Nikhil Nikhil Menon

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Partner at Riverbend Growth · B2B SaaS

Riverbend Growth
Lisbon, Portugal · WET (UTC+0)
14+ years experience
École Polytechnique
English, Portuguese
Advising
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Overview

19 years around startups; now investing in B2B SaaS. Previously an operator for 7 years before investing. Backed 30 founders at pre-seed and seed. Before that: Siemens and H&M Group. I tinker with 3D printers.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on growth engineering
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Crypto token projects
  • Requests to fix your code for free

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
pricingventure capitalgo-to-marketapplied ML
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for first-time founders: B2B SaaS and applied ML

Topics
growth engineering, venture capital, pricing
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Equity
Capacity
One advisory role at a time
Best for
First-time founders

19 years of B2B SaaS. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Lisbon, Portugalgo-to-marketpricingventure capital
Open

Experience

  1. Partner
    Dec 2022 - Present
    Riverbend Growth · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 34 minutes to under 3.
    • Led the migration of 55 services to pricing.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
    Siemens · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Cut p99 latency on the growth services from 727ms to 138ms.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Nov 2018 - Mar 2021
    H&M Group · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Previously an operator for 6 years before investing.
  4. Director of Engineering
    Sep 2016 - Nov 2018
    ASML · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 44 minutes to under 5.
  5. Senior Engineering Manager
    Feb 2013 - Sep 2016
    Siemens · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 17 minutes to under 4.
    • Led the migration of 54 services to pricing.

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Education

  1. École Polytechnique
    Ingénieur, Engineering
    2003 - 2007

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