# Nicolas Berggruen

> Nicolas Berggruen is a seed investor at Berggruen Institute backing Software. See 34 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Berggruen Institute](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/berggruen-institute)
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 34
- Last investment: Sep 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-berggruen
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/NBerggruen
- Website: https://www.berggruen.org/people/nicolas-berggruen/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Nicolas-Berggruen/100058070318168/

Nicolas Berggruen is a seed investor at Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Nicolas Berggruen is the Founder and Chairman of the Berggruen Institute. He attended New York University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $850k–$4.5M |
| Series A | $7M–$25M |
| Series B | $25M–$26M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 15 | 44% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 24% |
| Machine Learning | 6 | 18% |
| SaaS | 5 | 15% |
| Logistics | 4 | 12% |

78 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 50% |
| Series A | 8 | 24% |
| Series B | 2 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 6% |
| Angel | 1 | 3% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 20 | 59% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 18% |
| Brazil | 1 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |
| Ireland | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Data Foundation | Powering web3 narrative universes via story legos | $25M | Series A | Sep 06, 2023 |  |
| iLoF | iLoF - Intelligent Lab on Fiber is a patented photonics and Artificial Intelligence system identifies unique features of various gold-standard biomarkers, capturing their signature on a cloud-based library. | $4.1M |  | Jul 28, 2022 |  |
| iLoF | iLoF - Intelligent Lab on Fiber is a patented photonics and Artificial Intelligence system identifies unique features of various gold-standard biomarkers, capturing their signature on a cloud-based library. | $4.1M | Seed | Jul 28, 2022 |  |
| Helm.ai | Helm.ai develops next-generation AI software for ADAS, autonomous driving, and robotics automation. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, the company reimagines AI software development to make scalable autonomous driving a reality. Helm.ai offers full-stack real-time AI solutions, including deep neural networks for highway andurban driving, end-to-end autonomous systems, and development and validation tools powered by Deep Teaching™ and generative AI. The company collaborates with global automakers on production-bound projects. | $26M | Series B | Nov 16, 2021 |  |
| Dance | Dance is an e-bike subscription service where users pay a monthly fee that covers their bikes and provides an all-inclusive support package. The subscription includes a bike concierge, maintenance, and theft replacement insurance, via the company’s own hardware and software which allows for fast repairs through its warehouse and logistics setup.Through its subscription service, they want to make the e-bike the primary way people move about cities. The company's electric bike transforms their daily commute from frustration to joy. Save time with no traffic jams, no waiting for departures, no searching for parking, and all without even breaking a sweat. Its frictionless subscription model includes a fully assembled, state of the art e-bike delivered to their door within 24 hours.Dance is based in Berlin, Germany. | $19.3M | Series A | Sep 28, 2021 |  |
| Dance | Dance is an e-bike subscription service where users pay a monthly fee that covers their bikes and provides an all-inclusive support package. The subscription includes a bike concierge, maintenance, and theft replacement insurance, via the company’s own hardware and software which allows for fast repairs through its warehouse and logistics setup.Through its subscription service, they want to make the e-bike the primary way people move about cities. The company's electric bike transforms their daily commute from frustration to joy. Save time with no traffic jams, no waiting for departures, no searching for parking, and all without even breaking a sweat. Its frictionless subscription model includes a fully assembled, state of the art e-bike delivered to their door within 24 hours.Dance is based in Berlin, Germany. | $17.5M |  | Sep 27, 2021 |  |
| Helm.ai | Helm.ai develops next-generation AI software for ADAS, autonomous driving, and robotics automation. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, the company reimagines AI software development to make scalable autonomous driving a reality. Helm.ai offers full-stack real-time AI solutions, including deep neural networks for highway andurban driving, end-to-end autonomous systems, and development and validation tools powered by Deep Teaching™ and generative AI. The company collaborates with global automakers on production-bound projects. | $13M | Seed | Mar 25, 2020 |  |
| Agora | Agora is a materials management platform for construction companies. It is a digital purchasing platform for electrical contractors allowing the field, office, warehouse, and vendors to collaborate on one platform, streamlining the purchasing process, including, requisitions, processing POs, and delivery tracking.It was founded in 2018 and isbased in San Francisco, California. | $4.2M | Seed | Oct 12, 2018 |  |
| Kojo | Kojo provides a cloud-based software solution for the construction industry that manages the procurement, tracking, receipt, and payment of materials. It connects field teams, purchasing, warehouse, accounting, and vendor partners to centralize visibility into material costs, availability, and workflows. The platform integrates with existing ERPand project management tools to sync data across systems and reduce manual data entry. Features include mobile requisitioning, warehouse inventory tracking, tool tracking, and invoice processing. The mission is to help contractors modernize procurement workflows in order to gain more control over outcomes, increase sustainability, and reduce waste. | $4.2M | Seed | Oct 12, 2018 |  |
| Clara Health | Clara is a software platform that streamlines the process of participating in clinical trials. The platform helps patients to find and connect with clinical trials. | $2.2M | Seed | Feb 20, 2018 |  |

10 of 34 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Abstract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-list-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Morado Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morado-ventures-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Social Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/social-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Acequia Capital (AceCap)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acequia-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alter Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alter-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Berggruen Institute

VC Fund · Santa Monica, United States

The Berggruen Institute is dedicated to the design and implementation of new ideas of good governance -- drawing from practices in both East and West -- that can be brought to bear on the common challenges of globalization in the 21st century.They are an independent, non-partisan “think and action tank” that engages cutting edge entrepreneurs,global thinkers and political leaders from around the world as key participants in their projects.The great transition of their time is from American-led globalization 1.0 to the interdependence of plural identities that characterizes globalization 2.0 as the dominance of the West recedes with the rise of the rest. A political and cultural awakening, amplified by social media, is part and parcel of this shift, and good governance must respond by devolving power and involving citizens more meaningfully in governing their communities. At the same time, they believe that accountable institutions must be created that can competently manage the global links of interdependence.

4 contacts available at Berggruen Institute.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nicolas Berggruen | Chairman and Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicolas-berggruen |
| Alexander Görlach | Senior Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-g%C3%B6rlach |
| Bing Song | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bing-song |
| Dawn Nakagawa | Executive Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dawn-nakagawa |

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## FAQ

### What does Nicolas Berggruen invest in?

Nicolas Berggruen invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 34 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 Nicolas Berggruen's check size?

Nicolas Berggruen typically joins rounds of $850k–$4.5M at Seed, $7M–$25M at Series A and $25M–$26M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Nicolas Berggruen participates in.

### When did Nicolas Berggruen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nicolas Berggruen closed in Sep 2023. Shizune tracks 34 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?

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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