Nick Caldwell
Vice President Of Engineering @ X (formerly Twitter)
San Francisco, United States
Nick Caldwell is a tech exec with more than 20 years of experience, active board member, and venture capital investor. Nick has a passion for social media. He was formerly the General Manager for Core Technologies at Twitter, overseeing a 2,000 person team. He also led Reddit through hyper-scale as the VP of Engineering. Nick is responsible for twoof the most prominent business intelligence platforms in recent years. He spent 13 years at Microsoft, culminating in a role as General Manager of the Power BI product family where he rapidly transformed the company's BI suite. Later, he became Chief Product Officer at Looker which was acquired by Google for $2.6B. Nick's board work includes HubSpot, Bitly, and True.Nick holds a degree in computer science and electrical engineering from MIT, an MBA from U.C. Berkeley Haas, and has 10 patents related to natural language processing. Nick’s charitable work includes board membership for /dev/color: a non-profit whose mission is to maximize the impact of Black software engineers.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Nick Caldwell invests in
Stages Nick Caldwell invests in
Countries Nick Caldwell invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $2.3M–$6M
- Pre-Seed
- $1M–$3.2M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (38%)
- FinTech 2 (13%)
- Database 2 (13%)
- Analytics 2 (13%)
- Recruiting 2 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (69%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (13%)
- Series A 1 (6%)
- Series B 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 9 (56%)
- Canada 2 (13%)
- France 1 (6%)
- Colombia 1 (6%)
- United Kingdom 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Gravity
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After leaving Google, the founders of Gravity poured their decades of experience in data analytics into the backend of an agentic system to create Orion. Orion uses companies' existing data infrastructure just like a human analyst. Orion hunts for insights and recommends actions to the business, tirelessly optimizing business operations.Often times, Orion is used to enhance the customer's reporting capabilities back to their customers, delivering insights at scale. | $7M / Seed / Apr 15, 2026 | |
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Gravity
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After leaving Google, the founders of Gravity poured their decades of experience in data analytics into the backend of an agentic system to create Orion. Orion uses companies' existing data infrastructure just like a human analyst. Orion hunts for insights and recommends actions to the business, tirelessly optimizing business operations.Often times, Orion is used to enhance the customer's reporting capabilities back to their customers, delivering insights at scale. | $3.2M / Pre-Seed / Sep 02, 2025 | |
CodeZero
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While Kubernetes is largely recognized as the de facto standard for cloud orchestration, most developers would rather not use it because of its current complexity. Tens of millions of developers rely on tens of thousands of DevOps engineers to run Kubernetes, which creates huge bottlenecks that affect all technologies using cloud tools, like AI,ML, IoT and so on. CodeZero has created a new approach to Kubernetes development that helps companies quickly establish modern development techniques. 75% of a developer’s time is spent on debugging, or 1,500 hours a year. In the US alone, $113B is spent annually on identifying and fixing product defects. CodeZero is the modern Kubernetes platform that allows teams to collaboratively develop and debug microservices locally and in-cluster. CodeZero compresses the developer feedback loop so new features are implemented, tested and released 10x faster than traditional development methods by allowing developers to debug their code without having to spend time deploying software to the cluster each time they want to test a change. | $3.5M / Seed / Mar 12, 2024 | |
Crew
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Crew is a curated platform that connects designers and developers with vetted clients that need a website, mobile app, or other design work. The company's highly trusted network of independent creatives has worked on products used by tens of millions of people for some of the industry's biggest companies, including Apple, Google, Uber,IDEO, and Dropbox.It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Montréal, Quebec. | $2.3M / Seed / Feb 14, 2023 | |
Crew.work
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Crew.work is an all-in-one recruiting CRM that lets teams automate their outbound efforts, streamline the hiring processes, and gather all the data in one place. Instead of waiting for candidates to apply, companies use Crew to pro-actively contact, nurture & close talent, at scale. | $2.3M / Seed / Feb 14, 2023 | |
Promise
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Promise streamlines government payments and benefits with secure technology, simplifying income verification and enabling flexible payment plans to improve revenue collection and accessibility.. | Series B / Aug 01, 2022 | |
Mad Realities
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Mad Realities is reimagining entertainment for the modern world, powered by ownership incentives of the new internet. | $6M / Seed / Apr 25, 2022 | |
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Promise
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Promise streamlines government payments and benefits with secure technology, simplifying income verification and enabling flexible payment plans to improve revenue collection and accessibility.. | $25M / Series B / Feb 24, 2022 | |
Honeycomb
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Honeycomb is the best way to save your baby's story. We're proud to be built for parents, by parents, and featured in publications including NYTimes, USA Today, and NBC. | $4M / Seed / Dec 13, 2021 | |
ByteChek
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ByteChek helps businesses build cybersecurity programs to enhance sales and build trust from customers. The company was founded in 2020 by AJ Yawn is based in Miami, Florida, United States. | $3M / Seed / Dec 13, 2021 | |
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Co-Investors
Y Combinator
3 deals together
Denver Ventures
2 deals together
K5 Global
2 deals together
Kima Ventures
2 deals together
Level Up Ventures
2 deals together
Rebel Fund
2 deals together
About X (formerly Twitter)
X, formerly Twitter, is a global social networking platform that allows its users to send and read 280-character messages. It enables registered users to read and post their tweets through the web, short message service (SMS), and mobile applications. As a global real-time communications platform, X has more than 400 million monthly visitors and255 million monthly active users around the world. X’s active group of registered members includes World leaders, major athletes, star performers, news organizations, and entertainment outlets. It is currently available in more than 35 languages. X was launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass. X is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with local offices in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Boulder, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Sunnyvale, and Washington. X's international offices are located in Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, Seoul, Tokyo, Toronto, and Vancouver.
X (formerly Twitter) Contacts
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David Shackleton
Product Head at OpenBack Integration
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Kayvon Beykpour
Head of Consumer Product
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Linda Yaccarino
Chief Executive Officer
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Martijn de Kuijper
Senior Product Manager
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Ryan Merl
Senior Software Engineer
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FAQ
What does Nick Caldwell invest in?
Nick Caldwell invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Database startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Nick Caldwell's check size?
Nick Caldwell typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$6M at Seed and $1M–$3.2M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Nick Caldwell participates in.
When did Nick Caldwell last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Nick Caldwell closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 16 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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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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