Nick Candito
Angel Investor
Nick Candito is a seed investor focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Enterprise software executive and startup investor/advisor in over 150 companies.He is currently the co-founder of ACOF (www.angelcollective.com), which is an opportunity fund for the top emerging managers – on Fund IV with over 75 announced investments. As an operator, he was the Founder/CEO of Progressly, a workflow automationcompany, which was acquired by Box in May 2018. In 2017, he was selected to the Forbes 30 Under 30 List in Enterprise Technology. Before that, Nick was an early hire at RelateIQ, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2014 for ~$400M. Prior he led Strategy & Operations at Crimson Hexagon, which merged with Brandwatch and was then acquired for $450M in 2021. When he’s not working, Nick is between Austin, TX and San Mateo, CA with his wife Trish and their three daughters Charlotte (6), Camila (4), and Campbell (2).
- Total investments:
- 63
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Nick Candito invests in
Stages Nick Candito invests in
Countries Nick Candito invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $2.3M–$7.6M
- Pre-Seed
- $500k–$2.1M
- Series A
- $8M–$150M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 26 (41%)
- Artificial Intelligence 16 (25%)
- SaaS 13 (21%)
- FinTech 8 (13%)
- Information Technology 8 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 30 (48%)
- Pre-Seed 14 (22%)
- Series A 10 (16%)
- Series C 2 (3%)
- Series B 1 (2%)
Country
- United States 49 (78%)
- Canada 1 (2%)
- France 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Shared Vision is at the forefront of online commerce technology, providing creators with a cutting-edge platform to optimize and automate affiliate revenue streams. Its SaaS solution features a centralized management platform for creators, enabling them to easily manage their affiliate links and maximize their revenue potential. Meanwhile, itsunique consumer-based shopping cart experience drives increased sales and generates revenue for creators, brands, and itself. | Seed / Feb 10, 2026 | ||
| LM Arena provides a platform for testing AI models. LM Arena serves as an essential resource for researchers and developers worldwide. As the AI field expands, the importance of reliable benchmarking tools like LM Arena remains undeniable. The company also operates Chatbot Arena, a specialized service for evaluating artificial intelligence systems. | $150M / Series A / Jan 06, 2026 | ||
| Squad is an AI-driven hiring platform aggregating top recruiter referrals to shortlist best candidates faster. | Seed / Dec 18, 2025 | ||
| Micro1 offers a platform that converts human expertise into structured datasets and recruitment processes for companies using AI. It provides a Data Engine that handles the recruitment of experts and manages human-in-the-loop operations to generate data used in post-training of AI models. It also provides Zara, an AI recruiter agent, whichdiscovers, vets, and qualifies talent globally for enterprises and large-volume recruitment firms. The company maintains a Research Lab that publishes studies related to evaluating AI-assisted recruitment, speech-to-text systems, proctoring models, and other aspects of human-data integration into AI systems. It delivers APIs to access its human-data services and recruiter tools. | $35M / Series A / Sep 12, 2025 | ||
| VectorWave is a technology business dedicated to providing enhanced solutions for spectrum access and coexistence in tough and congested electromagnetic settings. | $2.5M / Seed / Jun 11, 2025 | ||
| Mobly is the first event-agnostic lead capture, enrichment and engagement app. Users can snap a photo of any attendee badge or business card, and have that person's contact info instantly enriched (25+ fields) and pushed to their CRM. THey can then follow up via text, email, phone or social from the app, and the activity actually logs back tothe CRM. No card/badge? No problem. SImply search name + company in the search bar for the same result. | $4.3M / Seed / Jan 21, 2025 | ||
| Turion Space provides a spacecraft to remove orbital debris and services to existing satellites. The spacecraft will rendezvous and dock with current satellites and large debris objects using vision sensors and robotic arms. Utilizing the onboard propulsion system, the spacecraft will either deorbit or change the orbit of the debris object orsatellite. | $20M / Series A / Dec 02, 2024 | ||
| Agree.com is the best solution for creating and managing contracts, streamlining negotiations, enhancing compliance, optimizing workflows, and converting more customers — all within one intuitive platform. View edits, track signatures, and get alerted on all upcoming key milestones. Include free, one-click e-signatures with identity verification onevery agreement. Increase deal velocity and drive revenue impact with integrated payments. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Sep 05, 2024 | ||
| Augment is a pre-IPO marketplace that enables investors to buy and sell shares in private companies for as little as $10k. Investors can trade shares within its Collective product without the hassle of traditional secondaries markets. It offers securities through Augment Capital, LLC, a registered broker-dealer and Alternative Trading System withFINRA and the SEC. | $3.2M / Seed / Aug 01, 2024 | ||
| B2B SaaS for Fashion and Apparel | $3.5M / Seed / May 16, 2024 | ||
| See all 63 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Nick Candito invest in?
Nick Candito invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 63 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 Candito's check size?
Nick Candito typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$7.6M at Seed, $500k–$2.1M at Pre-Seed and $8M–$150M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Nick Candito participates in.
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When did Nick Candito last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Nick Candito closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 63 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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