# Marlon Nichols

> Marlon Nichols is a seed investor at Macro (Los Angeles) backing Financial Services and Software. See 62 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Macro](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/macro)
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 62
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 61%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/marloncnichols
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/MarlonCNichols
- Website: https://x.com/MarlonCNichols

Marlon Nichols is a seed investor at Macro in Los Angeles focused on Financial Services and Software. Marlon C. Nichols is based out of Los Angeles, California, and is the Co-founder & Managing General Partner of MaC Venture Capital and Board Member of Pipe. Marlon C. Nichols attended Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 10 | 16% |
| Software | 9 | 15% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 13% |
| FinTech | 7 | 11% |
| Mobile | 4 | 6% |

99 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 37 | 60% |
| Series A | 8 | 13% |
| Series B | 2 | 3% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 3% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 33 | 53% |
| Nigeria | 4 | 6% |
| Kenya | 3 | 5% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pipe | Pipe operates a global trading platform for recurring revenue streams, connecting companies to institutional investors to trade in real time. It makes recurring revenue streams tradable for their annual value offering more cash flow for scaling companies | $16M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 09, 2026 |  |
| Janta Power | Janta Power specializes in 3D solar technology, designed to optimize energy generation in limited spaces. Their solutions focus on improving efficiency by using innovative designs that maximize solar capture. Additionally, their systems come with remote management features, allowing for monitoring and control from a distance. | $8.2M | Seed | Sep 02, 2025 |  |
| Blok | Blok models product changes, expedites decision-making, optimizes engineering resources, and uses artificial intelligence (AI) to assist you in determining which product experiments should launch first. | $5M | Seed | Jul 09, 2025 |  |
| Blok | Blok models product changes, expedites decision-making, optimizes engineering resources, and uses artificial intelligence (AI) to assist you in determining which product experiments should launch first. | $7.5M | Seed | Jul 09, 2025 |  |
| Quilt Health | Quilt Health is a digital health company focused on improving access to innovative treatments for people living with rare and complex conditions, starting with sickle cell disease. The company leverages technology, data integration, and artificial intelligence to streamline clinical trial recruitment, enhance patient access to therapies, andstrengthen provider networks | $6M | Seed | Jun 17, 2025 |  |
| Carrot Credit | Carrot Credit is a financial services company that provides line of credit to the customers and businesses. | $4.2M | Seed | May 22, 2025 |  |
| Era Finance | Era is a financial management platform driven by AI that makes asset management more accessible. | $6.2M | Seed | Feb 12, 2025 |  |
| StoreCash | StoreCash is a mobile payment service that allows users to pay with QR codes at over 200,000 shops while earning cash back. | $3.7M | Seed | Nov 19, 2024 |  |
| Finmile | Fin is a transportation company that provides zero-emission, sustainable parcel delivery, and logistics services for e-commerce brands. Its deliveries and warehousing services serve e-commerce, retail, and logistics industries. | $6M | Seed | Oct 15, 2024 |  |
| LOST iN | LOST iN navigates you through 17 global cities from a local perspective. Releasing every month a new city to discover. Our network of opinion leaders from a creative background assure the best recommendations: No tourist traps. LOST iN is a mobile app helping you to experience the best out of each destination. It helps to customize therecommendations based on time, weather and location for each user and to save time.LOST iN print guides are also available in leading retail and concept stores worldwide to inspire offline. Experience a new city from within. | $4M | Seed | Jun 26, 2024 |  |

10 of 62 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Correlation Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/correlation-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Fin Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fin-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kapor Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kapor-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Muse Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/muse-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Macro

VC Fund · Los Angeles, United States

Macro is a disruptive media company focused on the multicultural market. Macro specializes in creating film, television and digital content for a multicultural audience. The company works to marry gifted storytellers with the sorely-needed capital to bring their stories to life, and doing so across traditional and unconventional platforms anddistribution channels.

5 contacts available at Macro.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aisha Corpas Wynn | VP of Alternative Programming | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aisha-corpas-wynn |
| Charles King | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-king |
| Eric Briggs | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-briggs |
| Greta Fuentes | Director Of Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gret-fuentes |
| Inga Dyer | Senior Vice President of business & legal affairs | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inga-dyer |

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## FAQ

### What does Marlon Nichols invest in?

Marlon Nichols invests primarily in Financial Services, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 62 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 Marlon Nichols last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Marlon Nichols closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 62 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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