Nolan Gray
Founder & General Partner @ Defiance Capital
London, United Kingdom
Nolan Gray is an American Climate Tech entrepreneur based in London, United Kingdom. He is a member of Forbes 30 Under 30 and co-founder of Svea Solar, one of Europe's biggest Climate Tech companies. In addition, Nolan is an investor, board member, and advisor for multiple startups. Before moving to London, Nolan was an early employee and CMOat Jobscience, a San Francisco based SaaS company which was later sold to Bullhorn (owned by Vista Equity Partners) for $50 million.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (63%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (38%)
- SaaS 1 (13%)
- Sports 1 (13%)
- Fashion 1 (13%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 4 (50%)
- Seed 3 (38%)
- Funding Round 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 3 (38%)
- United Kingdom 3 (38%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Listen Labs is a platform that uses AI to conduct interviews and analyze qualitative data to help companies understand their customers. | Seed / Apr 23, 2025 | ||
| Phoebe is an agentic search tool for tech stack data. It helps engineering teams to troubleshoot many sorts of problems much faster, from minor bugs to major incidents. Phoebe can also initiate searches proactively to help anticipate and triage new issues. | Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2025 | ||
| The AI Receptionist for Insurance | Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2024 | ||
| Agentic Threat Intelligence | Seed / Jan 01, 2024 | ||
| Ribin (pronounced "ribbon") is currently operating in stealth mode. The company is on a mission to democratise college sports recruiting. There are 45 million youth athletes in the U.S. and over $4 billon worth of sports scholarships are handed out every year to youth athletes. That number continues to increase every year as collegesports become more popular/televised than some professional sports in America. The problem is there is no centralised database with normalised scouting reports for athletes and scouts; there's no place (like LinkedIn) for them to meet. Ribin's platform seeks to solve this problem. The company was founded in 2021 by ex-SaaS developers/execs who are also former NCAA athletes. The founders have successfully exited 2 companies and have over 18 years of combined experienced working at SaaS and sports-related software companies. | $65K / Pre-Seed / Apr 12, 2021 | ||
| Good Club is a sustainable grocery brand and retailer, revolutionising grocery shopping by wiping out waste and eliminating the environmental impact of everyday groceries. The company has recently launched reusable product packaging and delivery boxes that are collected from customers and cleaned for reuse.Founded in 2018 and headquartered inLondon, England, United Kingdom. | $962K / Dec 16, 2020 | ||
| Good Club is a sustainable grocery brand and retailer, revolutionising grocery shopping by wiping out waste and eliminating the environmental impact of everyday groceries. The company has recently launched reusable product packaging and delivery boxes that are collected from customers and cleaned for reuse.Founded in 2018 and headquartered inLondon, England, United Kingdom. | $1M / Seed / Dec 16, 2020 | ||
| Awareness, Action, Impact. inFocus is a platform that measures, reduces, and offsets carbon emissions for photo, film, events, and fashion shows, enabling carbon neutral or climate positive productions.inFocus is industry-specific, requires no prior carbon knowledge, is easy to use, and action-driven; meaning that anyone who uses the programcan make an instant, meaningful, and positive change. | Pre-Seed / Jul 05, 2020 |
Co-Investors
About Defiance Capital
Defiance Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm founded by Christian Dorffer and Nolan Gray. Defiance Capital invests in Enterprise AI, with a focus on the middleware and B2B application layers, the firm prioritises verticals where AI has immediate and transformative impact, namely defense and cybersecurity, food security, energy, finance,and data infrastructure.
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What does Nolan Gray invest in?
Nolan Gray invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 8 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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