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Nima Wedlake

Investor & Real Estate

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Nima Wedlake is a Managing Director at Thomvest with a strong background in venture capital and real estate, having held key roles in investment firms and serving on multiple boards. With experience in strategic consulting and financial modeling, Nima has successfully navigated the San Francisco Bay Area startup ecosystem, specializing in sectors like advertising, real estate/PropTech, security, and FinTech. Key highlights of Nima's career include holding positions as Managing Director at Thomvest and serving on the boards of companies like Wholesail and Willow Servicing, showcasing expertise in investment strategies and business development within the startup landscape.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Director

    2023 - Current

    Thomvest Ventures is a $750M AUM cross-stage venture capital fund based in San Francisco. At Thomvest, I lead our investment efforts in the real estate technology and financial technology verticals. Our our investments include Blend (NYSE:BLND), Carta, Kabbage (Acq. by NYSE:AXP), Ladder Life, SoFi and Tala. As part of my work in these areas, I regularly publish research that both informs our investment decisions and guides portfolio company strategy.

Thomvest Ventures provides companies with cross-stage venture capital fund.

  • Investor

    2024

Coast is a financial services platform that provides fleet fuel cards and expense management solutions for various industries.

Raised $165,500,000.00 from ICONIQ Growth, Accel, Avid Ventures, Insight Partners, Thomvest Ventures and Vesey Ventures.

  • Board Observer

    2022

    Willow Servicing was founded in 2021 with the vision of modernizing the core technology that orchestrates the collection of $18 trillion of U.S. mortgage debt. Willow’s cloud-based mortgage servicing platform automates routine servicing tasks and compliance, allowing small and large servicers to efficiently service loans in-house.

Willow Servicing provides mortgage servicing technology to automate mortgage servicing operations and compliance.

Raised $6,000,000.00 from Global Asset Capital, Webb Investment Network, Thomvest Ventures, TMC Emerging Technology Fund and Zigg Capital.

  • Investor

    2021

Empowering real estate investors to thrive

Raised $7,900,000.00 from Gary Marino and Goodwater Capital.

  • Board Member

    2024

    Wholesail is building a trading network to modernize payment and communication between wholesale buyers and sellers. The company’s initial industry focus is on building a network effect driven payment business amongst producers, distributors, restaurants, grocers and other retailers in the highly fragmented US food and beverage distribution market.

Wholesail modernizes the invoicing and payment process for food distributors and their buyers.

Raised $22,585,494.00 from Quiet Capital and Rose Park Advisors.

  • Board Observer

    2017

    Singular is a unified marketing analytics platform delivers attribution, cost aggregation, creative reporting & workflow automation.

Singular, a marketing intelligence platform, unifies marketing analytics, giving marketers actionable insights from previously siloed data

Raised $50,000,000.00 from DCM Ventures, Method Capital, General Catalyst, Norwest Venture Partners, Translink Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Titanium Ventures.

  • Principal

    2018 - 2023

Thomvest Ventures provides companies with cross-stage venture capital fund.

  • Board Observer

    2016 - 2019

    Vungle is the leading in-app video platform for performance marketers. Vungle is trusted by 50,000+ mobile apps worldwide, including top publishers such as Rovio, Supercell, Jam City, Zynga and Outfit7.

Vungle transforms how people discover and experience apps that delivers the highest value users through engaging video ads.

Raised $25,500,000.00 from Seven Peaks Ventures, AngelPad, Crosslink Capital, Google Ventures, Aol Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Thomvest Ventures and Uncork Capital.

  • Senior Associate

    2015 - 2017

Thomvest Ventures provides companies with cross-stage venture capital fund.

  • Associate Consultant

    2011 - 2014

    ZS Associates is a management consulting firm with a focus on data-driven sales and marketing client engagements. While at ZS, I led several market research projects for consumer software and biotechnology clients, including survey design, fielding and analysis of results. I was promoted to Associate Consultant in my second year at the firm.

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