Nick Moran
General Partner @ New Stack Ventures
Chicago, United States
Nick Moran is a pre-seed investor at New Stack Ventures in Chicago focused on Software and Financial Services. Nick Moran is the General Partner at New Stack Ventures.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 71%
Last updated:
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Industries Nick Moran invests in
Stages Nick Moran invests in
Countries Nick Moran invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (29%)
- Financial Services 3 (21%)
- SaaS 2 (14%)
- FinTech 2 (14%)
- Health Care 2 (14%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 8 (57%)
- Seed 4 (29%)
- Series B 1 (7%)
- Funding Round 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 8 (57%)
- Canada 3 (21%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| equipifi provides buy now, pay later software for financial institutions. The company offers embedded payment and installment lending tools that integrate with digital banking platforms and core banking systems. Its platform enables banks and credit unions to provide pre-qualified financing offers, split-payment options, and short-term installmentloans through existing checking accounts and debit cards. equipifi also provides loan management, risk configuration, reporting, and customer engagement tools to support digital payment and lending programs. | $34M / Series B / May 14, 2026 | ||
| Earlyasset is a private market infrastructure company that brings price transparency and liquidity access to the venture secondary market.The platform enables shareholders — including employees, founders, and early investors — to discover the estimated market value of their private equity, priced to their specific share class and cap stackposition using real market data, public comparables, and proprietary signals. Unlike last-round valuations or 409A estimates, Earlyasset models what a secondary buyer would actually pay today.For VCs, LPs, and multi-asset holders, Earlyasset provides portfolio-level pricing across dozens of positions — uploadable via a schedule of investments — updated continuously as market conditions change.When shareholders are ready for liquidity, Earlyasset Capital steps in as a direct buyer for qualifying companies (Series B+ with strong revenue and growth). For situations outside that criteria, the platform's SecondaryOS product helps issuing companies manage bespoke secondary transactions directly — handling shareholder communications, cap table coordination, and share pricing for transactions of any size and stock class.Earlyasset removes the friction, opacity, and broker dependency that have historically made private market liquidity inaccessible for most shareholders. The result is a transparent, company-friendly process that puts shareholders in control of when and how they access the value they've earned. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Mar 31, 2026 | ||
| Maestrotech builds industrial automation systems for battery manufacturing, electronics production, and custom special-purpose machines. | $1.2M / Pre-Seed / Feb 11, 2026 | ||
| Developer of cloud-based AI software designed for bioprocess development and optimization. The company's products are used for parameter optimization and focus on automating tasks and improving efficiency within the bioprocess development field, automatically aligning online and offline data from virtually every bioreactor and offline datasource, enabling scientists to accelerate process optimization and scale-up with the power of AI. | $1.1M / Pre-Seed / Jun 01, 2025 | ||
| ZippedScript is an application programming interface system developer that specializes in automatically verifying educational details. ZippedScript is located in Toronto, Ontario. | $2.6M / Seed / Mar 06, 2025 | ||
| Besolo is the future-of-work platform fixing self-employment for high-earning solo professionals. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Sep 12, 2024 | ||
| Gamify integrates with CRM that is configurable to the team's needs. Sales data has a greater purpose than being used for micromanaging. Gamify data with leaderboards, spiffs, trophies, and a company currency! Every aspect of the sales cycle is incentivized within its mobile app to get the sales team invested in every moment of their day. | $2.5M / Seed / Mar 22, 2023 | ||
| equipifi provides buy now, pay later software for financial institutions. The company offers embedded payment and installment lending tools that integrate with digital banking platforms and core banking systems. Its platform enables banks and credit unions to provide pre-qualified financing offers, split-payment options, and short-term installmentloans through existing checking accounts and debit cards. equipifi also provides loan management, risk configuration, reporting, and customer engagement tools to support digital payment and lending programs. | $3M / Seed / Nov 03, 2021 | ||
| equipifi provides buy now, pay later software for financial institutions. The company offers embedded payment and installment lending tools that integrate with digital banking platforms and core banking systems. Its platform enables banks and credit unions to provide pre-qualified financing offers, split-payment options, and short-term installmentloans through existing checking accounts and debit cards. equipifi also provides loan management, risk configuration, reporting, and customer engagement tools to support digital payment and lending programs. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Sep 01, 2021 | ||
| As a managed marketplace, we leverage technology and 3rd parties to streamline service - the sweet spot between dated traditions and a modern approach. Currently, we connect vacation rental hosts with cleaners, but inevitably we’ll disrupt the service industry by creating the world’s largest cleaning company. | $715K / Seed / Oct 18, 2020 | ||
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Co-Investors
About New Stack Ventures
New Stack Ventures is a venture firm investing in startups that are pre-revenue, in pilots/PoCs, or early commercialization.
New Stack Ventures Contacts
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Austin Ju
Deal Lead
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J.R. Moran
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Nate Pierotti
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Nick Moran
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Zeke Trezise
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FAQ
What does Nick Moran invest in?
Nick Moran invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and SaaS startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 14 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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When did Nick Moran last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Nick Moran closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 14 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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