Keith Nilsson
Co-Founder, Managing Partner @ Visionnaire Ventures
Menlo Park, United States
Keith Nilsson is a seed investor at Visionnaire Ventures in Menlo Park focused on Software and E-Commerce. Keith Nilsson is founder and Managing Partner of Xplorer Capital, an early stage venture firm focused on disruptive technologies and business models. Nilsson was previously a partner at TPG Growth and led technology investing in growth oriented technology companies on a global basis. Prior to TPG, Nilsson held various senior executive roles atYahoo!. Nilsson's most recent roles were SVP of Global Initiatives and SVP of Emerging Markets Group. As one of Yahoo!’s four geographic regions, Nilsson's Emerging Markets territories spanned from Latin America to Southeast Asia, India, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa. Prior to this role, Nilsson was Vice President of Corporate Development for Yahoo!, responsible for all of the company's investments, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic partnership activities. During his tenure in Corporate Development, he directly led or oversaw over 40 acquisitions, investments or joint ventures worth more than $25 billion in transaction value, including Alibaba, Overture, Flickr and many others. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Nilsson worked in technology at Intel Corporation, and investment banking and equity research with Bankers Trust and Alex Brown in New York and Hong Kong.Nilsson has lived and worked internationally for more than fifteen years across both Asia and Europe; and has travelled extensively, having visited over 70 countries.Nilsson is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, board member of the non-profit Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), and also sits on various boards of start-up technology companies around the world. Nilsson holds a bachelor of arts from the University of California, Davis, an MBA from Columbia Business School, and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia’s School of International Affairs.
- Total investments:
- 31
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 26%
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Industries Keith Nilsson invests in
Stages Keith Nilsson invests in
Countries Keith Nilsson invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (19%)
- E-Commerce 6 (19%)
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (19%)
- Big Data 4 (13%)
- Internet 4 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (35%)
- Series A 4 (13%)
- Series B 4 (13%)
- Series C 2 (6%)
- Funding Round 2 (6%)
Country
- United States 20 (65%)
- Japan 1 (3%)
- Singapore 1 (3%)
Investments
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DigiSure
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DigiSure is aiming to be the global leader in trust, safety and insurance for digital businesses, beginning with mobility marketplaces, so they can deliver seamless insurance experiences, lower their costs and keep their customers safe. We exist to put more power and control over a portion of the $1.6 trillion in property & casualty (P&C)insurance premiums spent annually directly into the hands of the people who know their businesses and customers best. Our vision is to use connected data and automation to transform risk management to make it more transparent and responsive, similar to how the internet and mobile changed commerce and advertising. We do this by infusing data-enabled intelligence and automation technology into everything we build, all the while delivering a customer experience that is second to none.Founded in 2018 by veterans of leading insurance, mobility and sharing economy companies, DigiSure is working to reimagine insurance for future mobility to create a safer, more secure and climate friendly world. The Company is based in San Francisco and maintains a global footprint. For more information visit, www.digisure.ai. | $13.1M / Seed / Aug 19, 2021 | |
Lacuna Technologies
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Lacuna Technologies helps transportation agencies better manage the public right-of-way. | $16M / Series A / Jul 07, 2021 | |
Scalefast
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Scalefast is a digital commerce solution that simplifies and streamlines e-Commerce for inspirational brands. The company uses a powerful combination of Artificial Intelligence and e-Commerce expertise. It provides the infrastructure and full-service business operations necessary to scale quickly and increase revenue, with everything needed underone roof. Scalefast takes the complexity out of digital commerce for brands in the entertainment, consumer goods, and fashion industries. It is based in Los Angeles, with offices in Paris and Madrid, and was founded in 2014. | $22M / Series B / Jun 30, 2020 | |
Genies
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Genies is a mobile app company that allows users to clone themselves. Through their Avatar Agency, consumer product, and SDK, Genies has set the foundation for swift, widespread adaptation of avatars in society, business, and culture. With over a million clothing and facial options provided, users can create their Genie to represent themselfhowever they’d like.Genies was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Venice, California, United States. | $10M / Nov 19, 2018 | |
Bigfoot Biomedical
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Bigfoot Biomedical is a medical device company changing diabetes care for people with insulin-requiring diabetes. The company developing an end-to-end type 1 diabetes management system using a simple design, cloud connectivity, and human-centered automation. It optimizes the dosing and delivery of insulin through an integrated medical deviceecosystem powered by machine learning and enhanced by secure, user-friendly consumer technologies, fundamentally changing the paradigm of care.Biofoot Biomedical ’s pioneering smartphone-enabled systems include both automated infusion pump and connected insulin pen options for consumers and will be delivered via a first-of-its-kind monthly subscription service model. By employing data-driven intelligence across an integrated device ecosystem, they are transforming diabetes care with a fully comprehensive digital drug delivery platform experienced as a service. | $18M / Series B / Mar 21, 2018 | |
