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Nicholas Chirls
Partner at Asylum Ventures
Brooklyn, New York
Overview
Nicholas Chirls is a Partner at Asylum Ventures in Brooklyn, New York, with a background in financial modeling, entrepreneurship, and venture capital. Notable career highlights include serving as a Partner at Notation Capital and Head of Investments at betaworks, where he invested in companies like Celeri, ChargeLab, and Alectio.
Chirls specializes in investing in various sectors and stages, including EnergyTech, BioTech, and Seed capital, with a focus on supporting diverse founders and angel investors in New York City.
Work Experience
Partner
2024 - Current
Asylum is dedicated to the creative act of building companies. We believe founders and startups are artists, not assets.
Partner
2014
Notation Capital is a pre-seed venture capital firm based in Brooklyn, NY.
Head of Investments
2011 - 2014
Betaworks Ventures is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund.
Raised $50,950,000.00 from Notable Capital and DG VENTURES.
Head of Business Development
2010 - 2011
HappyFunCorp is a web / mobile development shop and incubator.
Co-Founder
2009 - 2011
TwoSeed provides community engagement platforms to companies and foundations.
Trader
2007 - 2009
Education
Master's Degree
2009 - 2010
BA
2003 - 2007