Nick Zaharias
Advisor at Field Check Group
Nick Zaharias
Advisor at Field Check Group
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Work Experience
Investor & Advisor
2017 - Current
280 CapMarkets is an innovation driven fixed income technology marketplace providing best execution support and price transparency to advisors, institutions and issuers. Our mission is to make the fixed income markets more efficient by empowering investment advisors and connecting market participants. 280’s cloud-native BondNav® platform improves market liquidity, providing better access and deeper markets while expanding distribution for municipal and corporate debt issuers. Headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in New York, Chicago, Santa Monica and Seattle, 280 is an experienced team of technologists and fixed income market veterans determined to improve bond market liquidity. 280 CapMarkets’ technology subsidiary, 280 Technologies, built the BondNav® platform. 280’s broker-dealer subsidiary, 280 Securities, combines the power of our expert information system with bond market expertise to negotiate price improvement for our clients.
Advisor
2020
Postal is an offline marketing platform that helps personalize, automate, and scale direct mail, internal and external events, branded company swag, and personalized gifts to drive better engagement with prospects, customers, partners, and employees. Postal has grown to over 150 paid customers since entering the market in 2020 and saw a 131% Q/Q ARR growth in Q1. Postal is supported by Mayfield who lead Series A and is now seeking a B round to execute on the massive market opportunity, multiple revenue streams, and strong tailwinds.
Investor & Advisor
2019
CaaMTech is improving the health and happiness of humankind by creating and optimizing psychedelic compounds and formulations through rigorous science and continuous innovation.
Investor
2019
Welcome helps companies create jaw dropping virtual events. We’re hiring! https://jobs.lever.co/welcome/23a9aeaa-36b0-4b1e-8cf4-319f22585f18
Investor & Advisor
2020
I invested in Benetic because I am excited to support a new company that is going to completely change how the retirement industry operates. After a lot of hard work by the entire team, I am excited to see the official launch of Benetic! Check it out: www.benetic.com
Managing Director
2014 - 2017
SignalFire has developed a cutting edge investment platform that leverages large scale technology infrastructure, institutional capital and our extensive network of world class product, engineering & strategic advisors to support entrepreneurs in building the next generation of breakout companies. While our primary mission is early stage venture investing, we are also a uniquely hybrid competitive intelligence firm that leverages our platform and our advisor network to the benefit of institutional investors , LPs, and corporate M&A teams. Our research team is responsible for developing actionable investment themes and deep competitive analysis focused at the point where the most dynamic private tech companies collide and compete with public tech.
Managing Partner
2003 - 2014
* Founder and Managing Director * Responsible for all Software & IT Services and consumer internet coverage * Leveraged industry domain knowledge and detailed company analysis to make investment recommendations to client base of hedge funds, mutual funds, and pension funds * Expanded relationships with sell-side, buy-side, and company management teams * A passionate leader & entrepreneur with two decades of experience in building innovative & high growth businesses * A strong network of meaningful relationships in Silicon Valley and Wall Street * Experienced in structuring and executing complex transactions and partnerships * Ability to bring raw innovation and ideas to market quickly by creating disruptive high growth businesses with particular emphasis on media, finance, internet, and emerging tech
Managing Director - Technology Research
2002 - 2003
Managed team of 20 research analysts covering the breadth of enterprise technology and consumer internet. Coverage spanned over 40 companies with responsibility for over 15 sector coverage reports each month.
VP of Western Region Sales
2001 - 2002
Built & managed team of 5 Account Executive and 3 sales engineers. Covalent was one of the first enterprise software vendors to build a viable business by extending the use of open-source software by making Apache enterprise-ready with a more secure, more manageable, and more reliable management framework.
Director of Business Development
1999 - 2000
Responsible for building distribution network for RealNames' groundbreaking Internet Keyword system that proved to be an early model for Google's Adword product. My group was responsible for a variety of partnerships including Microsoft, AltaVista, Lycos, and Google. The Google partnership was a groundbreaking deal that I personally conceptualized and negotiated on behalf of RealNames and that led to the first advertising ever placed on the Google search results page.
Education
Bachelor of Arts
1983 - 1987