Nimesh Shah
Managing Director

Nimesh has over 20 years of venture capital, Wall Street, and operating experience, with an emphasis on working with growth-oriented life sciences companies.

Most recently, Nimesh was a Managing Director at Hercules Capital, where he was involved in debt and equity financings with a number of leading life sciences companies, both public and private. Prior to joining Hercules, Nimesh served as Chief Business Officer of Fractyl Labs, a clinical-stage company developing innovative technologies to address metabolic disease. Previously, Nimesh was a partner of Domain Associates, a leading health care venture capital firm, and led that firm’s efforts in medical devices. During his time at Domain, Nimesh was involved with and/or served on the boards of numerous portfolio companies, including several that were acquired and/or executed public offerings. Earlier in his career Nimesh served in various roles at venture capital firm Cutlass Capital and investment bank Alex. Brown (now Deutsche Bank).

Nimesh holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University.