, partnering with investors and innovators across the full lifecycle of private technology companies through fund commitments, direct investments, and secondary transactions.
Manager's Experience
Nimble Partners is led by Founder and General Partner John Burbank, a long-time macro investor who previously founded Passport Capital in 2000. John brings decades of experience investing at the intersection of macro trends and technology disruption, with an MBA from Stanford GSB and a BA from Duke. He is joined by Partners Ken Wallace (formerly Managing Director at Industry Ventures) and Sumeet (16+ years in venture, growth, and secondary investing including prior roles at OnePrime Capital, LUMA Capital Partners, Intel Capital, and Goldman Sachs).
Team
John Burbank - Founder General Partner
Ken Wallace - Partner
Sumeet Singh - Partner
Julie Phillips - General Counsel CCO
Seth Fischer - Portfolio Manager
Michelle Ruggeri - CFO
Portfolio
Voyage Foods
Canopy Connect
OneSignal
Gametime
BasiGo
Wave Sports + Entertainment
CoreStory
Photomath