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Footwork’s Secret Sauce | Mike Smith, Nikhil Basu Trivedi

The Peel

26 March 2026 · Startups & Building

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Nikhil Basu Trivedi and Mike Smith are the Co-founders of Footwork where they invest up to $15 million in Seed and Series A rounds.

We talk about starting the firm in 2020, their secret sauce for working with founders, lessons investing in Canva’s Seed round, scaling Stitch Fix from $0 to $1B reven

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