Nicole Williams
Investor at Compound. If you're working on early stage frontier tech
Nicole Williams
Investor at Compound. If you're working on early stage frontier tech
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Investor
2020 - 2022
Investing in frontier technology at the seed stage. Investments: https://compound.vc/portfolio & https://crypto.compound.vc/ Investment theses: shorturl.at/hpvxO
Deep Tech Vertical Co-Lead
2021 - 2022
Bringing deep tech investors together to develop investment theses. https://www.evca.org/team
Program Director: Artificially Intelligent Learning Assistant Initiative
2017 - 2019
Modeled after DARPA, WARPA is one of the most unique Science+Entrepreneurship organizations in the USA. We have worked with NASA, ARPA-E, NIH, etc. for advancement of traditionally under-represented groups in cutting-edge STEM+Entrepreneurship domains ranging from Energy, Space, Astronomy, Computational Neuroscience, Industrial Additive Manufacturing, Automation, Transportation, and Nuclear Weapons Safety. - Led the Artificially Intelligent Learning Agent program in conjunction with XEROX PARC - Fostered educational partnership relationships with Qatar, UN, and Finland embassies - Researched cognitive architectures & foundational educational theory - Managed intern hiring process, ultimately hiring two and managing one
Independent Market and Research Consultant
2017 - 2019
Carried out a wide variety of contract and one-off consulting, including: - Traveled to private equity events informing angel investor on AI & software-related investments - Strategic partnership relationship management, advising founders on product positioning and demographic targets
Marketing Services
2017 - 2017
I worked at Capterra (a Gartner Company) and completed a wide variety of initiatives, some of which include: - Designed 45+ software landing pages for business owners to optimize their campaign for conversions (assisted small businesses in copy editing & target market optimization) - Designed 5+ collateral pages for Capterra & Gartner Digital Markets to educate vendors on their marketing campaigns - Researched & presented to team on artificial intelligence in the marketing industry - Gained insight and understanding of business & marketing strategy, specifically the challenges faced after an acquisition
NGO Co-Founder and Executive Director
2015 - 2017
The Angelos Ministry is a 501c3 non-profit organization I founded with three other students at my high school. Angelos raises funds to build a school in At'fih, a small town in Middle Egypt, and is helping to establish new curriculum and hire trusted local teachers. I primarily coordinated aspects such as: - Empowered & educated over 5,000 people on how to take action - Cohesive branding - Inbound marketing - International curriculum establishment
Private Tutor
2014 - 2016
Education
Data Science
2019 - 2020
College Preperatory
2004 - 2016