About Nikhil Bhima
Who is Nikhil Bhima?
Nikhil Bhima is from Bangalore, India, and likes to build cool stuff and help good products find their people. He is building tabi, a voice app for the Mac powered entirely by Mistral AI models. He works in marketing at BitGo and is a Mistral AI Ambassador.
He is a generalist who likes trying new things in new settings, and he is most active on X, at @nikhilbhima.
What is he building?
tabi (heytabi.app), a voice app for the Mac. Hold fn in any app and it types what you say, cleaned up. Say "hey tabi" and it answers. It also reads anything aloud. Every model behind it is Mistral's. tabi has real users and is growing, and it is a member of Claude for Startups, Anthropic's program for early-stage startups.
Le Chaton Fat (playlechatonfat.com), a one-button browser game built on a viral Mistral meme. It went viral on X, LinkedIn and tech media.
Bookfolio (bookfolio.me), a simple way to track your books and share them with one link, used by readers around the world.
Older builds he no longer maintains, Tabula among them, are in the archive at nikhilbhima.com/projects.
What does he do at BitGo?
He works in marketing at BitGo, the digital asset custody and security platform, as the solo marketer for India. He builds brand awareness and community ahead of BitGo's India launch, runs monthly events for engineers, developers and builders, and represents the brand at conferences and hackathons.
Is he a Mistral AI Ambassador?
Yes, since July 2026. He made Le Chaton Fat, built Panel de Chat (a Le Chat side panel extension) and Mistral Docs MCP, and is credited as a contributor on Mistral Vibe, Mistral's open-source coding agent.
What did he do before BitGo?
His work mixed sales, events and marketing across India and the Middle East, and he has run his own ventures. At QnA International he generated $112,545 in sponsorship revenue and was named Top Employee and Rising Star of the Year 2022. At Zeal Forum he generated $60,000 in event revenue on a $285 marketing budget. He ran BLE Boardrooms, a series of C-level roundtables across five Indian cities, and ran a Korean cafe and clothing business in Bangalore for a year.
- Marketing Manager, VAP Group (Oct 2024 - Dec 2024)
- Founder, BLE Boardrooms (Jun 2024 - Oct 2024)
- Marketing Manager, PLEXUS GLOBAL EVENTS (Mar 2024 - Jun 2024)
- Head of Marketing & Partnerships, Zeal Forum (Jun 2023 - Mar 2024)
- Global Partnerships Coordinator, QnA International (Mar 2022 - May 2023)
- Owner - Operations & Management, Kathing Group (K Cafe) (Jan 2021 - Dec 2021)
- Support & Service Associate, 5paisa (Aug 2020 - Oct 2020)
- Customer Care Executive, G7 CR Technologies (Dec 2018 - Jun 2019)
- Event Coordinator, Flying Carpet (Dec 2018)
Where is he based?
Bangalore, India. He has worked remotely with companies in Dubai and run events across India, the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.
How can you reach him?
X is the best place: x.com/nikhilbhima. Email works too: nikhilbhima.360@gmail.com. He is also on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/nikhilbhima) and GitHub (github.com/nikhilbhima).