Nicholas Adams
Managing Partner at Differential Ventures
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner and co-founder
2017 - Current
Differential is a NYC-based seed-stage VC fund investing in AI, machine learning, and data science focused startups that is led by experienced data scientists and startup operators. Our portfolio companies are using advanced engineering solutions to capture the full value of the world's data.
Differential Ventures is a seed-stage vc fund that invests in b2b data-oriented technology solutions.
Board Member
2024
Agnostiq is building , a next-generation, cloud-agnostic accelerated computing platform, allowing startups and enterprises to build any AI or HPC applications in a simple, scalable, and cost-effective way
Board Observer
2024
FlowFi’s mission is to help companies operate at peak financial performance.
FlowFi’s mission is to help companies operate at peak financial performance.
Raised $9,000,000.00 from Precursor Ventures, Cooley, 14Peaks Capital, Special Ventures, Differential Ventures, Parade Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Parade Ventures, 14Peaks Capital and Nate Cavanaugh.
Board Observer
2024
World's first AI-Driven Web3 SecOps Platform for Security, Intelligence, Fraud, Risk, and Compliance.
Board Member
2022
Electronic engineering teams use Circuit Mind's intelligent platform to automatically select optimal components, generate and redesign candidate schematics in seconds, with fewer errors.
Board Observer
2020
Building privacy into all your data workflows is hard. Private AI's de-identification suite enables customers to de-identify text, image, and video data with minimal code.
Board Member
2023
Helping companies unlock the value of Generative AI with guardrails to mitigate risk.
Vera develops an assessment platform to identify and address risks in artificial intelligence and machine learning models.
Raised $2,700,000.00 from Betaworks, SaaS Ventures, Nkechi Iregbulem, Greycroft, Differential Ventures, Essence VC and Everywhere Ventures.
Board Member
2020
Knockri is an A.I. video-based skills assessment tool that reduces hiring bias and eliminates unsuccessful interviews.
Board Observer
2022
Golioth provides turnkey IoT cloud services with unmatched levels of choice in what matters most to hardware developers: flexibility in hardware, embedded software, messaging protocols, and connectivity. Golioth supports a range of open IoT protocols and connectivity for communication, providing security by default.
Golioth is an IoT platform that makes it easy to connect hardware to the cloud.
Raised $7,099,998.00 from MongoDB Ventures, Blackhorn Ventures, Unpopular Ventures, Lorimer Ventures, Zetta Venture Partners and Differential Ventures.
Investor, Board Member
2022
Retrocausal is an intelligence augmentation system that helps manufacturing workers avoid assembly mistakes, be more efficient at their daily jobs, and improve the processes they drive.
Retrocausal gives superpowers to manufacturing assembly operators, line leaders, and lean engineers with its Generative AI Copilots.
Raised $9,860,000.00 from Indicator Ventures, Differential Ventures, SaaS Ventures, Argon Ventures, One Way Ventures, Incubate Fund, Techstars, Stage Venture Partners, Hypertherm Ventures and AVV.