Nicholas Adams
Managing Partner and Co-founder @ Differential Ventures
New York, United States
Nicholas Adams is a seed investor at Differential Ventures in New York focused on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Nicholas Adams is based out of New York, New York, and is the Managing Partner and Co-founder of Differential Ventures. Nicholas previously worked at Agnostiq as a board member. Nicholas Adams attended the D'Amore-McKim School of Business.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 86%
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Machine Learning 3 (43%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (43%)
- Software 2 (29%)
- Credit 1 (14%)
- Banking 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (71%)
- Series A 1 (14%)
Country
- United States 4 (57%)
- Canada 2 (29%)
Investments
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| Polly—our patented AI—uses the trillions of available public online posts she monitors every day to accurately predict population trends. Polly can learn the behaviour and likely reaction of any target market and coach you to create advertising and messaging that gets the results you want. You can even tell Polly what goals you want to achieve andshe will tell you what it will take to get there!Polly can be used to actually predict future trends and test messages before releasing them to the public. Some of our most popular services include: • Predicting Sales Trends • Competitive Analysis • Measuring Advertising Effectiveness • Message Testing • Conjoint Analysis • Public Opinion Research | $3M / Seed / Sep 03, 2026 | ||
| PostSig automates the post-signature contract management process, ensuring obligations are met, deadlines tracked, and performance optimized. Stay compliant, mitigate risks, and maximize contract value effortlessly — turning your contracts from static documents to strategic assets. | $4.1M / Seed / Sep 16, 2025 | ||
| Golioth is an IoT platform that empowers engineers to connect hardware to the cloud quickly and securely. With a single, unified API for connecting to the cloud, teams can go from prototype to production in minutes, not months.Think of Golioth as a universal connector. Whatever your hardware setup, we’ll make sure it connects seamlessly to yourideal stack, sends data to the cloud, keeps your product up to date over the air, and scales as you grow. Golioth helps you build securely from the start, from prototype through to production, even as your products evolve and change.With an elegant device SDK and multi-hardware, multi-protocol support Golioth connects you with the most popular cloud providers so you can update your devices from anywhere and control them from the cloud—with security built-in. If you are looking for a cloud-based, flexible IoT solution that can get you from prototype to production up to 30X times faster, and can scale more easily–plus keep it all secure–you’re looking for Golioth. | $4.6M / Seed / May 04, 2023 | ||
| Knockri is an AI video skills assessment tool that uses a similar way to measure employers. The company helps reduce unconscious bias and shortlists the best-fit job candidates to interview, during the early screening process of hiring. It also helps eliminate unsuccessful interviews, by merging video intelligence, artificial intelligence, andscience to quantify soft skills like confidence and empathy.Knockri's algorithm is blind and has been trained not to account for skin color, race, ethnicity, gender, appearance, or sexual preference as measures of desirability for a hire. The company's video and written screening platforms can seamlessly integrate into the existing Applicant Tracking System, that can easily plug-in their ready to go algorithm (API) into the existing interview and conference platforms. | $2.2M / Seed / Apr 27, 2020 | ||
| Concertio is a premier provider of AI-powered performance optimization tools for the hardware and software markets. It also provides AI-powered performance optimization tools that boost the performance of computing systems by tailoring the many system settings in processors, firmware, OS and applications to the running workloads.The company toolsare used by the likes of Intel, Marvell, and Mellanox to boost the performance of a multitude of devices and applications, turning general-purpose systems into high-performant special-purpose systems. The optimizer studio integrates performance optimization software suite that monitors (and learns from) the interactions between applications and systems, to deliver optimal configuration settings for peak performance.Concertio was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA. | $4.2M / Seed / Apr 02, 2020 | ||
| Concertio is a premier provider of AI-powered performance optimization tools for the hardware and software markets. It also provides AI-powered performance optimization tools that boost the performance of computing systems by tailoring the many system settings in processors, firmware, OS and applications to the running workloads.The company toolsare used by the likes of Intel, Marvell, and Mellanox to boost the performance of a multitude of devices and applications, turning general-purpose systems into high-performant special-purpose systems. The optimizer studio integrates performance optimization software suite that monitors (and learns from) the interactions between applications and systems, to deliver optimal configuration settings for peak performance.Concertio was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA. | Seed / Aug 07, 2019 | ||
| Ocrolus is a document automation platform that powers the digital lending ecosystem, automating credit decisions across fintech, mortgage, and banking. The company provides document analysis infrastructure to customers like PayPal, Brex, SoFi, and Plaid, and has raised over $100 million from blue-chip fintech investors. Ocrolus enables financialservices firms to make high quality decisions with trusted data and unparalleled efficiency. | $4M / Series A / Apr 09, 2018 |
Co-Investors
About Differential Ventures
Differential Ventures invest in b2b tech startups with a unique advantage in data science and machine intelligence that will transform the way businesses operate. It is a seed-stage vc fund that invests in b2b data-oriented technology solutions.
Differential Ventures Contacts
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Daria Barkai
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David Magerman
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Ned Berman
Principal
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Nicholas Adams
Managing Partner and Co-founder
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What does Nicholas Adams invest in?
Nicholas Adams invests primarily in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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