# Nicolas Pinto

> Nicolas Pinto is a seed investor at Apple backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Apple](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apple)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/nicolas-pinto/2/35/132
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/npinto
- Website: https://x.com/npinto

Nicolas Pinto is a seed investor at Apple in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Nicolas Pinto is the Deep Learning Ninja and Evangelist at Apple. He is a former Founder, Chief Scientist, and Technology Officer at Perceptio. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $125k–$6.8M |
| Pre-Seed | $1M–$1M |
| Series A | $7M–$8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 40% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 40% |
| Blockchain | 4 | 27% |
| SaaS | 2 | 13% |
| Analytics | 2 | 13% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 60% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 13% |
| Series A | 2 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 33% |
| France | 3 | 20% |
| Cayman Islands | 1 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Belfort | Belfort is specialising in technology that accelerates encrypted data processing, allowing it to be done in real time without ever decrypting the data. | $6M | Seed | Sep 25, 2025 |  |
| Keplr | Keplr is a non-custodial blockchain wallet designed for websites that let visitors engage with blockchain applications. | $5M | Seed | Jan 22, 2025 |  |
| Reppo Labs | Blockchain Network that connect Data Owners with AI Developers and AI agents through Programmable IP Co-ownership | $2.2M | Seed | Jan 17, 2025 |  |
| Prodia | Prodia is a multimedia design software and developer of artificial intelligence that creates APIs and images. | $15M | Seed | Jul 02, 2024 |  |
| Ordinox | Ordinox is a native cross-chain swapping infrastructure designed to deliver EVM DeFi liquidity to Ordinal Inscription-based coins. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 21, 2024 |  |
| l'école | l'école AI is a computer vision-focused development platform. Its objective is to enable humans to use AI with purpose to change the future, beginning with a focus on speeding advances in life sciences using computer vision. | $3M | Seed | Oct 26, 2023 |  |
| Koala Go | Re-inventing how we teach on the internet | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 25, 2021 |  |
| Anoma | A sovereign, proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that enables private, asset-agnostic cash and private bartering among any number of parties. | $6.8M |  | Jan 31, 2021 |  |
| Anoma | A sovereign, proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that enables private, asset-agnostic cash and private bartering among any number of parties. | $6.8M | Seed | Jan 31, 2021 |  |
| Photoroom | Photoroom is an AI-enabled image capturing app that lets users create studio-quality product pictures in seconds. The company offers to remove background, change the background, and showcase products in one click on iPhone and iPad for free, helping users to easily make changes to their images. | $125K | Seed | Aug 25, 2020 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CMS Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cms-holdings) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Anagram](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anagram-43bc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Electric Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/electric-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FBG Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fbg-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Apple

VC Fund · Cupertino, United States

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications.Apple provides many products and services, includingiPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores.Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation.Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine.The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

5 contacts available at Apple.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adrian Perica | Head of mergers and acquisitions | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adrian-perica |
| Eddy Cue | SVP of Services | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eddy-cue |
| Ed Ruth | Global Partnerships | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ed-ruth |
| Eitan Toledo | Senior Director, Program Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eitan-toledo |
| Jake Shapiro | Head of Creator Partnerships, Apple Podcasts | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jake-shapiro |

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## FAQ

### What does Nicolas Pinto invest in?

Nicolas Pinto invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 15 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 Pinto's check size?

Nicolas Pinto typically joins rounds of $125k–$6.8M at Seed, $1M–$1M at Pre-Seed and $7M–$8M 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 Nicolas Pinto participates in.

### When did Nicolas Pinto last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nicolas Pinto closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 15 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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