Hi, I’m Nico.

I created this site to:

Clarify my thinking through writing

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Connect with interesting people

&

Show you this picture of me

Talk to me about:

  • Anything in the venture capital stack: start-up ops, LPs (endowments and fund-of-funds), and VC funds themselves

  • Anything I’ve written about

  • Any investment I’ve made

Writing

I write a newsletter and less frequent but longer form content to clarify my thinking. I don’t write to create neatly packaged answers. I aim to start a discussion on topics that I’m actively exploring and learning about.

I employ one-level higher thinking when digging in. Topics I’m currently exploring include:

  • The role that finance plays in innovation and shaping the future

  • How incentives control our public and private systems

  • How we value goods, services, and each other

Building

I’m building a computational bio platform to change the way a billion people diagnose and manage neurological disorders. I’m supported by an exceptional team and am committed to building an exceptional company.

I invest as an angel in start-ups redefining our societal OS (primarily agriculture, health, finance, deep tech) and as an LP in VC funds (primarily emerging managers, but also funds tackling the above categories).

Investing

9-bullet bio:

Studied—

Worked—

  • Served with AmeriCorps

  • Hospitals/payers at EY

  • Consulted for start-ups (GTM, fundraising, finance)

  • VC (invested and led research across deep tech, consumer, enterprise / pre-seed to pre-IPO)

Now—