"Empowering Those Around Her"

As a leader, Nikki Arora’s strengths remain in simplifying solutions, creatively designing, and developing an authentic brand. Her strategy focuses on influencing investors and driving fundraise, all while implementing and improving systems, processes, and policies. She offers CerraCap Ventures, her strong relationships and alliances with global industry and country leaders. She has created and implemented brand strategies that have helped companies get a foothold in the global market and build multi-million-dollar book of business. Nikki has been recognized globally for her work as a passionate, influential women leader. A mastermind in the design to develop business marketing initiatives, all focused to enable and elevate minority women in technology.

As a first-generation executive minority woman, Nikki has always believed in extending a hand to enable and elevate women for financial independence by leveraging her position & influence in the industry. Today, what keeps her inspired and awake is CerraCap Cares, a woman-led 501c3 impact foundation with a remarkable all-women advisory board. The Fund is focused on transforming billion lives through sustainable technological innovations that are centered around the new age fundamentals - which they define as Education, Environment, and Empowerment of the communities at large while keeping sustainability at the core of it all. “As a woman in VC, I know firsthand the challenges of raising funds and am incredibly cautious of the bias. In addition to the aftermath of COVID pandemic, funding for women and women founders declined, despite global ventures hitting an all-time high in 2021,” says Nikki. “CerraCap Cares is a platform that enables me to lean in to invest and form alliances. A consortium of incubators, influencers, and institutions that offer female founders a chance at entrepreneurship. We are committed to at least 30% or more of our portfolio focused on female funded and founded start-ups, a step towards reshaping Venture Capital while addressing the global challenges for sustainable impact. A woman investing in women.”

Nikki is focused on delivering an inspired strategy to grow the mind share and wallet share of investors and organizations. In addition, she has implemented thought-leadership and integrated strategies to meet respective business objectives and challenges by pivoting to provide outcomes that directly influence the top line. She is skilled at establishing excellence within culturally diverse environments and provides leadership through proactive strategic planning, thinking, and delivering valuable outcomes for growth.

“As a partner I wear multiple hats from operational excellence to marketing and fundraising but more importantly keeping the values, empathy, and morality of the team and myself in check,” explains the steadfast leader. “The hunger and willingness to proclaim and desire to be the vanguard of success keeps us laser focused as leaders in our own realm. I thrive on the ability to drive a rigorous culture and hold us to high standards of transparency, trust, and transformation with a strong mindset for wealth creation. Leadership prevails when we carry the team on either side with courage, empathy, and resilience.”

CerraCap Ventures, a Global Venture Capital fund headquartered in Southern California, is dedicated to early-stage technology investments in enterprise (B2B) solutions focused on the AI, Cyber Security and health tech. It enables rapid growth of technology start-ups leveraging its unique Sales & Scale™ business model, driving revenue from large enterprises into its portfolio companies. “As a team we are proud of what we have built together. In less than six years, cumulatively what we have achieved is quite remarkable, with eight previous exits and prior tech record of 9X and two soonicorn in horizon,” elucidates Nikki. “Today, we are recognized as institutional grade venture capital with institutional investments. It reflects our grit, hard work, talent, integrity, and dominant desire to make a difference. It is a testament to achieving the 'American Dream'.”

With fundraising in full throttle at CerraCap, Nikki and her team’s goal is to raise $100M by Q2, 2023 and an additional $25M for their impact fund. Nikki adds, "The impact industry has grown in depth and sophistication post-pandemic. And opportunities for refinement remains, nearly 70% of investors find the financial attractiveness to impact-investing relative to other investment strategies and they are satisfied with concessionary financial performance. VCs in general, anticipate success and increase in investments with future disruption and outcomes on the horizon." WL