Chris Nakutis Taylor
Founding Partner @ Nomad Ventures
Los Angeles, United States
Chris Nakutis Taylor is a Series A investor at Nomad Ventures in Los Angeles focused on Transportation and Mobile. Christopher Nakutis Taylor is a Founding Partner at Nomad Ventures. He has spent over a decade as an early employee at Uber, Uber Eats, and Bird. He attended The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management, and previously worked in Private Equity and Investment Banking.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Chris Nakutis Taylor invests in
Stages Chris Nakutis Taylor invests in
Countries Chris Nakutis Taylor invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Transportation 3 (27%)
- Mobile 2 (18%)
- FinTech 2 (18%)
- Logistics 2 (18%)
- B2B 1 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (27%)
- Series B 3 (27%)
- Seed 2 (18%)
- Series D 2 (18%)
- Series C 1 (9%)
Country
- United States 7 (64%)
- India 1 (9%)
Investments
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Liquid Death is the first bold, hilarious beverage focused on health and sustainability, and it is one of the fastest-growing non-alcoholic beverage brands of all time. They take the healthiest beverage available (water) and package it in infinitely recyclable tallboy cans that can compete with the fun marketing of unhealthy brands in energydrinks, beer, and junk food. In addition, Liquid Death donates 10% of its profits from each can sold to nonprofits that work to eliminate plastic pollution and provide clean drinking water to those in need. | $70M / Series D / Oct 03, 2022 | |
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Liquid Death is the first bold, hilarious beverage focused on health and sustainability, and it is one of the fastest-growing non-alcoholic beverage brands of all time. They take the healthiest beverage available (water) and package it in infinitely recyclable tallboy cans that can compete with the fun marketing of unhealthy brands in energydrinks, beer, and junk food. In addition, Liquid Death donates 10% of its profits from each can sold to nonprofits that work to eliminate plastic pollution and provide clean drinking water to those in need. | $75M / Series C / Jan 03, 2022 | |
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Zoe Financial helps its customers find an independent and fiduciary financial advisor. Zoe Financial screens the experts to ensure that they will provide the client with the right advice in the right manner. Because financial help extends beyond just the numbers. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States. | $10M / Series A / May 18, 2021 | |
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Routable is a B2B payments-based platform that allows its users to send and receive business-to-business payments. Its platform uses API allows its users to build payments infrastructure in minutes. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $30M / Series B / Apr 15, 2021 | |
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The Mobile App For Truck Drivers | Seed / Oct 20, 2020 | |
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Liquid Death is the first bold, hilarious beverage focused on health and sustainability, and it is one of the fastest-growing non-alcoholic beverage brands of all time. They take the healthiest beverage available (water) and package it in infinitely recyclable tallboy cans that can compete with the fun marketing of unhealthy brands in energydrinks, beer, and junk food. In addition, Liquid Death donates 10% of its profits from each can sold to nonprofits that work to eliminate plastic pollution and provide clean drinking water to those in need. | $23M / Series B / Sep 28, 2020 | |
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Dunzo is a hyper-local delivery app that connects users to the nearest delivery partner. The delivery and e-commerce company offers services that include delivery of packages, groceries, food, medicines, pet supplies, and more. It strives to advance the retail landscape by providing micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) with digitaltools and solutions to streamline and facilitate eCommerce sales. Dunzo is backed by investors Alteria Capital, Google, Lightbox, Evolvence, LGT Lightstone Aspada, and S Korea's Hana Financial Investment.It was co-founded by Ankur Aggarwal, Dalvir Suri, Kabeer Biswas, and Mukund Jha in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India in 2015. | $45M / Series D / Oct 04, 2019 | |
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Boom Supersonic is a commercial airplane manufacturer that builds a 65- to 88-seat supersonic airliner.Boom Technology is making supersonic passenger travel into reality by making a supersonic airliner. Boom was founded on the philosophy that they need to overcome the challenges to supersonic passenger flight, not surrender to them. They'remaking a supersonic aircraft affordable for business travel. Their ultimate goal is a routine supersonic flight for everyone.Boom Supersonic is redefining what it means to fly in a commercial aircraft by building Overture, its Mach-2.2. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Englewood, Colorado. | $100M / Series B / Apr 01, 2019 | |
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Cargo Systems is the creators of Cargo, the in-car service that allows rideshare passengers to order products on their phone, without downloading an app.Founded in 2016 by former Birchbox employees, Cargo launched in New York and Boston with thousands of driver signups in 49 states. Cargo works directly with rideshare companies, drivers and brandpartners to distribute a variety of products to passengers in-car.A Techstars alumnus, Cargo is venture-backed by Techstars Ventures, Fontinalis Partners, Detroit Venture Partners, Rosecliff Capital. | $22.5M / Series A / Sep 24, 2018 | |
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Cargo Systems is the creators of Cargo, the in-car service that allows rideshare passengers to order products on their phone, without downloading an app.Founded in 2016 by former Birchbox employees, Cargo launched in New York and Boston with thousands of driver signups in 49 states. Cargo works directly with rideshare companies, drivers and brandpartners to distribute a variety of products to passengers in-car.A Techstars alumnus, Cargo is venture-backed by Techstars Ventures, Fontinalis Partners, Detroit Venture Partners, Rosecliff Capital. | $5.5M / Seed / Jan 22, 2018 | |
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Co-Investors
About Nomad Ventures
Nomad Ventures is an LA-based Early Stage Venture Fund focused on Marketplace businesses. The GPs (Chris Taylor and James Mumma) are entrepreneurs who have helped build some of the fastest growing startups in recent history (Uber, Uber Eats, Opendoor, Bird) and they support founders by providing both expertise and capital to build the next big techbusinesses.
Nomad Ventures Contacts
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Chris Nakutis Taylor
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FAQ
What does Chris Nakutis Taylor invest in?
Chris Nakutis Taylor invests primarily in Transportation, Mobile and FinTech startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Chris Nakutis Taylor last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Chris Nakutis Taylor closed in Oct 2022. Shizune tracks 11 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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