Partner
Nikhil Pooviah
Venture Partner, Blacknova VC
- Firm
- Blacknova VC
- Title
- Venture Partner
- Role
- Venture partner
- Known as
- Investor
Record updated 21 September 2026
About
Nik is a medical doctor turned entrepreneur based in the United States. He currently works as the co-founder of digital health startup Elly (backed by Google, Snap, Bayer and Morgan Stanley). He practiced and trained as a Radiation Oncology physician in Sydney, Australia for 8 years prior to founding his first Australian startup CancerAid (backed Cedars-Sinai Health System and Techstars). Nik has experience building and operating digital health startups from Australia and scaling them into overseas markets. Having previously been successful on Shark Tank, he also excels at pitching, storytelling and refining the value proposition for startups. Nik plans to leverage his wide US investor network (1K+) to help our portfolio companies expand into the US market and beyond.
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