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Bigfoot Biomedical
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Bigfoot Biomedical is a medical device company changing diabetes care for people with insulin-requiring diabetes. The company developing an end-to-end type 1 diabetes management system using a simple design, cloud connectivity, and human-centered automation. It optimizes the dosing and delivery of insulin through an integrated medical deviceecosystem powered by machine learning and enhanced by secure, user-friendly consumer technologies, fundamentally changing the paradigm of care.Biofoot Biomedical ’s pioneering smartphone-enabled systems include both automated infusion pump and connected insulin pen options for consumers and will be delivered via a first-of-its-kind monthly subscription service model. By employing data-driven intelligence across an integrated device ecosystem, they are transforming diabetes care with a fully comprehensive digital drug delivery platform experienced as a service. | $37M / Series B / Dec 18, 2017 | |
LeapMind
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LeapMind makes deep learning “small and compact” and accessible across a broad spectrum of applications, evolving the Internet of Things into the “Deep Learning of Things (DoT).” While improving the accuracy of neural network models, we are researching and developing our own innovative algorithms that can reduce the computational complexity of deeplearning to use within a small computing environment. We also conduct research on original chip architectures that can efficiently implement deep neural networks on a circuit with low power and limited memory. | $176.7M / Series B / Oct 20, 2017 | |
Price.com
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Price.com develops a money savings platform used for comparison shopping, cashback, coupons, price history, and price alerts.The platform provides a free cross-platform experience for consumers. Its patented, AI-powered matching algorithm enables real-time discovery of new, white-label, used, local, refurbished, and rental products, takingcomparison shopping to new heights. Price.com is available as a desktop and mobile website, browser extension, native app, and chatbot.RJ Rain founded Price.com in San Francisco, California in 2016. | $2M / Convertible Note / Nov 15, 2016 | |
Modbot
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Modbot brings industrial precision and power to consumer assembled robots. Imagine automated manufacturing and consumer robots within reach of everybody, assembled like Lego. Modbot is a system of affordable and re-usable modules that snap together, filling the gap between $100 hobby and $20,000 industrial motion equipment. | Seed / Oct 19, 2016 | |
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Bigfoot Biomedical
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Bigfoot Biomedical is a medical device company changing diabetes care for people with insulin-requiring diabetes. The company developing an end-to-end type 1 diabetes management system using a simple design, cloud connectivity, and human-centered automation. It optimizes the dosing and delivery of insulin through an integrated medical deviceecosystem powered by machine learning and enhanced by secure, user-friendly consumer technologies, fundamentally changing the paradigm of care.Biofoot Biomedical ’s pioneering smartphone-enabled systems include both automated infusion pump and connected insulin pen options for consumers and will be delivered via a first-of-its-kind monthly subscription service model. By employing data-driven intelligence across an integrated device ecosystem, they are transforming diabetes care with a fully comprehensive digital drug delivery platform experienced as a service. | Series A / Oct 05, 2016 | |
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Co-Investors
About Visionnaire Ventures
Visionnaire Ventures is a global technology investment firm focused on visionary people and ideas that can become world-class, market-leading companies. Based in San Francisco, California, with unparalleled global access, the team seeks out and funds innovative businesses anywhere in the world that are leveraging technology to evolve and create newInternet and mobile experiences. With the ability to fund companies across all stages from seed to growth, Visionnaire Ventures is focused on key market segments where novel ideas have the ability to become sea changes for people everywhere.The Visionnaire Ventures team consists of seasoned entrepreneurs and executives who have founded and operated global internet, game and online media companies, and thus are able to support entrepreneurs companies as they build globally successful companies.The team is currently seeking and funding companies active in diverse technology market segments including Commerce, Advertising, Mobile, Big Data, IoT.
Visionnaire Ventures Contacts
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Kenta Adachi
Principal
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Allan McNichol
Entrepreneur In Residence
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Fuyuki Yamaguchi
Managing Partner
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Keith Nilsson
Co-Founder, Managing Partner
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Susan Choe
Co-Founder, Managing Partner
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What does Keith Nilsson invest in?
Keith Nilsson invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 31 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 Keith Nilsson last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Keith Nilsson closed in Aug 2021. Shizune tracks 31 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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