# Nick Chen

> Nick Chen is a seed investor at Georgian (Toronto) backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Georgian](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/georgian-partners)
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasnchen/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/nicknchen
- Website: https://www.georgianpartners.com/

Nick Chen is a seed investor at Georgian in Toronto focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Nick Chen is the Partner at Golden Ventures. He attended Ivey Business School at Western University

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 100% |
| Software | 1 | 50% |
| Generative AI | 1 | 50% |
| Cyber Security | 1 | 50% |
| Air Transportation | 1 | 50% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 1 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Weco AI | Weco AI is an AI platform that includes machine learning engineering, GPU kernel optimization, and prompt engineering. | $8M | Seed | Jul 30, 2025 |  |
| Pillar Security | Pillar is a unified AI security platform that enables organizations to build and run secure AI software by proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating security risks across the entire AI lifecycle. By embedding robust security foundations from development through runtime, Pillar accelerates AI initiatives while effectively managing criticalbusiness risks. With capabilities like AI fingerprinting, asset inventory, tailored adversarial testing, and adaptive guardrails, Pillar streamlines compliance, prevents data breaches, and empowers teams to ship AI-powered applications and agents with confidence. | $9M | Seed | Apr 16, 2025 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Founder Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founder-collective) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ground Up Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ground-up-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Third Kind Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-line-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Koro Capital Ltd](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/koro-capital-ltd) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Night Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/night-capital-5e91) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Georgian

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

Georgian is a fintech company that invests in high growth software companies that harness the power of data in a trustworthy way. They're building a platform to provide a better experience of growth capital to software company CEOs and their teams. Georgian's platform is designed to identify and accelerate the best growth-stage softwarecompanies, taking an intelligent, data-first approach to solving the key challenges CEOs face as they grow their businesses.They invest in companies across North America that harness the power of data in a trustworthy way. Based in Toronto and founded in 2008, Georgian’s team brings together software entrepreneurs, machine learning experts, experienced operators, and investment professionals.

5 contacts available at Georgian.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jane Podbelskaya | Senior Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jane-podbelskaya |
| John Berton | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-berton |
| Justin LaFayette | Managing Partner, Lead Investor & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/justin-lafayette |
| Madalin Mihailescu | R&D | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/madalin-mihailescu |
| Margaret Wu | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/margaret-wu-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Nick Chen invest in?

Nick Chen invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Generative AI startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 2 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 Nick Chen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nick Chen closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 2 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?

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